For the last decade, California has waged a crusade to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases in the name of fighting climate change.
The state has set specific reduction goals, and spent many billions of dollars, in both taxes and added consumer costs, to achieve them.
Early on, we saw sharp reductions, but they were low-hanging fruit, achieved mostly by compelling utilities to replace carbon-based power generation such as coal and natural gas with “renewables,” chiefly wind and solar.
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