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Plan B minus

Posted on August 07, 2008

By Ryan AventJoe Romm isn't off the wagon in calling Barack Obama's latest energy policy outline [PDF], easily the best energy plan ever put forward by a nominee of either party, particularly given its release during a general campaign targeted at purple state voters. All the same, I found the plan to be ... a little meh. There are good things in there to be sure. I'm particularly happy that climate change features prominently and that he remains committed to cap-and-trade. The goodness of other proposals depends upon exactly how they'd be implemented. And the whole thing suffers from ki...

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