Washington Post reporter Evan Halper lamented that the U.S. has not capitalized on the current energy crisis to hasten the transition to 'green energy'.
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy covers inflation and doubts about President Biden's leadership of the Democratic party moving into 2024 on 'Special Report.'Evan Halper, a business reporter for the Washington Post, argued Tuesday that"America is struggling to meet the moment," regarding a transition to green energy in the midst of rising gas prices. He called on U.S. policymakers to do more to prop up the so-called green economy.
driven by inflation threaten to make the energy transition an afterthought — potentially thwarting efforts to keep global temperature rise under 1.5 degrees Celsius." "The country’s lofty goals for all carbon pollution to be gone from the electricity sector by 2035 and for half the cars sold to be electric by 2030 are jeopardized by years of neglect of the electrical grid, regulatory hurdles that have set projects back years, and failures by Congress and policymakers to plan ahead," he wrote.
He further lamented,"The United States does not have a tax on carbon, nor a national cap-and-trade program that would reorient markets toward lowering emissions."
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