grist: "I have been reading Sean Casten's post on the economics of carbon pricing with interest. After some thought, here's my take. A carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system will, without question, raise the price of energy, at least in the short term. In the long-term, it may well be that technological developments lead us to new energy sources that turn out to be cheaper than anything we have today. But that's pure speculation."
Cheaper energy is not the whole picture in the conversation about policy around cap and trade or a carbon tax. It may be that the cost of reducing carbon in the atmosphere should be included in the cost of energy.
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