A Grab Bag With Vox's David Roberts
The Energy Gang
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Roberts, a staff writer at Vox, joins the gang to talk about a wide range of topics in the news.
How would a good carbon tax work? Are we fooling ourselves thinking Republicans will ever support one?
In the absence of a carbon price, is 100% renewable energy good politics? Is it good policy?
Should we bail out nuclear? Can renewables fill in the gap created by closing nuke plants?
What should we be hopeful about?
We’ll spend the second half of the show talking about electric buses. Jigar’s company, Generate Capital, is deploying $200 million for electric bus leases. Are we reaching a tipping point for transit?
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so we pulled David right out of bed to record this episode and I want to make sure that we properly rouse him. |
| 0:07.0 | So David, I'm going to go through some of the biggest stories you've covered in recent weeks, and I want you to give me a one-word description of each. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh my goodness, okay. |
| 0:15.0 | Carlos Kerbelo's carbon tax. |
| 0:17.0 | Eh. |
| 0:18.0 | Is that a word? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.0 | Electric buses. |
| 0:24.0 | Awesome. |
| 0:25.0 | Global coal consumption. |
| 0:26.0 | Not declining as fast as... |
| 0:29.0 | That's many words. |
| 0:30.0 | You said one word? |
| 0:31.0 | Way more than one word. Yeah, I don't have one word on that one. Mixed |
| 0:35.9 | ambiguous. Spanking your kids. Oh bad. I like how you have an article about |
| 0:42.4 | spanking wedged between electrify everything and Scott Pruitt. |
| 0:45.8 | I like to cover the waterfront. |
| 0:48.8 | Coming up, Renaissance man David Roberts joins us to talk about a wide range of energy stories and maybe we'll even |
| 0:54.2 | include some advice on how to discipline your kids. |
| 0:57.2 | First though, a little advice on your choice of solar panels. |
| 1:00.2 | Choose Mission Solar Energy. |
| 1:02.0 | Mission Solar is an American solar manufacturer with a 200 megawatt |
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