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Climate One

C1 Revue: Fuel Forward

Climate One

Climate One

Earth Sciences, News Commentary, Science, Social Sciences, News

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Low gas prices are pumping up sales of SUVs and trucks. And since transportation accounts for almost a third of America’s greenhouse gasses, that’s bad news for the climate. But America is awash in big ideas for how to create a healthy economy and healthy communities. One idea is to put a price on carbon. Everyone from oil companies to environmentalists are talking about what might happen if consumers paid the real price for coal and gasoline. Some think it just might boost the economy while also trimming carbon pollution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.2

Hey, podcast listeners. This is Greg Dalton.

0:33.1

You're listening to our new C1 review,

0:35.2

a podcast connecting highlights from three shows.

0:38.4

Thanks for joining our conversation.

0:47.7

This is Climate One, a conversation about powering America's future. I'm Greg Dalton.

0:56.7

Today we're looking at what cheap oil means for America and the climate that supports the economy. The reduction in oil price generally is a

1:03.7

marvelous boon. I think it adds something like $40 billion to our GDP. But we're also seeing the

1:09.4

new low prices lead to a surge in demand for SUVs again.

1:13.2

Ideas are bubbling up for how to help our pocketbooks and protect the land, air, and oceans

1:18.1

at the same time. One way is to pay for emitting carbon pollution. If we think that policies are

1:24.9

coming on climate change, putting a price on carbon is the most

1:28.8

cost effective, the most efficient, the most direct way to do this.

1:31.9

Up next on Climate One.

1:51.7

Climate One is changing the conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.

1:52.8

I'm Greg Dalton.

2:06.2

These Climate One conversations were recorded before a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, a nonprofit and non-partisan public forum in San Francisco.

2:19.3

Low gas prices are pumping up sales of SUVs and trucks, and for the first time in a decade, Americans drove more miles last year than the year before.

2:22.3

Since transportation accounts for almost a third of America's greenhouse gases, that's

2:27.3

bad news for the climate.

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