Your Questions Answered: The Politics Edition
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What’s the optimal way to spend money raised by a carbon tax?
How should climate play in Florida’s big toss-up Congressional race?
What’s the best energy platform for gubernatorial candidates?
This week: your questions answered. We got a bunch of queries from listeners about politics — so that’s the direction we’re headed. We'll discuss what these individual stories tell us about nationwide elections in 2018.
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- Mother Jones: The Illinois Governor’s Race Is Poised to Become the Most Expensive in History
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| 0:34.7 | I'm Stephen Lacy, welcome. |
| 0:36.1 | What's the optimal way to spend money from a carbon tax? How should climate play in Florida's big toss-up congressional race? |
| 0:48.0 | What's the best energy platform for gubernatorial candidates in Illinois? |
| 0:52.0 | This week, your questions answered. We got a bunch |
| 0:54.8 | of queries from listeners about politics so that's the direction we're headed and |
| 0:58.5 | they tell us a lot about how energy and climate may factor into the 2018 race. I think I can hear |
| 1:04.9 | Catherine rubbing her hands together with Glee, a policy and politics show that's |
| 1:08.8 | your jam. Yeah totally, super psyched about this and I thought it was it was pretty interesting that so many people called in with questions about politics |
| 1:16.7 | While speaking of politics you were in Des Moines Iowa this week |
| 1:20.2 | Are you running for president? |
| 1:27.0 | No, but I'm running as a champion of Des Moines, Iowa. It was a really nice place to visit. |
| 1:29.0 | It is. |
| 1:30.0 | I love Des Moines. |
| 1:31.0 | That Catherine is Catherine Hamilton. |
| 1:32.0 | She's the chair of 38 North Solutions and not yet |
| 1:35.4 | Announcing her candidacy for President. She's with us from Washington DC |
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