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Recent Posts by Richard Muller

• Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?

Recent Comments by Richard Muller

• "Unless a discussion of global warming includes China, it is not on topic.  Any effort we take in the United States to reduce emissions is not going to"
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• "Fee and dividend is not going to work.  Imagine complete success: fee and dividend eliminates coal.  Then there is no money to distribute to the poor "
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "Mr. Miller, You are right that payments for externalities are inevitable, but alas, they can be deferred, and that is what is happening.  When you "
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "Unfortunately, renewables are cost competitive with coal only if you increase the cost of coal by including the externalities, e.g. through a carbon t"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "I agree with virtually everything you say.  But on one point, cost, we have to recognize that it is a very important issue for China. I do not believe"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "Some environmental organizations lump all fossil fuels together under the label "they cause the problem."  Such simplistic approaches make appeal to t"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "The article that says that natural gas vehicles are bad for the environment is guilty of what I call "pessimism bias", and also "optimism bias."  It a"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "By "far superior" I mean that it emits half to one-third of the greenhouse gases of the coal it replaces.  That means that instead of 30 to 50 years b"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "We can certainly stop imports of fuel to China and elsewhere in the developing world, but that could slow their economic growth and lead them to use e"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?
• "Why don't we all convert to natural gas autos?  In San Francisco, half of the taxis already are converted.  They did that to save money; the taxi driv"
  Can Shale Gas Limit Air Pollution?