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Ep. 239 Mike Thiessen Interviews Bob Murphy on Climate Economics and the Fate of the US Empire

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Why We Shouldn't Use Fossil Fuels

There's lots of reasons right now that humanity relies so much on fossil fuels. And so if you just all of a sudden tried to force me ont trye to wean them off of it in the matter of a couple of decades, there's a consequence,. That can't produce as much, we can't be transported as easily if we use alternatives that we wouldn't have voluntarily chosen. N so that, so that, ma, that's the basic explanation. I mean, this way, the whole, the whole rationale of taxing carbon is to make carbon intensive energy sources expensive for businesses and households.

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