Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
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You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.
If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.
There's no such thing as low-cost fuels.
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.