Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In other words, even if you decisively commit to decarbonizing the price of fossil fuels remains very economically relevant all throughout the transition and is something you're going to need to worry about. Especially if the transition means nobody wants to invest in it. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think something that's not as widely understood as it should be is that even if you had a grid that's 85% renewables, swings in the price of whatever you're using for the last 15% (presumably gas) would still drive economy-wide energy prices. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In general, electrical grids are kind of weird and unintuitive so in any system it's going to be the price of your marginal power source (whether that's gas or hydrogen or pumped hydro or whatever else) that determines the wholesale electricity price. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 23, 2022 Hibernated