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“"....and introduce real competition into a fuel market ...."What prevents someone from creating and selling a competitive fuel for less?Does someone need to grant permission to do so? Is not the ability to make a lot of money by creating such a fuel not adequate in itself?And are you serioulsy suggesting there are enough arable acres of ground in the US to grow all the fuel industry ...”
“It is a false argument to compare to the USA experience: their reductions are caused by the switch to gas thanks to the present abundance of shale gas.Regarding the ETS: Don't blame the hammer for being a bad screwdriver! The ETS is doing exactly what you can expect from a cap-and-trade program. It decreases carbon emission following exactly the planned trajectory, for the lowest costs possible ...”