He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution

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1. >Beyond being more efficient, green tech is simply cheaper to adopt. Consider Texas, which long ago divorced its electrical grid from the national grid so it can skirt federal regulation. The Lone Star State is the nation’s biggest oil and gas producer, but it gets 40 percent of its total energy from carbon-free sources. “Texas has the most solar and wind of any state, not because Republicans in Texas love renewables, but because it’s the cheapest form of electricity there,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, a climate research nonprofit. The next top three states for producing wind power — Iowa, Oklahoma, and Kansas — are red, too.

2. We know he won’t stop it. The problem is, he won’t support any kind of program to actually reach any meaningful goal like a carbon tax. In 4 years it will be too late.

3. Okay, but he can absolutely put tariffs on solar panels. You just watch the deployment grind to a halt when they cost 60% more.

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