<div dir="ltr">In case anyone is interested in more on Big Oil's call for a price on carbon, here's my article for Nature from the summer, reporting from the World Gas Conference in Paris. The companies were explicitly calling for a price on carbon to help natural gas beat coal.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/natural-gas-stands-to-get-a-boost-from-carbon-tax-1.17705">http://www.nature.com/news/natural-gas-stands-to-get-a-boost-from-carbon-tax-1.17705</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The big question is: how high of a price on carbon? Probably they'd want a price just high enough to push out coal, but not high enough to help renewables or efficiency displace natural gas.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peakoil-request@act-peakoil.org" target="_blank">peakoil-request@act-peakoil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Peakoil mailing list submissions to<br>
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