{"id":26034,"date":"2022-04-29T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26034"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:30:31","slug":"image-of-the-day-high-cost-of-green-energy-explains-leftist-calls-for-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26034\/image-of-the-day-high-cost-of-green-energy-explains-leftist-calls-for-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  High Cost of &#8220;Green&#8221; Energy Explains Leftist Calls for Carbon Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our Liberty Update this week, CFIF highlights a bizarre new crony capitalist idea to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/44-energy-and-environment\/5901-crony-capitalists-propose-a-carbon-tax-to-reduce-energy-costs-\">a carbon tax<\/a> that some entrenched interests in Washington, D.C., have begun to advocate.\u00a0 Even more bizarrely, they sell their proposal to begin taxing energy as a way to <em>reduce<\/em> energy costs.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t make this up.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of economist <a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/55218dd0cff7\/unleash-prosperity-hotline-866632?e=313568bbd7\">Stephen Moore<\/a>, we have an illustration that helps explain their motivation.\u00a0 Namely, &#8220;green&#8221; energy is far more expensive than more efficient fuel sources.\u00a0 Accordingly, they need to tax those more efficient fuel sources in order to make their &#8220;green&#8221; energy boondoggles more acceptable by comparison:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96\/images\/59c6d8f7-2977-ad91-e09c-f911bf487543.png\" alt=\"Why Climate Activists Want a New Carbon Tax\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/> Why Climate Extremists Want a New Carbon Tax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Liberty Update this week, CFIF highlights a bizarre new crony capitalist idea to introduce a carbon tax that some entrenched interests in Washington, D.C., have begun to advocate.\u00a0 Even more bizarrely, they sell their proposal to begin taxing energy as a way to reduce energy costs.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t make this up. Courtesy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5179,4400,26,195,196,205,105],"class_list":["post-26034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-tax","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26035,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}