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Bill Cassidy: “Empirically, though, it is true, those States that emit the most carbon have the lowest energy costs, those that emit…”

On the recordApril 19, 2016
Empirically, though, it is true, those States that emit the most carbon have the lowest energy costs, those that emit the least have the highest, in some cases, triple, and if input--if your cost of energy is an input into your cost of production, intuitively, companies are going to move where that cost is lower.
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Bill Cassidy
Republican · Louisiana

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Cassidy argues that lower emissions states have higher energy costs, prompting industry relocation.

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