<![CDATA[The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good]]>Dave Roberts, amazed that the Cap & Trade vs. Carbon Tax debate is still raging, sticks himself in the center of it:

In the short-term, complementary policies will spur the most action. The never-ending, chin-stroking carbon pricing debate perpetually overlooks this basic fact. (See: “Cap and Trade is Not Enough: Improving US Climate Policy” [PDF] from Carnegie Mellon.) What’s going to knock us off the status quo path in the next decade is, above all, new targets and standards for energy efficiency. Also: a renewable energy standard, a low-carbon fuel standard, smart-grid standards and funding, government procurement policies, direct government investment, etc. etc. These are the policies that could get things rolling immediately. And guess what?

The Waxman-Markey bill contains those complementary policies. Also, it exists.

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