Gina Grad
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It's something everyone can agree on and it would work, so of course we're not going to do it.
Oh, it's abrochado o multado.
Click it or ticket.
You're going to keep that in?
He likes to survey his land.
Now, you might think, well, dealing with climate change is just going to require that we all pay more for energy.
That's what I used to think.
But consider the case of France.
France actually gets twice as much of its electricity from clean, zero-emission sources than does Germany.
And yet, France pays half as much, almost half as much for its electricity.
How can that be?
Well, you might have already anticipated the answer.
France gets most of its electricity from nuclear power, about 75% in total.
And nuclear just ends up being a lot more reliable, generating power 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for about 90% of the year.
We see this phenomenon show up at a global level.