Is it reasonable to be “unreasonably enthusiastic”?

Is it reasonable to be “unreasonably enthusiastic”?

by | May 16, 2024

When Governor Jay Inslee spoke at the Clean & Prosperous Institute’s Future of Carbon Policy Forum, he expressed his “unreasonable enthusiasm” for our state’s growing clean energy economy. He also spoke enthusiastically about the state’s “business leaders who...
Truth or Consequences

Truth or Consequences

by | Mar 20, 2024

The traditional spring ramp-up in gasoline prices is underway, providing context for understanding why persistent claims of large gasoline price impacts from the Climate Commitment Act are misleading. Gas prices are going up (as they always do this time of year) while...
The Real-World: Climate Commitment Act and Gas Prices

The Real-World: Climate Commitment Act and Gas Prices

by | Mar 18, 2024

Last September, in an article titled “Do Climate Commitment Act allowance prices get passed through to the pump?” we established a fact-based, dependable baseline expectation for monitoring the price signal of the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) at the pump. In that...
The Real-World: Climate Commitment Act and Gas Prices

As prices settle down, will the rhetoric follow?

by | Mar 12, 2024

Much has been made of the “high” auction costs of carbon allowances under the Climate Commitment Act during the first year of operations. Opponents of the CCA have reacted to auction settlement prices as a reason to amend or repeal the program. Early peaks in new...