How to Address Energy Inflation
All economic policy is climate policy, as Roosevelt’s Suzanne Kahn and Rhiana Gunn-Wright argue in the foreword of a new series of briefs.
"Moving forward thus requires not only ending our dependence on fossil fuels but moving beyond neoliberalism,” they write.
In the first brief of the series, Roosevelt’s Lauren Melodia and Kristina Karlsson explain how to do both, and equitably address price swings in gas and utilities: a whole-of-government energy transition.
"In launching a green transition, the federal government has the opportunity to not only reduce price pressures on low-income, Black, and Latinx households, but to proactively reinvest in communities that have historically faced the worst of climate change and of white supremacist policy,” Melodia and Karlsson write.
"The faster we transform our energy infrastructure, the quicker we will be able to experience the relief that price stability of renewable energy sources can provide.”
Read more in “Energy Price Stability: The Peril of Fossil Fuels and the Promise of Renewables.” And watch this space over the next few weeks for more in the series.
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