$4.00 Per Gallon Gasoline and Climate Ch

This week I was inspired to write about the common solutions to high fossil energy prices and climate change, and the column was picked up by the progressive news service, Common Dreams. You can read the whole column there. Here's a teaser:

$4.00 per Gallon Gasoline and Climate Change Both Call for the Same Solution: Collective Investment in Clean Energy
by Elizabeth Sawin

“What do you have to say about global warming to the whole segment of Americans who are just waking up to energy issues with $4.00 per gallon gasoline?”

That question came from the audience during a workshop on climate change I led recently.

There is an assumption behind this question, one that seemed to be everywhere I turned last week — in the press, on talk radio, and even on the floor of the US Senate. The assumption goes like this: now that energy prices are rising we can’t afford to charge the costs of greenhouse gas pollution because that would place an unacceptable burden on people already struggling to meet high energy costs.