Some of the biggest benefits of their plan is that “Under the Blueprint, every region of the country stands to save billion,” “The Blueprint keeps carbon prices low,” and “The economy grows by at least 81 percent by 2030 under the Blueprint.” The plan provided starts a slow, but necessary process towards the elimination of fossil fuels. The article talks about how “Blueprint policies reduce projected U.S. energy use by one-third by 2030” but while still having increases in “energy efficiency across the economy and reductions in car and truck travel drive down energy demand and carbon emission” (USCUSA). But perhaps the most mind-boggling thing in the article is that “The most expensive thing we can do is nothing,” meaning that if we just go about using fossil fuels the way we have been doing than the total cost of global warming in the United States could be as high as 3.6 percent of GDP by 2100” (Ackerman and Stanton 2008, qted in
Some of the biggest benefits of their plan is that “Under the Blueprint, every region of the country stands to save billion,” “The Blueprint keeps carbon prices low,” and “The economy grows by at least 81 percent by 2030 under the Blueprint.” The plan provided starts a slow, but necessary process towards the elimination of fossil fuels. The article talks about how “Blueprint policies reduce projected U.S. energy use by one-third by 2030” but while still having increases in “energy efficiency across the economy and reductions in car and truck travel drive down energy demand and carbon emission” (USCUSA). But perhaps the most mind-boggling thing in the article is that “The most expensive thing we can do is nothing,” meaning that if we just go about using fossil fuels the way we have been doing than the total cost of global warming in the United States could be as high as 3.6 percent of GDP by 2100” (Ackerman and Stanton 2008, qted in