Letter: Support clean energy transition

According to Reuters, Exxon sees the carbon capture and storage market growing to $4 trillion by 2050.

In other words, we will be paying Exxon to remove the pollution from the air that we are currently putting into the air from our tailpipes and gas furnaces. That money will come from us and from our children.

Can we afford that while also paying to repair bridges wiped out by extreme floods and to rebuild communities lost to wildfires and hurricanes?

It will be far cheaper to support programs and technologies that reduce emissions, such as transit-oriented development, walkable communities, solar photovoltaics, heat pumps, energy storage systems and electric vehicles.

Solar photovoltaics can be used to charge electric vehicles and both technologies will get cheaper as people learn by doing.

The Climate Commitment Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are necessary to accelerate those developments. On the other hand, the oil and gas industries are using the hope that carbon capture and storage will someday be affordable to justify pollution as usual. Support the clean energy transition, not dirty energy.