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The free market solves for things that we price. It often fails when externalities are not accounted for.

Ironically free market advocates often are against pricing in externalities through things like a carbon tax. If we priced carbon appropriately decades ago then the market would look drastically different today and this new zero-emissions requirement wouldn't be needed.



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