“Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.”
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In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.