Former Republican Congress Member Begins Climate Initiative With Bold Predictions

Bob Inglis, a former Republican Member of Congress from South Carolina, has formed the Energy & Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University.   It’s an effort to advocate for the elimination of all subsidies for all fuels and the attachment of all costs to all fuels which Inglis says is the free-enterprise fix to energy and climate. If you correct the market distortions and make all fuels accountable for all of their costs, that will drive innovation and as a result reduce CO2 emissions.
 
Inglis thinks Congress will address Climate but not until 2015, 2016.   "After the next midterm. Either a new Republican president will, under market pressure, say to the country that we need a grand bargain to bring down rates and broaden the base, and a great way to do that is to shift off of taxing income and toward taxing CO2. Or it’s a second term for President Obama and the same market pressure pushing Congress and the president to do something.", Inglis stated.