Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121208:13:47:00
The same thing our politics around integrated. we don't have a government or democracy to bring those two policy strands together. part is the political power of the fossil fuels industry. between 1998 and 2012 the combined spending disclosed lobbying spending of the oil and gas industry and electric utility industry 3.5 billion dollars. pretty much top of the chart. they have a blocking position in congress. even when you had a democratic house in 2006 and a democratic presidency in 2008, we couldn't get a price on carbon enacted, even a he relatively modest one. we had a recession. there wer...
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