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The Green Dream of ‘Net Zero’ Carbon Emissions Is in Utterly Predictable Trouble

Working-class voters see Democrats piling on costs and preventing them from buying things they want. Net zero, indeed.

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Electric cars at a charging station at Sacramento, California, April 13, 2022. AP/Rich Pedroncelli
MICHAEL BARONE
MICHAEL BARONE

Net zero is in trouble. In utterly predictable trouble, in the king’s-wearing-no-clothes trouble.

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MICHAEL BARONE
MICHAEL BARONE

Mr. Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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