The Paradox of Energy Efficiency

[joshcryer]

11. The paper cited is correct, but they're arguing it from a poison pill POV.

The author of the paper is a natural gas shill and in deep with the pollution industry. What is their solution?

Furthermore, if revenues collected through carbon pricing, energy taxes, or other efforts to raise energy prices are reinvested into economically productive ends, macroeconomic rebound effects may result, so the precise use of revenues will determine the efficacy of these policies in curbing rebound. Thus, carbon pricing policies (e.g., carbon taxes or cap and trade systems) and energy taxes offer potential tools to mitigate some or all of the energy demand rebound resulting from efficiency improvements, although implementing such policies faces practical challenges and will invariably encounter the political difficulties inherent to policy efforts that seek to impose energy price increases that will result in loss of economic welfare (ignoring potential benefits of avoided economic externalities)

Like the health care mandate, mention it as the only solution, it gets dismissed, and no solution is accepted by those who don't want to make the tough decisions. The author of the paper even goes to lengths to cite Climate Progresses Joe Romm's works in order to make the case.