{"id":1101,"date":"2009-09-18T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2009-09-18T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:39:14","slug":"yet-another-cbo-study-shows-small-costs-of-clean-energy-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/09\/18\/yet-another-cbo-study-shows-small-costs-of-clean-energy-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another CBO Study Shows Small Costs of Clean Energy Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released another report showing that  the costs from clean energy legislation would be small \u2013 and could help America  avoid the severe economic impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The report, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/doc.cfm?index=10573\">The Economic Effects of  Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions<\/a>,&#8221; is based on other previous  analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the CBO&#8217;s main findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Without policies to reduce carbon pollution, climate change will have negative  and possibly severe economic impacts on the United States.<\/li>\n<li>With legislation including a cap on carbon  pollution, the cost to consumers will be modest, and in line with previous  independent estimates.<\/li>\n<li>Low-income families (the lowest 20 percent of households) would see purchasing  power <em>rise<\/em>as a result of the  House-passed clean energy bill, thanks to the allocation provisions. Higher  income households would see a very small increase in costs.<\/li>\n<li>The reduction in household purchasing power,  taking into account compensation from the allocation provisions, would amount to  0.1-percent in 2012 and 0.8-percent in 2050, with an average of 0.4-percent over  the period 2012-2050.<\/li>\n<li>Nationally, the House legislation would reduce the U.S. gross domestic product  (GDP) &#8212; relative to the no-policy scenario &#8212;\u00a0 by 0.2 to 0.7 percent in 2020;  0.4 to 1.1 percent in 2030; 0.7 to 2 percent in 2040; and 1.1 to 3.4 percent in  2050. At the same time, <strong>real GDP is projected to be roughly two and a half times greater in 2050 than today under  either scenario<\/strong>. (Note that taking no  action would also reduce GDP growth, perhaps to a much greater degree, because  of the impacts of climate change.)<\/li>\n<li>Annual U.S. economic growth between 2010 and 2050  would be reduced by 0.03 to 0.09 percentage points, relative to a  business-as-usual growth rate of 2.4 percent. (Again, this \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d estimate assumes a  fictional world in which climate change does not  occur.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/103xx\/doc10327\/06-19-CapAndTradeCosts.pdf\">earlier CBO analysis<\/a> [PDF] of the House clean energy  bill found it would cost the average American household about as much as a  postage stamp per day. Other analyses by the Environmental Protection Agency and  the Department of Energy found similar results.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth study to  confirm the same conclusion (other ones: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/economics\/economicanalyses.html#hr2452\">EPA<\/a> [PDF], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/103xx\/doc10327\/06-19-CapAndTradeCosts.pdf\">CBO<\/a> [PDF], <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/08\/05\/eia-analysis-climate-bill-will-cut-america%E2%80%99s-oil-addiction-for-about-a-dime-a-day\/\">EIA<\/a>, ) \u2013 <strong>America can afford to pass legislation that will  make us more energy independent <\/strong>and will help fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we  can\u2019t afford not to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released another report showing that the costs from clean energy legislation would be small \u2013 and could help America avoid the severe economic impacts of climate change. 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