But I just want to contrast this with the frame used by my friend Jim Manzi.

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My friend Jim Manzi explains here in detail what any honest MBA could tell you: these efforts, as such, are doomed.

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Conservative blogger Jim Manzi rightly points out that, with elasticities as low as these, a gas tax at any politically realistic level is not going to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

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