federal government

“California, and particularly Los Angeles, is one of the major sources of oil for the Pacific Fleet. So the federal war mobilization involves mobilizing the oil industry in Los Angeles, particularly to fuel the Pacific fleet. And what that looks like is federal…”

“That will absolutely be a failure, right? If that's all we do, you don't get to the best case. All you get is dollars out the door and whatever dollars, like, you know succeed. Like, you don't actually catalyze gigaton scale climate reduction. Because no matte…”

“The IRA doesn't work without private parties that are willing to buy these credits, right? The government doesn't actually write us a check.”

“If people want to stop a project, they should stop a project with a local permit in the local jurisdiction. They should not be using the federal government to stop projects.”

“But the trick is that that clause At least as it's generally been written, requires the government to reimburse the grantee or the vendor, et cetera, for any work done to date until the cancellation that is within budget.”