[JumpCrisscross]

> Curious to hear someone in favor of this

We have lots of natural gas, it burns cleaner than coal, and we're strongly embracing LNG exports. Europe doesn't have much natural gas, which would make nuclear a good counterpart to solar, but Greenpeace doesn't like that, so they'll wind up buying our gas.

(The best I can come up with for these specific rule changes is trashing the market for carbon credits neuters a significant cash stream for Tesla.)

[throwaway4220]

I have heard that LNG has a larger carbon footprint than coal vs natural gas which is much better

[JumpCrisscross]

> have heard that LNG has a larger carbon footprint than coal

Where? Given we're talking about energy transport, any analysis will be sensitive to the assumptions made about the carbon intensity of said transport.

[maxerickson]

You also lose ~5% of the energy liquefying it (or more).

Note that their comparison appears to be LNG vs conventional natural gas. So burning gas produced in Pennsylvania in Germany vs burning it it Pennsylvania.