Sentences with phrase «about carbon taxes»

The main concern we hear about a carbon tax is economic.

Quick answers to 32 key questions about carbon taxes, including why they're needed to prevent climate catastrophe and how to make them fair.

Oil companies don't care about carbon taxes because they will simply incorporate the costs into what consumers pay.

They did say negative things about the carbon tax in Australia when it was still in place.

- nod empathically to everything your interlocutor needs to say about carbon taxes while keeping your hands crossed;

Alberta's NDP government simply lied to Albertans about their carbon tax.

There seems to be a noticeable murmur around town about a carbon tax — a tax on the amount of carbon dioxide that is released upon generating a unit of energy.

Stéphane Dion, the most environmentally sensitive federal Liberal leader in history, mused about a carbon tax early this month, but reversed gears just one day later.

Now, given that I don't believe that CO2 is causing AGW, what do you think I think about a carbon tax as a viable alternative to cap and trade?

A new survey suggests the conventional wisdom about carbon taxes is wrong: Promising to give people their money back with rebate checks isn't the best way to win public support.

I would be very happy if Exxon answered the way you did (especially that bit about a carbon tax!).

Also, why say anything favorable about carbon taxes when cap - and - trade is dead and there's no longer even a weak prudential case for supporting carbon taxes as the lesser evil?

Zhang, ZhongXiang and Baranzini, Andrea (2000): What do we know about carbon taxes?

What about a carbon tax?

My Tax Policy Center colleagues have written several recent papers about a carbon tax.

Political deals (sometimes dubbed «grand bargains») to win Republican support for carbon taxes, such as the proposal by Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Brian Schatz (HA) therefore risk alienating labor, low - income advocates and economic - justice activists, many of whom are already tepid at best about carbon tax legislation that doesn't directly invest considerable carbon revenues in a «just transition.»

Please send us your own favorite fallacies about carbon taxes.

last November 29, I asked Norquist about a carbon tax.

(We do not seem to feel the same way about carbon taxes.)

Last summer, Posner interned with the Climate Leadership Council, the group behind the Baker - Shultz plan, after he had read news articles about the carbon tax proposal.

«We also felt it was the right thing to do, given the general increasing public awareness about climate change, and discussion at various government levels about carbon taxes and other environmental issues.»

«Can I say to Australians the debate that they are hearing about a carbon tax is a debate about what Tony Abbott calls a carbon tax, which [it] will be for a limited period of time and then we will move to an emissions trading scheme.»

In 1989 the Board, for the first time in 16 years, amended the Association's goals and objectives to highlight a growing concern about carbon taxes and other fees which would increase energy costs to consumers — a concern as important to us as are environmental sensitivity and competition among energy suppliers.

From a theoretical perspective, if one thinks about carbon taxes or permit prices as «internalizing the externality» of the damage from greenhouse gases, compensating those harmed by the externality is a logical use of any such funds, at whatever level they are applied.

And about that carbon tax... In this episode, we dive into the provincial budgets of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

And about that carbon tax...

«We put out a letter to our customers and told them about the carbon tax effect and we were told quite clearly they were not going to accept price increases,» said Mr Northrop, who runs electrical cabling manufacturer Tycab Australia on Melbourne's outstkirts.

This is about the carbon tax or cap and trade.

Have you heard about a carbon tax (British Columbia and Australia) or cap and trade program (California)[Read more about carbon pricing], which could add a tax or fee onto your carbon emissions?

This follow - up question was partly inaudible, but must have been about a carbon tax: