Sentences with phrase «about fuel taxes»

And of course, neither party will do anything about fuel taxes and emissions from the transportation sector.

Not exact matches

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

An omnibus appropriations package, steel tariffs, regulatory work on the new tax law and general uncertainty about the nation's direction on policy and governing fueled K Street business during the first three months of this year.

Checks by citifmonline.com indicate that Ghanaians are not enjoying a drastic fall in fuel prices because taxes on fuel alone constitute about 70 % of the cost.

Twitter loves controversy, and this week there was no shortage (pardon the pun) of things to complain about — tax on pasties, a panic about fuel, and George Galloway.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

When they first talked about road pricing, they also talked about cutting road fuel taxes at the same time.

The Greens make no bones about who will pay for it — they will introduce a 2 % wealth tax on the top 1 %; a Robin Hood tax on financial transactions; increase corporation tax from 20 % to 30 %; increase fuel duty on aviation; impose an additional 60 % top rate income tax band and a plethora of other measures.

But that's irrelevant to the spirit of the question, since (1) Democratic politicians in fossil fuel states pretty much do the same thing (See West Virginia's Democrat Manchin); and (2) Such behavior is really industry agnostic, and every politician of every party whose constituents are over-represented in a particular industry will of course behave the same way about competing disruptive industry; and (3) The main opposition is not on alternative energy per se, but on measures to tax / disrupt fossil fuel one.

They point to the VAT rise in 2011 which increased thetotal tax take on fuel to about 60 % of the pump price.

Osborne says he inherited an escalator, but the coalition did not immediately say that it would cut fuel duty — its words about putting more of the tax burden on to pollutants suggested the reverse.

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Hassan Tampuli, at a press conference on Wednesday, gave a litany of reasons why the about ten taxes and margins on fuel prices could not be taken off.

Ed Balls told the party conference in Manchester about plans including cutting the winter fuel allowance for wealthier pensioners, keeping the the benefit cap, child benefit rising by 1 %, bringing back a 50p tax rate, and introducing a mansion tax.

And if we really want to get serious about climate change and other environmental ills, we might consider taxing all fossil fuels, which are too cheap given the health costs they impose.

THE DEBATE about taxes on fossil fuels has focussed attention on a range of options for energy supply and use.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

Quick background info about me: I am a 26 year old tax auditor by day (motor fuel taxes, so no need to be afraid of me haha) and a fashion blogger by night.

One key item auto makers want to talk about is bringing the consumer into the mix, either through higher fuel taxes or greater tax incentives to pay for advanced technologies such as hybrid powertrains and diesel engines.

Increasing the gas tax by, say, just 20 cents per gallon, potentially generating billions in road - repairing funds, would raise the average cost of a tank of fuel by only about $ 3.

While the green - themed new Ecomotive with its road tax - busting CO2 rating of just 99g / km is all about economy and environmental responsibility the 265 PS Cupra R is, undeniably, aimed at ultra-hot hatch enthusiasts with high octane fuel coursing through their veins.

The 1.6 - litre diesel is also road - tax - exempt and matches the 1.3 - litre's fuel economy, but it costs about # 2,000 more than the smaller diesel.

With no diesel option on offer (like the 1.4 - litre D4D that's available in the rest of the Europe), the 1.33 - litre VVT - I petrol engine on offer in the UK, paired with the manual gearbox, returns 51.4 mpg in combined fuel economy and emits 127g / km in CO2, putting it in road tax band D, which will cost about # 105 a year.

anyway, nice Alfa Romeo and one of the last models to be FWD... for true Alfistis, not for ppl worrying about the tax in Italy, fuel consumption or resale value...

Learn more about how to estimate the cost of taxes, fees, and fuel surcharges on your next award ticket.

I did have to pay about $ 295 in taxes / fees / fuel surcharges on my Air Canada award since the fuel surcharge was about $ 211.

Airport taxes and fuel surcharges would add a few hundred dollars to the bill, but we are talking about visiting 4 fascinating cities for about the same miles as a round trip.

gary, i recently booked a friend a promo award in biz JFK - CDG to paris and taxes + fuel surcharges were about 1k total per ticket (only 50k miles though).

No fuel surcharges on Qantas, but the tax for a short haul flight (4500 points) is about $ 14.

None of which has anything to do with poor people in rural Africa that Gavin wrote about — people who use little or no fossil fuels, and who would therefore not pay any carbon taxes, even if someone were to impose such taxes in rural Africa, which no one has suggested doing.

Actually, I am becoming optimistic about raising the price of fossil fuels with some sort of carbon tax.

This country did not agree on how to value or price its concerns about oil imports (others taxed oil), whether or not one should move away from oil (others taxed all fuels), and more recently about CO2 (the brave Nordic countries have CO2 taxes).

After all, governments currently spend about half a trillion dollars a year on subsidies, mostly hidden and economically unsound, for fossil fuels... yes, our taxes are paying industries to burn coal and oil.

Write or e-mail your elected representatives about the need to restructure taxes and eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

The revelations, included in reports and correspondence released through access - to - information legislation, also indicated that federal tax dollars were used to print about $ 2,000 worth of brochures to help the industry in its battle against the European Parliament's plan to crack down on greenhouse gas pollution from transportation fuels.

If the GOP tax agenda were remotely serious about closing loopholes to lower overall rates, the fossil fuel industry would rightly have a lot to fear.

A $ 40 / t tax would increase the wholesale and retail prices of fossil fuelled electricity by about 4 cents per kWh.

By contrast aviation fuel, which is mainly exempt from the carbon tax, 4 did not follow this pattern; its sales changed about equally in BC and the rest of Canada during this period — further suggesting that the carbon tax contributed to the differences in the use of the other (taxed) fuels.

Does anyone seriously think that China, India and Brazil are as gullible and superstitious as the average Western - educated, flip flop - wearing science astrologers that are taking government grants to spin doomsday tales about evil American businesses causing a climate Armageddon as an excuse to ramp up taxes on all factors of production to fuel an out - of - control Leftist - liberal government grown too big to fail?

We anticipate that the energy transition will be driven largely by mounting concerns about climate change, by climbing oil prices, and by the restructuring of taxes to incorporate the indirect costs of burning fossil fuels.

Three - quarters of U.S. adults (76 %) say corporate tax incentives to encourage carbon emission reductions among businesses can make a difference, and roughly seven - in - ten (71 %) say the same about tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

There are reasons to worry about whether a carbon tax or cap - and - trade system would produce the emissions reductions we need quickly enough, and it is very plausible that additional measures like fuel taxes and efficiency requirements will be needed in addition.

My colleague Matt Hourihan wrote a great review of the effect price has on technology change and found that price — especially the small to moderate carbon pricing and fuel taxes talked about within policy circles — will do nothing but drive incremental technology change.

A $ 30 - a-tonne carbon tax would make gas — which is about half as polluting as coal when burnt — the preferred fuel for new power stations.

On the other hand, many Swedish industries pay a lower rate (about $ 22 / tonne), not all fossil fuels are covered, and proceeds go into general government revenues instead of tax cuts.

The large majority of «environmental taxes» are raised from measures which either long pre-date concerns about emissions reduction, ie fuel duty, road tax, VAT or have nothing to do with reducing CO2 (landfill tax, aggregates levy).

For example the fuel tax escalator was introduced around 8 years ago, the renewables obligation on energy about the same and if you drive intro London the congestion charge has become the Emissions charge.

Mostly what remains on sites like this is quibbling about inconclusive (un) science tidbits and either taxes or no taxes on fossil fuels, economic growth or degrowth, strict limits or no limits.

If they don't enact a stiff tax on carbon in 2021; and if they don't start using the full legal authority of the Clean Air Act to regulate all sources of carbon emissions — implementing what is in effect a carbon fuel rationing scheme — then they can be rightly accused of being totally dishonest and hypocritical in claiming to be concerned about the impacts of climate change.

Debunking the consensus and telling the truth about the moral positions (exactly how immoral is it to burn food for fuel, freeze grannies in winter and keep the entire third world in crippling energy poverty) is critically important to killing off this crippling tax grab.