Sentences with phrase «carbon taxation»

Probably, I would say, it is by far and away the most useful single site for carbon taxation related topics on the internet.

Even so, it's worth noting that their arguments do not add up to an argument against carbon taxation.

Each version of that provincial party shares a similar vision on carbon taxation, minimum wages and health care, to name a few examples.

By looking beyond their own walls, businesses will uncover more ways to reduce the burden of looming carbon taxation and high fuel prices.

Regardless of its economic merits, it's hard to imagine the Right ever embracing carbon taxation as a conservative, pain - free policy option to address climate change.

While one can remain skeptical about the science and still embrace carbon taxation, in reality, that's too heavy a lift for many on the Right.

Support for carbon taxation or emissions trading as standalone policies both fell relative to five years ago.

By looking beyond their own walls, businesses will uncover more ways to reduce the burden of looming carbon taxation and high fuel prices.

They are right to scorn the implementation of carbon taxation in Australia.

Complete opposition to all forms of carbon taxation continues to be the national Conservative party's preferred strategy almost a decade later, despite professed support for lowering Canada's emissions 30 per cent by 2030.

The government could come under pressure to give out extra credits if people found it too hard to reduce their emissions, the report said, and it would also be an expensive option compared to other ways of cutting emissions, like carbon taxation.

While it's not impossible to imagine scenarios where carbon taxation still goes forward in the 115th Congress, it's obviously less likely now under a Trump administration.

Today, I offered my own thoughts on the impact the elections have had on those of us who support carbon taxation in the GOP.

I think carbon taxation can be, and today is, counterproductive in that it motivates everyone on a government payroll to find ways to keep the rest of us burning carbon.

In short, Goulder himself is not persuaded that his arguments about tax interaction effects are a good reason to reject carbon taxation or offsetting tax cuts.

Do the authors of the Cato paper disagree with this line of thinking, which is often forwarded for why a unilateral national carbon tax might well induce global carbon taxation even absent an international agreement?

In other words, in a sleight of hand, the IMF builds into its analysis its own support for carbon taxation while distorting the meaning of the word «subsidy.»

I fear that a fragmented approach of radical carbon taxation by a number of national governments would amount to spiralling protectionism, and lead to collapsing markets.

If Chevron, or any named Big Oil codefendant can show that the externalities of CO2 emissions are of net benefit, could they countersue entities that have suppressed CO2 emission, or benefited from CO2 emissions, & thereby place liens & seize the assets of companies selling carbon credits, or of any tangible real property associated with past ill - gotten carbon taxation & regulation?

dude, these comments are about carbon taxation penance not AGW.

«Shi - Ling Hsu's book is the most thoughtful and sweeping book on carbon taxation in existence.

Vance Ginn and Megan Ingram of the Texas Public Policy Foundation argue against carbon taxation, saying that a carbon tax would do crippling harm to the American economy:

One Oregon proposal is pushing for a coal phase - out by 2030, while competing ballot initiatives in Washington State are asking voters to agree to different forms of carbon taxation.

As to the question of carbon taxation, I prefer a two pronged approach that addresses energy in the way I think it should be, both as a national security issue and as component of the AGW question.

I think this would (could) fairly reflect the greater carbon impact of living in far - flung locations, depending on the level of carbon taxation.

It would be so helpful that I always ask, why not start with the dividend, enjoy the huge benefits that would follow, and leave the increase in carbon taxation for later?

This would require both a major analytical effort and a big political push, and it would have to be carefully tailored to meet WTO standards for non-discrimination and, thus, not impede global participation in carbon taxation.

«A lot of people would rather do emissions trading systems, but we believe that carbon taxation would be a lot better,» she said.

One obstacle to subjecting combustion and / or production of biofuels and biomass to carbon taxation is the complexity of estimating carbon emissions from each fuel stream.

But O» Neil said that such support was not borne out by BP's positions and opposition to any form of carbon taxation or command and control legislation.

All carbon taxation activists need to deter geoengineering research is to persuade the Tarsandinista elite that they can instead achieve profitable immortality the old fashioned way!

Obviously too much of anything is not good no matter what, but carbon taxation and villafication is utterly condemnable.

Washington state has two competing ballot initiatives pushing for different forms of carbon taxation.

And «the absence of a carbon taxation should be seen as destroying the planet.»

While it's too early to definitively handicap the electoral impact of a Republican call for carbon taxation (we have, after all, no political data points to go by), it's not too early to handicap the electoral impact of the position forwarded by most of the Republican presidential candidates today: pretending that climate change is an open scientific question while offering cheap fossil fuel as the holy grail of federal policy.

Gillespie's substantive arguments against carbon taxation are even weaker.

And the evidence suggests that voters are more open to carbon taxation than the present Republican position that climate change is no big deal and requires little federal response.

As you might imagine, the questions and responses came quickly and furiously to these presentations, and included thoughts about the political reality of carbon taxation, the idea that such taxes create a right to pollute, the problem of hydrogen generation from «dirty» sources, and the methods by which governments can encourage their citizens to accept changes that could be painful in the short term.

It is important to acknowledge, as this blog page forthrightly does, that carbon taxation has long been and remains a «hard sell.»

After all, there are more people and animals than internal combustion engines in the city, many of whom are full - time residents who do not even own an internal combustion engine, and who might smugly believe they are beyond the reach of carbon taxation.

We also count a dozen columns urging gasoline and / or carbon taxation in 2006 alone, including Who's Afraid of a Gas Tax?