Sentences with phrase «emissions tax just»

You'll also have to pay $ 895 for destination charges, and if you live in California, a $ 100 emissions tax just to sign on the dotted line — and that's before about $ 11,000 in safety and tech options that our example was equipped with, including the previously mentioned packages.

Not exact matches

Proponents of the private buses say the buses cut emission levels and congestion, while critics and activists say they are just another example of the technology industry forcing San Francisco to offer up overly generous policies (including large tax breaks for companies like Zynga and Twitter).

«This is the most efficient way of resolving climate change, not just a tax and not just technology because there's no guarantee emissions go down,» Hochschild continued.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

With CO2 emissions of just 94g / km combined with 115bhp, it's cheap to run (and tax exempt) and nippy enough with Ford's long legged manual «box.

The diesel claims an economy figure of 67mpg and CO2 emissions of 110g / km, resulting in a tax bill of just # 20 a year and a 20 % Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) rating for company car buyers.

The most popular engine choice is the 2 - litre CDTi diesel, which in 140PS format manages a remarkable 76mpg on the combined cycle, and achieves tax - busting CO2 emissions of just 98 g / km (start / stop ecoFLEX model).

That's largely down to its CO2 emissions of between 114 and 124g / km depending on gearbox type and wheel size, which result in an annual road - tax bill of just # 30 if registered before 1 April 2017.

In manual form, the Optima SW goes from 0 - 60mph in just under 10 seconds, while claimed fuel economy is 64.2 mpg and CO2 emissions of 113g / km mean # 30 - a-year road tax.

But car makers are busy building plug - in hybrids like the Passat GTE because governments have been so fixated by CO2 emissions they've skewed the tax costs hugely in favour of those cars which seem to be green, and the useless official economy tests, which proclaim the Passat GTE will emit just 39g / km and do 166mpg.

Conversely, the Auris full hybrid returns class - leading fuel consumption figures of only 3.8 l / 100 km in the European homologation combined cycle and remarkably low, highly tax - efficient CO2 emissions of just 89 g / km - a figure unmatched by any other C - segment car.

No longer do you have to sacrifice the great driving dynamics of conventional rivals such as the Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf just to have those tax - friendly CO2 emissions.

Best - in - class CO2 emissions of just 89 g / km and combined cycle fuel economy of only 3.8 l / 100 km offer customers significant, pan-European tax incentives, inner city congestion charge exemption and exceptionally low running costs.

If CO2 emissions are such an issue, don't do it!!!! Let's not start suing companies, and trying to get governments to impose laws and taxes — just stop.

Emphasizing the high end does indeed mean we should reduce emissions a little more (a carbon tax that is $ 22 / ton CO2 rather than just $ 4).

Some people have unwisely taken that logic to the extreme and suggested that if the US and other innovating nations just pushed hard on technology that there wouldn't be much need for emission limits, cap and trade or carbon taxes.

And Jim Larsen @ 521 — to that I would just add, it shouldn't tend to be inhumane to tax regardless of wealth because if CO2 emission were proportional to wealth generation, then the poor will be taxed less; otherwise, the price signal is encouraging wealth generation with less CO2 emission (which shapes investment so that it becomes easier to do so with less).

Public understanding is so «suboptimal» regarding climate change itself, and regarding a need for a «price» of any sort for carbon emissions, that we just have to hope that we'll get either cap - and - trade or carbon tax.

We see from how British Columbia did it that it is administratively feasible (indeed, not just no cost, but net savings) to exclude lucrative access to CO2E emission by imposing a fee at the retail level using the retail tax system, even though this fee itself is not a tax in the conventional sense.

Just as the accumulating scientific evidence makes plainer every day that Global Warming is taking place and that anthropogenic emissions are the lead driver, accumulating socio - economic and political evidence makes plainer every day that the Carbon Tax should be the lead driver along the road to climate stability.

The Australian Government's carbon tax was barely passed by its parliament, and California has just implemented an emissions - trading scheme.

A carbon tax that swaps out EPA regulatory authority over greenhouse gas emissions swaps out not just existing greenhouse gas regulation, but all agency regulation to come.