Sentences with phrase «expensive oil tax»

The paper also proposes a strategy to raise the necessary revenue through increases in specific sources of revenues, including a fee on imported oil, elimination of antiquated and expensive oil tax breaks, and modest increases to a limited number of infrastructure user fees.

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Rob Wood, chief United kingdom economist at Berenberg, explained: «With Mark Carney and his merry band of fee setters dependable by the community to return inflation to target, the United kingdom can sit again and enjoy the powerful tax cut from less expensive oil.»

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

The whole point of carbon tax (or cap and trade) was to make oil more expensive than green alternatives.

As oil keeps getting more expensive and new carbon taxes and cap - and - trade plans appear on the horizon, having access to low - carbon fuels might become a big competitive advantage.

However if petrol becomes expensive again, it is either tax or by the amounts available and we do not want to visit peak oil do we?

The question of a new tax or fee being included in a climate bill has been a controversial issue because many Republicans have long dismissed climate control legislation as nothing more than a new tax on consumers, who would face higher energy prices when more expensive alternative energy like wind and solar power replace dirty - burning coal and oil.