Sentences with phrase «idea of a carbon tax»
ALDY: So the basic idea of a carbon tax is to say that all of the sources of carbon dioxide ¬ — the most important greenhouse gas — would actually have to bear the cost that they have on the global environment.
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«My idea of a carbon tax would be to help fund clean fossil fuel research and development, not to fund the government, not to punish fossil fuel generation, not to manipulate fuel choice,» Cramer said.
Personally I think the idea of a carbon tax tends to focus too much on a single source of pollution rather than the broad range of environmental toxins that are polluting our environment.
I will note one area where the study shows hope is slim, at best — in the idea of a carbon tax, even one in which all revenue is returned to households.
And Democrats have long been willing to entertain the idea of a carbon tax.
The American public is opposed to it — When asked, the American people reject the idea of a carbon tax, with over 60 % of people opposing the idea.
The idea of a carbon tax is elegant in its simplicity: minimize harmful forms of consumption by making them more expensive.
I like the idea of a carbon tax because it makes use of a highly developed infrastructure that we sometimes don't remember to consider.
One month later, House Republicans unanimously voted for a nonbinding resolution that rejected the idea of a carbon tax.
However, before the idea of carbon taxes became popular, many governments already had similar taxes in place, i.e., fuel and energy taxes.
Another White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, said that it would be premature to conclude that the administration was embracing the idea of a carbon tax.
Myron Ebell promised to make the idea of a carbon tax «toxic» to any Republicans who might consider it, reports Climatewire: [99]
«And so we have to make the idea of a carbon tax toxic.»
The idea of a carbon tax has slowly been gaining support, not only among scholars and environmentalists, but also in an unlikely quarter: business groups and even the companies that emit carbon dioxide and would be the most directly affected.