Until the governments properly price carbon pollution it is left to climate concerned citizens to try anything they can to impose pollution
pricing on carbon fuels.
I wish I had seen the play on its opening night, when Jim Hansen saw his career re-enacted and then gave a valuable talk on his view of the problem and his longstanding vision of a solution centering on a rising
fee on carbon fuels with funds returned to taxpayers, along with a fresh push on innovative new approaches to nuclear power.
An across - the - board
tax on carbon fuels, either when they are mined or when they are imported, would be far simpler to administer than the proposed carbon trading scheme, and adjusting the amount of the tax to produced the desired level of greenhouse gas production would also be simpler.
It makes no sense that the provinces would deliberately circumvent Ottawa to produce a policy that is essentially a thumbs - up to pipelines and a bunch of rhetoric about environmental protection or any real goals for reducing our
reliance on carbon fuels.
Without an ongoing artificially low
price on carbon fuels we can clean up our furnaces and hot water heaters too.
I support creating a gradually rising
fee on all carbon fuels and then rebating the revenue in equal shares to every single resident of the nation's capital.
Even a Congress controlled by Liberal Democrats will not place a legislated
tax on carbon fuels, nor will they act to directly restrict the supply of carbon fuels.