Sentences with phrase «out of the fuel tax»

Legislative leaders have signaled a desire for a complete phase - out of the fuel tax in the coming years, making airlines and airline passengers big winners for sessions to come.

Not exact matches

The major indices once again reached new all - time highs this week, and stocks are enjoying a historic winning streak fueled by solid earnings from market - leading stocks, the perceived benefits of tax reform and «FOMO» (Fear Of Missing Outof tax reform and «FOMO» (Fear Of Missing OutOf Missing Out).

And while doing these big, country - changing things, we are doing everything possible to help people who are struggling with the cost of living: helping to freeze council tax for three years in a row; freezing fuel duty; cutting the income tax bills of 24 million taxpayers; taking two million of the lowest paid out of tax altogether.

The AA and RAC have been quick to point out that tax as a proportion of fuel prices has climbed in recent years and a rise could mean it creeps above 80 % of the overall cost once VAT is included.

Funding for the RTP portion of MAP - 21 comes from a portion of the motor fuel excise tax collected across the country from non-highway recreational fuel use in snowmobiles, all - terrain vehicles, off - highway motorcycles and off - highway light trucks, and comes out of the Federal Highway Trust Fund.

On the very night that current President Dilma Rousseff gave the closing speech of the Rio +20 conference in June — the final agreement of which promised to phase out fossil - fuel subsidies — the government said it would be reducing a federal fuel tax to zero.

The awards, which are given out annually, consider eight major areas of expense — financing, fueling, maintenance, repairs, insurance, fees and taxes, depreciation, and opportunity cost — and analyze 28 different life cycle cost scenarios to yield an accurate picture of each vehicle's true total average cost.

Low fuel prices have some buyers eyeing bigger cars and trucks, but savvy owners know plentiful gas isn't forever and many parts of the world will tax the heck out of fossil fuels out of concerns over global warming.

When factoring in the tax credit with price, mileage, and cost of fuel, the gas - powered Bimmer beats out the clean diesel on economics — but not by much.

Unfortunately, this ticket comes at a steep price — not only would you dish out 85,000 miles one - way (or 170,000 miles per round - trip or), but also over $ 400 - 800 in fuel surcharges and taxes, and fuel surcharges would be the biggest part of the fees.

Norway is cutting consumption by taxing the heck out of fuel even though they have North Sea oil to pump.

They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..

The price of gasoline, and of liquid fuel made from coal, would reflect the carbon tax, which would pay the cost of taking that carbon back out of the atmosphere.

So it turns out that the answer to our confusion (see earlier post) of how the government proposed to hike up taxes and keep fuel prices even was that they would adjust the base fuel price downward, predicated on the recent plummet of global crude prices.

Some of the policies examined include the B.C. carbon tax, Ontario's Green Energy and Economy Act and phase - out of coal - fired power, Quebec's and Nova Scotia's regulatory cap on emissions, public transit strategies in Ontario, and federal fuel - efficiency standards for cars.

Does anyone seriously think that China, India and Brazil are as gullible and superstitious as the average Western - educated, flip flop - wearing science astrologers that are taking government grants to spin doomsday tales about evil American businesses causing a climate Armageddon as an excuse to ramp up taxes on all factors of production to fuel an out - of - control Leftist - liberal government grown too big to fail?

If it's 0.8 degC warmer in 2030 and we are 30 years away from possible catastrophe, the carbon tax should have risen to levels that eliminate the rule out the use of fossil fuels for electricity and most transportation.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

Only after incurring a succession of monetary losses or anticipated losses from the «sin» tax or increased price do «appetites» for fossil fuel use diminish: consumers, as they have limited monetary resources, figure out for themselves the trade - off in monetary terms of one set of appetites for another and start choosing the higher benefit - to - cost satisfactions.

The Koch brothers — major Republican donors whose sprawling empire of fossil fuel - related industries has made them billionaires — have cheered on the fossil fuel - friendly moves that Republican Congress and the Trump administration have undertaken, from an attempt to kill rooftop solar in the recent tax bill to a solar tariff that could slow solar adoption to going ham with offshore drilling to pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.

More to the point, when this GW scam is finally exposed, who's going to pay me back the literally hundreds of thousands which I've already paid out in «environmental» taxes — mainly fuel tax?

The unpopularity of the BC carbon tax — which, Jones points out, boosted fuel costs when oil prices were at a record high — could put a similar crimp on the provincial party.

See chapter 9 of my early 2012 ebook Gaia's Limits for a much longer and more detailed rationale based on chapters 5 - 8, plus working out general economic «least harm» consequences if the fuel tax increase is ramped over time.

Of course we should zero out tax breaks, lease loopholes and other giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, along with the bloated and unsupportable ethanol mandate.

The first item is the plea on page 13 to Soviet - style manipulation of the marketplace, namely, to tax fossil fuels out of existence so that solar and wind could become competitive; moreover to put these piddle - power sources «on an equal footing with nuclear.»

I know that the present Australian government considers rain to be a pollutant, like CO2, hence our upcoming carbon tax, that will seek to phase out all combustion of fossil fuels (which generally produce CO2 to H2O in ratios between 2:1 or close to 1:1).