Unless there is an effective
tax on the carbon content of the manufacture etc of imported goods, then the tax on domestic producers gives money to consumers to buy cheaper imported goods.
In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «
A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»
If necessary to protect America's competitiveness, reformers could also impose
a tax on the carbon content of imports from countries that do not tax their own emissions.
On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax —
a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.
HERE is a poll by the IGM of their Economic Experts Panel on a carbon tax; the question posed was: «
A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles».
He also cites problems with a straight
tax on carbon content of fuels.
Not exact matches
The plan also includes a border
tax adjustment: U.S. companies exporting goods to countries without a similar
carbon price would receive a rebate of
tax paid, and imports from companies outside the U.S. would face fees based
on the
carbon content of their products.
In Dr. Hansen's approach, a straightforward rising
tax is imposed
on the
carbon content of fuels, instead of Mr. Barnes's notion of a shrinking supply of purchased, and traded, permits.
Tax oil and coal based
on their
carbon content.
The
tax on coal would be almost double that
on natural gas simply because coal has a much higher
carbon content.
And rather than set $ / kWh
tax based
on the volume of electricity consumed by customers like in Boulder, the District's
carbon fee would change based
on the
carbon content the the electricity consumed in DC.
Tax - A carbon tax is a levy on the carbon content of fossil fue
Tax - A
carbon tax is a levy on the carbon content of fossil fue
tax is a levy
on the
carbon content of fossil fuels.
I think a
carbon content tax / tariff leveled
on all exports into the US would be a good negotiation tactic.
On January 29, 2014, we searched Factiva — an online research tool for accessing
content from different sources (viz. newspapers, journals, and magazines)-- for newspaper articles containing statements regarding the future costs of Australia's
carbon pricing scheme — commonly referred to as the «
carbon tax».
Carbon Tax (aka Carbon Content Tax): Representative John D. Dingle (D, Michigan) proposes to tax the «Carbon Content» of certain products, levy an additional tax on gasoline and «excessive» carbon fuel usage in your «large» ho
Tax (aka
Carbon Content Tax): Representative John D. Dingle (D, Michigan) proposes to tax the «Carbon Content» of certain products, levy an additional tax on gasoline and «excessive» carbon fuel usage in your «large» ho
Tax): Representative John D. Dingle (D, Michigan) proposes to
tax the «Carbon Content» of certain products, levy an additional tax on gasoline and «excessive» carbon fuel usage in your «large» ho
tax the «
Carbon Content» of certain products, levy an additional
tax on gasoline and «excessive» carbon fuel usage in your «large» ho
tax on gasoline and «excessive»
carbon fuel usage in your «large» home.
It took 1000 + pages to explain the
carbon trading system in Waxman - Markey — I can explain this plan in two sentences: Institute a federal
carbon excise
tax on fuels whose rate increases with the
carbon content per btu of the fuel.
If the SCC can be shown to be negative at current levels of abatement (and bear in mind that your excellent chart of net benefits for various abatement paths refers to benefits relative to the 2010 policy stance) then I'd be
content to freeze policy at current levels but to steadily transfer all policies to a
carbon tax, or at least to cost them
on a common basis, ie to treat renewable subsidies as implicit
carbon taxes.
Oakland should aim for a comprehensive
carbon tax based
on CO2 emissions or energy
content that includes gasoline, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuel - fired electricity consumption by residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
A
tax system can be administered upstream, at primary production and imports of fossils based
on their
carbon content (and refund upon export, deposit - like).
Synapse modeled several different approaches in ReEDS, including
taxing imported power based
on an assumed level of
carbon content, adjusting the stringency of the regional cap - and - trade system (RGGI), and simplifying the demand - side
tax.
Because CO2 is released in strict proportion to the fuel's
carbon content, the
carbon tax can be levied «upstream»
on the -LSB-...]
A
carbon tax would be simple — gasoline, coal and other fuels would be
taxed based
on their
carbon content — and nearly impossible to evade.
A Commerce Department spokesman said Locke was not endorsing a
tax on imports or any other particular policy option to reduce the
carbon content of imported goods.