Sentences with phrase «way about carbon taxes»

(We do not seem to feel the same way about carbon taxes.)

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Put another way, despite all the good things about B.C.'s carbon tax (and it got some laudatory words in the OECD report), it's barely stringent enough to fit into the IEA's 450ppm path and it's not likely to be stringent enough to see BC's emissions decrease between now and 2020 (see Table 17).

I'll be speaking to the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, about whether there really is a pain - free way of cutting our carbon emissions - and whether innocent - sounding «green taxes» are really so inoffensive.

If a new administration immediately places a moratorium on new coal - fired plants until CCS works, and if it begins a carbon cap - and - trade system or carbon tax, and if it's serious about the problem, then we will finally see (I hope) the coal and utility industries begin to act much more quickly to develop CCS and work to address the problem in all ways possible.

You can't have it both ways: insist that we need carbon taxes, or at least cap and trade, and then feign pain about consumers facing high gas prices.

However this view is based on a lack of knowledge of what Marx actually wrote about the nature of the modern state which was: «The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie» Some leftists may well scream in exactly the same way as the new rightists, that carbon taxes are part of a plot by the wicked capitalists to make the poor freeze in winter.

e360: You and others have spoken quite a bit about the importance of imposing a carbon tax as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and now we have a new administration coming in and a new Congress.

A new survey suggests the conventional wisdom about carbon taxes is wrong: Promising to give people their money back with rebate checks isn't the best way to win public support.

While the debate about price trajectory is probably a long way from real political salience, we feel it's important to point out now that a carbon tax isn't a quick fix.

I would be very happy if Exxon answered the way you did (especially that bit about a carbon tax!).

I am deeply concerned about the effect the massive outlays for Kyoto, carbon trading, and carbon taxes will have on the social programs and way of life in our country.

As for adaptation: since there's no way to distinguish effects of «AGW» from existing levels of extreme events, why not forget about a carbon tax and just call it «foreign aid»?

And although he has to deal with internal squabbles about whether cap and trade or a carbon tax is the best way to bring down greenhouse gas emissions, at least the Obama team does agree on the goal.