Sentences with phrase «with carbon taxes»

Anything to do with carbon taxes coming to the EU's future?

Most «skeptics» have concluded, based on the available data, that the cost of «going to war» against CAGW (with carbon taxes, carbon rationing, top - down forced reductions in fossil fuel consumption, etc.) would be far greater than any «benefit» that might result, and would thus be «skeptical» of entering such a «war».

Environmental activists and Democratic lawmakers are likely to pose a myriad of innovative, environmental components, with carbon taxes and major shifts in tax rates as part of this evolutionary phase.

One reason I suspect there are serious problems with carbon taxes is that ready - made case studies exist.

2) That if the projections are correct, that a shift to «green energy» will save money and create jobs, why does it require a large UN regulatory structure with carbon taxes, credits and penalties?

Maybe, but it's certainly not by curbing CO2 emissions with carbon taxes and swapping lightbulbs!

It takes more than being an academic blowhard too or western nations with carbon taxes.

Western nations, driven by a global agenda of climate alarmism, are destroying their profitable industries with carbon taxes; and their promotion of expensive, intermittent green energy is pushing us back down the energy ladder; and our competitors in Asia are climbing the energy ladder as quickly as they can.

In fact, the US might increase oil imports since foreign producers won't be saddled with the carbon taxes or permit fees contained in McCain Lieberman approach.

He argues future Holocausts can be prevented with carbon taxes.

Natural gas is currently a fairly inexpensive fuel, but that may change in the future with carbon taxes on fossil fuels.

The main problem with carbon taxes is that they don't physically limit carbon emissions; they only raise the price.

Hillman concluded that both the letter and spirit of WTO trade rules permit countries with carbon taxes to adopt «non-discriminatory harmonizing tariffs.»

Results from the study showed indicated that with carbon taxes set at $ 50 per ton and increased at a rate of 5 % per year would lead to a reduction in the total greenhouse gas emission in the US by as much as 63 %, confirms Reilly.

Compared with carbon taxes, Lu said, cap and trade is more likely to be accepted by Chinese industries because it provides more options to meet their obligations.

The concern, of course, is that Canadian goods with a carbon tax may become much less attractive from a price point perspective.

Chief Executive Officer Asim Ghosh has a stern warning for Canadian political leaders considering changes to climate policy: don't go it alone with a carbon tax.

ASIC's budget has been slashed but the ACCC received a boost (mainly associated with carbon tax repeal monitoring) in yesterday's budget.

The massive risks of greenhouse gas - induced climate change are at least partly internalized with a carbon tax or its equivalent.

Good thoughts, Lee, but I have a problem with the carbon tax suggestion.

It will cost all of us (more than necessary) if we end up with a cap - and - trade when a carbon tax would have been more effective or efficient, and it will cost all of us (more than necessary) if we end up with a carbon tax when a cap - and - trade would have been better.

Even with a carbon tax of A$ 25 per MWh gas power remains highly profitable, while solar assuming it produces at full capacity for as much as 12 hrs a day 365 days a year never produces a positive internal rate of return (30 years life, finance at 8 % repayable over 15 years) unless interest free funding reaches half the touted capex of A$ 420 million instead of just 35 % so far.

If the initiative passes, Washington will be the first state in the nation with a carbon tax.

«This country would be much better off with a well - designed ETS than with a carbon tax or a RET — to have both is unworkable,» he said.

Rather, we point to the Guardian's campaign to reiterate that the best and maybe only broadly effective way to reduce fossil fuel demand (which is the point of a boycott) is with a carbon tax.

Last week, Steve William, CEO of Suncor, one of the biggest Tar Sands players, declared that climate change was real, could not be ignored, and invited the new Alberta Government to come up with a carbon tax plan.

In almost all locations of this world (except on top of a coal mine, as in Australia) today's nuclear fission technology competes with new clean coal plants with no carbon tax figured in.

As long as Democratic politicians like Obama are okay with a carbon tax and Republican politicians hate it, few conservatives are going to see this idea as a «market - friendly solution.»

«It's particularly important that we do not demonise the coal industry and if there was one fundamental problem, above all else, with the carbon tax was that it said to our people, it said to the wider world, that a commodity which in many years is our biggest single export, somehow should be left in the ground and not sold.

HUNDREDS of «carbon cops» will police compliance with the carbon tax and will have the power to inspect premises, take companies to court and impose financial penalties.

Funding these activities with carbon tax revenues would not generate additional GHG reductions, but simply transfer wealth to the developers by increasing their profit margins.»

With a carbon tax of $ 15 — 25 / tonne of CO2, for example, many kinds of clean energy projects may be economically viable without additional financial support, so developers will pursue them without further revenue or incentives.

«The biggest issue we have with the carbon tax isn't the design, it's the fact that we're the only jurisdiction in North America implementing it.»

When corporate taxes are increased, which would be the case with a carbon tax, the prices of their products are increased.

This is an interesting analysis, but it doesn't raise any real problems with a carbon tax.

Every gasoline car on the road has a subsidy, and the right way to address that is with a carbon tax.»

The question of whether to go with a carbon tax, emissions trading or a hybrid turns on two main issues.

The benefit of this would not only be to pre-empt any such externally imposed carbon tariff on China's exports (under international trade rules, a carbon tariff on goods from a country with a carbon tax would probably be illegal), but it would also allow the Chinese government to collect revenue of such a tax rather than to see it go to a foreign government.

Of course this would not happen with a carbon tax.

So lets start with a carbon tax or cap and trade: we don't know how high to set a tax, and we do not know how sensitive climate is beyond the broad range quoted above.

Phase out all forms of capital income taxation, including the corporate income tax, and replace them with a carbon tax, including a gasoline tax.

Most of our big export earners are carbon - intensive, and many are likely to go offshore to competitor countries, with no carbon tax and less efficient industries.

With a carbon tax, laws or regulations are enacted that establish a fee per ton of carbon emissions from a sector or the whole economy.

Now, the case for replacing the bulk of the existing subsidies and regulations addressing greenhouse gas emissions with a carbon tax — our preferred policy response to climate change — is quite strong regardless of how one feels about the underlying science.

So with this carbon tax / rebate scam you pay more, but it's mollified with a rebate, and you get to save the planet (or so you think).

With a carbon tax, you set it and hope it has the desired impact on demand.

With a carbon tax that assesses fuels according to how much they pollute.

Sanders has no official climate change plan yet, but also seek to go well beyond Obama climate change policies, with a carbon tax, greatly increased renewable energy, energy efficiency measures, and international leadership by the US.

His has been the most influential and persistent journalistic voice for breaking U.S. oil dependence by taxing gasoline and for addressing climate change with a carbon tax.

And we suggest replacing EPA greenhouse gas regulation with a carbon tax here: The «Bad Cop» Survives: Court Upholds EPA Greenhouse Gas Regulations, at http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2012/06/27/the-bad-cop-survives-court-upholds-epa-greenhouse-gas-regulations/