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Penalizing emissions directly through gasoline and emissions-based road taxes would be a vastly cheaper and simpler way of reaching the same objective. What can

• dogma1138 10y ago
  No it won't it would harm consumers and businesses because these do not offer alternatives directly. A global gasoline tax would hugely inflate the prices of good and services without doing anything to reduce emissions. A gasoline tax that only affects private car ownership would have even a smaller environmental effect while negatively affecting non-urban residents pushing even more people into densely populated cities. Ban on combustion engines (in new cars sold) isn't as bad as long as there an industry wide cooperation to provide an alternative, it doesn't not affect existing cars and services dependant on gasoline while providing a constant reduction in emissions as more and more zero emission vehicles are put on the road.
  • cashmonkey85 10y ago
    Carbon emissions, smog and noise pollution are externalities and not reflected in the market. This creates the huge inefficiencies we see in the economy today with combustion cars still being produced. As Bobblebobble said the most efficient way to correct this is with a tax.