> The energy industry is willing to impose a carbon tax in the US in exchange for immunity from lawsuits from emissions up until now: Of course they would agre

> The energy industry is willing to impose a carbon tax in the US in exchange for immunity from lawsuits from emissions up until now: Of course they would agree to a carbon tax in exchange for immunity. They would be getting immunity and their customers would be paying the carbon tax. They'd be getting immunity for free. > That's how certain everybody is about the need for legislation, that an industry would invite a tax that amounts to $0.36/gallon of gas. But they aren't inviting it. They are demanding immunity for it. > But I think that clear carbon taxes, at $40-$120/ton, would help both the environment and the proper structuring of our economy. Clear to whom? How is a carbon tax going to help the environment? Carbon tax has nothing to do with the environment. It's a global regulatory control platform for the financial elite to control energy. It's a way to unify and control the global economy and skim off a percentage from the entire world via a tax. And it wouldn't properly structure our economy. It would distort it by creating arbitrary taxes. If you want to help the environment, you write environmental laws and enforce them. > Uncertainty about regulation can be worse than the regulation itself. And terrible regulation can be worse than uncertainty.