>If an extra charge of $10 / month for everyone in Europe would 'solve' the problem, why don't we do it? Considering how much excise taxes Europeans pay on the

>If an extra charge of $10 / month for everyone in Europe would 'solve' the problem, why don't we do it? Considering how much excise taxes Europeans pay on their gasoline, you would think that climate change would already be a solved issue. Taxes are a larger part of the cost of gasoline than the gasoline itself. Yet somehow there isn't enough money to fight climate change?! The Netherlands pays $3.53 per gallon purely in excise taxes.[0] Bulgaria, a country with an average income of $9000 a year[1], pays $1.61 a gallon in excise taxes. [0] https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-europe-2019/ https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-europe-2019/ [1] https://tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/wages https://tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/wages