> The only fair way is IMHO to tax any carbon based fuel coming into the country or out of the ground. Whomever uses it will ultimately pay the higher price for

> The only fair way is IMHO to tax any carbon based fuel coming into the country or out of the ground. Whomever uses it will ultimately pay the higher price for it. Anything else is just playing favorites. I'm not a fan of it BTW, just pointing out what a fair way to penalize cabon use would be. I don't really see how this is fair. the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels can vary a lot depending on how and where it is done. when an ICE vehicle burns fuel, the carbon is released directly into the atmosphere at ground level. an airplane that releases the same amount of carbon at a high altitude has a significantly greater warming effect. a power plant might burn a huge amount of fossil fuels, but recapture most of the carbon before it enters the atmosphere. taxing the fuel itself has an appealing simplicity, but it creates a very crude incentive structure. in particular, it creates zero incentive to actually clean up emissions per unit fuel.