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The historical problem of Russia is inability of exporting any produce other than raw materials, on account of having Europe as neighbour which can produce anyt
by thriftwy 5y ago
The historical problem of Russia is inability of exporting any produce other than raw materials, on account of having Europe as neighbour which can produce anything easier and often cheaper.
But now, with the carbon tax and gas prices in EU, I wonder if Russian mfg capacity will suddently become competitive.
The funniest thing would be Europe pricing itself out of Russian oil due to carbon tax, and then buying now-cheap goods from Russia made based on affordable oil.
- makerofspoons 5y agoCarbon tariffs would be a good way to even the playing field in that scenario.
- jabl 5y agoThere's been serious talks about carbon border adjustments, that is, levying an extra import tax on products from countries that don't have a sufficiently ambitious domestic climate change policy, so probably not.
- g_sch 5y agoThis strikes me as pretty optimistic given that exactly this kind of carbon dodge has been going on for years (e.g. Europe and the US importing goods from East Asia and other countries running on dirtier fuels)