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Right. My car has 100g/km CO2 emissions. I'd need to drive 10000km or 6500mi to emit a ton of carbon. But that's like, loads. I use the car for occasional 10-
by throwaway22032 5y ago
Right.
My car has 100g/km CO2 emissions. I'd need to drive 10000km or 6500mi to emit a ton of carbon.
But that's like, loads. I use the car for occasional 10-20 mile drives to DIY stores or whatever. I'd need to do that every day for a year to even get close to 1t.
For a new car we're talking 10x that, at minimum.
- fomine3 5y agoThat's why tax should be done for fuel.
- throwaway22032 5y agoIn the UK it is, we pay something like $8-9 per US gallon.
- tom_ 5y ago$7.60/US gallon, assuming £1.539/L (price this afternoon for ordinary petrol at the petrol station I usually go to).
- ok_dad 5y agoYou are correct, but to go further, tax and import tariff should be added for any carbon energy source or the products made with those sources. If you tax the source, then that raises carbon energy generation prices, which raise the usage of carbon energy, which raises the price of the things that use that energy. Then you can truly see the costs of things that are made with that energy. Maybe then we'll have more competitive nuclear power or whatever else we can come up with that doesn't use carbon fuel sources. The hard part is ensuring the tax or tariff is bulletproof without loopholes and stuff. Good luck with that.