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I'm against carbon taxes which I see it as your typical neoliberal designed to be easily foiled non-solution. Really this isn't something where the 'free marke
by Gibbon1 4y ago
I'm against carbon taxes which I see it as your typical neoliberal designed to be easily foiled non-solution.
Really this isn't something where the 'free market' and 'magic hand' will magically fix things. Everything that needs to be done is clear as day.
Want to reduce emission from people driving? Implement work from home, not too far from home polices. Provide for buy backs for older fossil fueled cars and steep excise taxes on new ones. Soften the pain for working class people with down payment assistance and grants for electric cars, heat pumps, etc. Pass laws requiring utilities to sunset fossil fuel plants.
None of this is hard it's just willful stupidity and ideology in the way.
- WalterBright 4y agoThis all will happen if the cost of burning carbon increases. Your proposals will all be much more expensive and less effective. For example, taxing CO2 will immediately spur transitioning coal to natural gas, which emits half the CO2 per joule. It will also make geothermal home heating systems much more attractive.
- Gibbon1 4y agoProblem is simply taxing CO2 punishes people for decisions they made years ago. Going to punish some working guy making $20/hr because he bought a used Crown Victoria in 2010? Or offer to buy it back and give them a down payment grant to put them in a newer hybrid/electric? Lot less blow back in the latter option. It's also what California is doing right now.
- WalterBright 4y agoIt's a fantasy that green energy is not going to punish people, including some working guy. It's already happening. See gas prices, natural gas prices. With a CO2 tax, the revenue can be used to reduce the sales tax.