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Many activities generate emissions that have nothing to do with the sale of fuel. Who gets to decide what counts as emissions?
by JacobThreeThree 4y ago
Many activities generate emissions that have nothing to do with the sale of fuel.
Who gets to decide what counts as emissions?
- WalterBright 4y agoWhat percentage of it is is fuel based? 95%?
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoIf that's big enough to worry about, then tax carbon at the point oil, gas, and coal, come out of the ground.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoDoes ethanol, wood and other non fossil carbon sources get a pass?
- WalterBright 4y agoIf the goal is to reduce CO2, then the source of the fuel is irrelevant. The only relevant thing is the carbon content, which gets turned into CO2 via combustion.
- logifail 4y agoIsn't the goal to reduce net CO2? Seems to be somewhat hardcore to reduce the entire debate down to (effectively) "any CO2 is bad CO2"
- x-complexity 4y agoIn the ideal sense, we go strictly chemical on this & track the chemical outputs from a given process. From there, the chemical/resource inputs are taken into account to get (supposed resulting emissions + inefficiency overhead + 5% padding). With those emission outputs in hand, a table of carbon prices is referred to before the final tally is made.