So then what? We get a bunch of buildings getting a structure-sized keg of beer and go for a night of dancing and celebrating?
Posted on 09/19/2017 8:03:50 AM PDT by rktman
Yale University announced it is beginning penalize campus buildings and departments that emit too much carbon dioxide.
Yale said it is the first university to implement such a carbon fee. The fee will be $40 per ton of carbon.
If a building manages to reduce its carbon footprint at a rate that is greater than what the university achieves, then that building is rewarded with money from the carbon fund. If a building fails to reduce its carbon footprint, it must contribute to the carbon fund. Presumably, the money would be added or taken away from the departments that work in those buildings. More than 250 buildings will be affected, the university said.
It came to the decision after three years “of study, discussion and experimentation.”
Although the carbon tax took effect on July 1, those “administrative units” subject to the charge will get their first bills at the end of September.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
The administration is still flying around in jets to climate change conferences though.
How in the name of Jerry Lewis will they measure carbon emissions?
Put a big bag around each building and see what expires?
Someone should point out to Yale how much carbon dioxide their students generate.
And when the students are gone, point out the professors.
Oh, I get it. Turn back into farmers at the turn of the 20th century, work only in the daytime and freeze when you go to bed.
No exhaling...
So then what? We get a bunch of buildings getting a structure-sized keg of beer and go for a night of dancing and celebrating?
Probably by totaling electricity and fuel bills.
If the buildings are emitting too much CO2, they should tear them down and put up tents.
Unless the goal is not to lower tuition. Sayyyyyyy, you don't suppose.......?
Hey I can impose carbon fees on myself as well. xp you’re gonna have to pay a carbon fee. How much? A thousand bucks. Ok who do I give it to. Take it from your right hand and give it to your left. I can do that. :)
They’d have to pay me to attend there.
Any liberal who exhales is a hypocrite
Bullogni...meet my new BFF...
fining itself?
circular firing squad
lordy, these cretins are brain dead...
Yale University has one of the top (Like.. the second ranked) cogeneration facility on US Soil.
Their cogen itself makes their carbon footprint nearly nothing.
They have a supercollider underneath a museum !
So Yale... which owns the buildings, maintains the buildings, built the buildings and pays taxes on the buildings...
Are penalizing the buildings for not lowering their carbon footprint faster than Yale’s own administration...
This is STUPID!
The irony... Ebenezer Scrooge said the same thing to Bob Cratchit.
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