The carbon tax will monetize thin air and completely destroy your freedoms.
Your furnace isn’t efficient enough, there’s a tax for that. Your car doesn’t get enough mileage, there’s a tax for that. Your house has insufficient insulation, there’s a tax for that. You don’t have a smart meter on your house, there’s a tax for that...........
Typical RAT behavior.
This is not about the effects of carbon dioxide on the relative warmth of the earth’s atmosphere, and it never was.
This is a tax on producers, and indirectly, a consumption tax on everybody. Its singular purpose is to REDUCE the amount of energy generated by combustion of carbon-based fuels, by making any such power production so very costly, that solar and wind power generation, as irregular and unreliable as they are, somewhat competitive in cost to the consumer, as compared to coal, natural gas or petroleum put to use in heat production, whether for power generation, transportation, or home heating purposes.
Neither wind or solar power will ever be much more than scientific curiosities, in the same league as perpetual motion machines or the mining of the sea for gold. The costs are simply too great for the value of the product recovered.
There is a way to use nuclear energy for power generation, with far fewer of the undesirable end products that result from using U-238 as the power source, or “fuel”. There is great potential for using a thorium-based nuclear power plant, but because it cannot be made into a fission bomb, the technology has largely been stalled for perhaps the last sixty-five years or so.
Some 97% of the energy available still remains in “spent” uranium power rods, energy that can be mostly released using the thorium-powered atomic piles, which would vastly reduce the atomic “waste” that is now moldering away in various storage dumps all over the world.
Yet this technology will not be pursued, because of superstitious fears that are fed endlessly by the anti-power crowd, those who do not WANT widespread prosperity and cheap energy, for whatever reason.
If it would only stop there. You are allotted 1,000 miles per year in your ICE-powered auto or truck. There’s a tax for 1,000 to 5,000 miles. Nobody is allowed to drive more than 5,000 miles per year. Then, you aren’t allowed to leave your state. After that, you are required to live your entire life within a 50 mile radius of your birthplace. AC is banned. Offices are kept at 85F in the summer and 62F in winter. You’ll be charged $5,000 per year for a single parking place in the company parking lot if you drive to work — better carpool to share the pain. Driving solo will cost you a $4,000 per year permit. Cities all have “congestion fees” to prevent autos from entering.
Welcome to Dystopia...designed and engineered for you by Democrat commies.