Posted on 03/25/2013 2:34:34 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obamas Energy secretary nominee regards a carbon tax as one of the simplest ways to move the energy industry towards clean technologies, though he notes that government would have to come up with a plan to mitigate the burden this tax places on poor people, who would pay the most.
Ultimately, it has to be cheaper to capture and store it than to release it and pay a price, MIT professor and Energy nominee Ernest Moniz told the Switch Energy Project in an interview last year. If we start really squeezing down on carbon dioxide over the next few decades, well, that could double; it could eventually triple. I think inevitably if we squeeze down on carbon, we squeeze up on the cost, it brings along with it a push toward efficiency; it brings along with it a push towards clean technologies in a conventional pollution sense; it brings along with it a push towards security. Because after all, the security issues revolve around carbon bearing fuels.
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Where is that guy with the palm to the face - Not this Crap again. Carbon Tax right that will bring more jobs to Americas disaster president! More of the ridiculous coming from DC - Disaster Center.
Can ANYONE on this forum continue to heat/cool their home or drive their car at all if energy costs triple from where they are right now?
ANYONE HERE?
$12/gallon gas and triple your electric bill.
Can you honestly survive that?
We have our own fuels. We need to pump and refine only domestic oil. We need to use coal to generate electricity. Our land gives us the energy we need. These bureaucrats are not so much insane as they are wicked for dictating hardship for our citizens. And FOR WHAT???? Why do they want us to have hardship?
I believe the chinese charge the family for the bullet used to dispose of their “problem”. Maybe that’s a deficit reduction approach the ‘bummer has in mind.
yeah, but that’s going to be a double charge as we have all already paid for Damnit Janet’s bullet supply.
I’m pretty sure he/ she/ it has enough bullets to put 6 in each person in this country ...
If you look at pictures from the 19th century, especially the Civil War, you notice that there are few forests and trees. Why? Because people heated their little houses with wood. If fuel oil and propane go to $12/gal say good bye to all the nice trees.
Right, thank you.
Thanks Nachum.
No.
They just want to destroy it.
Not just of the economy,
energy is LIFE itself.
Without energy, you die. Without energy, your kids die.
... not to mention the pig that buggered them before breakfast ..
Nah, most communities have strict laws about wood burning, as well as the accompanying stiff penaltie$.
There has been rumors that ozero will agree to let the Keystone pipeline go forward in exchange for a new carbon tax. No details on how nasty the tax would be. Given the nature of these pukes, I would imagine it will be stiff.
Pretty much negate any benefit of the pipeline.
We can count on the repubs to makes such a deal.
nice.
Liberals are counting on us to sell out on our principles to get the pipeline. I’ve had liberals tell me that we should accept a deal because without the pipeline gas will be $10 per gallon.
I tell them that building the pipeline and accepting a carbon tax will also mean gas at $10 per gallon and the final loss of our freedoms through the taxation of every energy using aspect of our lives.
This is the reason we should make energy as cheap as possible. Increasing its costs thru taxation is regressive hurting those at the bottom of the economic ladder the worst.
Pretty funny to hear Democrats cry about taxing the poor when they were intentionally jacking up energy prices for those very poor.
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