tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post1845283892222464073..comments2024-01-30T19:45:36.648+11:00Comments on Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Conservative curbs on climate changeC W Mageehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-27576949800255294392008-04-30T13:12:00.000+10:002008-04-30T13:12:00.000+10:00Hi,The problem with your plan (which I have attemp...Hi,<BR/><BR/>The problem with your plan (which I have attempted to address) is that countries that do NOT adopt a carbon tax/emission regulations get an advantage. Thus my proposal for an Emissions Added Levy to be put on all domestic and imported goods.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-78167936651577860792008-04-22T10:30:00.000+10:002008-04-22T10:30:00.000+10:00Relying on clean coal is like relying on fairy dus...Relying on clean coal is like relying on fairy dust.<BR/><BR/>Maybe, if you work your ass off, you can devise a sequestration program that will take care of cement and smelting emissions. But not today. It is still decades away. And thermal coal? The cost of air separation and the scale are just too large. It is much easier to geosequester spent fuel rods than it is carbon dioxide. So C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-19881738749574993442008-04-22T03:50:00.000+10:002008-04-22T03:50:00.000+10:00Honestly these proposals would be extremely costly...Honestly these proposals would be extremely costly to implement because of the time and resources consumed in quantifying. Creating new taxes is not a free market solution in any event.<BR/><BR/>The United States is the most efficient producer of goods in the world. That means that we create more with less waste and pollution per unit than anyone, anywhere. Attention ought to be given to that DC Mountaineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09305014328485995635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-57246835025466640752008-04-17T23:35:00.000+10:002008-04-17T23:35:00.000+10:00Silver Fox (my profile should have been fixed by n...Silver Fox (my profile should have been fixed by now!) - sure there'll always be things that have to be done in the office. But if I only had to go into the office once a fortnight that'd reduce my commuting by 90%. And anything that reduces my commuting emissions by that much is a good thing. Even a once a week visit to the office knocks 80% out. Not such a big deal when I use public Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695173188736074202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-24471676741859990132008-04-17T23:27:00.000+10:002008-04-17T23:27:00.000+10:00Chuck, I think there are some good ideas, here - t...Chuck, I think there are some good ideas, here - thanks for getting into this subject. Isn't there already some buying and selling of carbon credits? Maybe that's what you're calling cap and trade. I'm not particularly well-informed about this; it's good to learn and hear some ideas. And I'm not pessimistic on the idea that we can't do it because of politics.<BR/><BR/>Julia (whose blogger profileSilver Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03131032620978696727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-54406865842917988342008-04-17T22:38:00.000+10:002008-04-17T22:38:00.000+10:00Kim, one goal of fiscal conservatives over the pas...Kim, one goal of fiscal conservatives over the past decade or so has been to shift tax burden from income to consumption. A carbon tax offset by income tax cuts is a great way to do that.<BR/><BR/>Maria, without regulatory relief, renewable energy projects simply one get built. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1930289620071019?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&C W Mageehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706100504739548720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-48457043634223317032008-04-17T06:41:00.000+10:002008-04-17T06:41:00.000+10:00I like this plan except for all the bits about cut...I like this plan except for all the bits about cutting taxes and reducing regulation. Can't we use revenue from a carbon tax to provide more red-tape-ridden government services?McMootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17155680513510901748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-30959551994496078502008-04-16T22:45:00.000+10:002008-04-16T22:45:00.000+10:00We really need discussions like this - the basic e...We really need discussions like this - the basic economics makes sense. (So can you convince some conservatives that they need to stop arguing that the Free Market will recognize when there's a problem and deal with it, and if the market doesn't take care of it, there's not a problem? I've tried to explain externalities to conservatives who wanted to claim that global warming was invented in 2004Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738706550175991130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20092824.post-86388913940497099302008-04-16T22:21:00.000+10:002008-04-16T22:21:00.000+10:00They all seem like very reasonable proposals. I h...They all seem like very reasonable proposals. I have no clue how they would get through our parliament or your native country's senate, but I am all in favour of balancing out the sticks with carrots, and if the best way of dealing with that is by removing some of the non-directional income tax sticks and replacing them with one really big climate change stick up the arse, then fair enough.<BR/>Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695173188736074202noreply@blogger.com