A Livelier Web Site
09/12/2007 by Charles Komanoff
Welcome to CTC 2.0 — the Carbon Tax Center’s new-look Web site.
If you’re a returning visitor, you’ll notice a host of changes, hopefully all good. Our well-liked but slow-loading Slideshow is gone from the Home Page (you can still link to it here). The page choices on the Nav Bar menu are clearer and more logical. Our stances on key issues, like why carbon taxes won’t raise your tax bill or drawbacks of cap-and-trade schemes, are accessible directly from the Home Page. So are a rotating handful of nifty graphs, as well as our Quote of the Week.
Even more important, our Blog now begins on the Home Page as well, making it easier for you to read our take on breaking issues and to comment back. We hope the result will be a Blog that’s livelier and more interactive, leading to more fruitful exchanges of views, ideas and strategies for moving carbon taxing forward.
If you’re a new visitor, welcome to the site. Look around, read up on the issues, fortify yourself with arguments, and join the discussion.
To visitors old, new and in between, thanks for coming by. Let us know what you like (or don’t) about the site and how you think it could be improved. If you’ve got a Blog piece for us, send it (via info@carbontax.org). If you’re moved to contribute to our work, please do so. Your contribution (yes, it can be tax-deductible) sustains our commitment and supports our work.
Thank you. — Charles Komanoff & Dan Rosenblum
OECD warns against biofuels subsidies — recommends carbon taxes
The report recommends governments phase out biofuel subsidies, using “technology-neutral” carbon taxes instead to allow the market to find the most efficient ways of reducing greenhouse gases.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e780d216-5fd5-11dc-b0fe-0000779fd2ac.html
Comment by socialscientist — September 12, 2007 @ 7:05 am
Charles & Dan, nice makeover. I especially like the green box on the front page highlighting different details. One thought I had was for the box explaining the 10 cents per gallon per year leading to 30% emission reduction would be to mention how much that 10 cents means each person/family will get back at the end of the year as the tax is distributed. If you mention the dividend amount every time you mention the tax amount, it may start to seem less painful to people.
Comment by Bob Arning — September 13, 2007 @ 7:20 am
Another thought: for the numerate among us it would be nice to summarize the spreadsheets, etc that may be referenced somewhere on the site. I just found the Carbon Tax for Colorado data and am starting to look at it. How many other spreadsheets exist?
Comment by Bob Arning — September 13, 2007 @ 8:33 am