http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2009/05/29/wax-a-mole-moles-lead-85-to-15/ Pricing carbon efficiently and equitably Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2009/05/29/wax-a-mole-moles-lead-85-to-15/comment-page-1/#comment-92055 robert spear Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:06:47 +0000 http://www.carbontax.org/?p=2251#comment-92055 Why trade at all? Why not just tax all carbon emissions at ever-increasing rates, until we 1) get off the foreign oil addiction and 2) reduce carbon emissions to safe levels? This seems so obvious it hurts. The bill might be 10 pages instead of 900. Why trade at all? Why not just tax all carbon emissions at ever-increasing rates, until we 1) get off the foreign oil addiction and 2) reduce carbon emissions to safe levels? This seems so obvious it hurts. The bill might be 10 pages instead of 900.

]]> http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2009/05/29/wax-a-mole-moles-lead-85-to-15/comment-page-1/#comment-86447 The Cap and Trade Bill, Interpreted by CCAN | FUTURISM NOW Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:04:27 +0000 http://www.carbontax.org/?p=2251#comment-86447 [...] Below is the Waxman-Markey bill (cap and trade) interpreted for everyone, by  Ted Glick, who’s the Policy Director at  Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Reportedly, those who have crunched the numbers don’t agree that the bill would get anything like the 83% reductions claimed. One best case, more like 46%. See: Wanted: Cloudsplitter and Wax-A-Mole: Moles Lead 85 to 15. [...] [...] Below is the Waxman-Markey bill (cap and trade) interpreted for everyone, by  Ted Glick, who’s the Policy Director at  Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Reportedly, those who have crunched the numbers don’t agree that the bill would get anything like the 83% reductions claimed. One best case, more like 46%. See: Wanted: Cloudsplitter and Wax-A-Mole: Moles Lead 85 to 15. [...]

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