Al Gore’s Inconvenient Tax: What You Probably Won’t Hear at the Live Earth Concert: a Call for Higher Taxes on Gasoline and Fuel July 6, 2007 By Charles Komanoff Al Gore’s Inconvenient Tax: What You Probably Won’t Hear at the Live Earth Concert: a Call for Higher Taxes on Gasoline and Fuel (Christian Science Monitor – The Monitor’s View) “Putting a crimp on global warming can’t be done solely by promoting new energy technologies and voluntary conservation. Consumers of oil and coal need a direct tax shock.”