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A Tax on Energy is a Tax on Everything
Because energy is central to the way Americans live, making energy more expensive by raising taxes on it amounts to a tax on all Americans. Higher energy taxes = less energy.[read more]
The $1 Trillion Choice
While the White House talks again about raising taxes on oil and natural gas companies, let’s look at the starkly different outcomes – in terms of revenue for government – from two policy paths.[read more]
Imagine What A Real Cap Could Do
RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, has capped carbon dioxide emissions in ten northeastern U.S. states. Well, it isn’t much of a cap, given how loose it really is. Still, the latest analysis that tries to follow the money points to $1.6 billion in economic benefits for the economies in these ten states....[read more]
Learn to Love the Gas Tax
The North Carolina legislature just narrowly derailed a bill that would have prevented any possible increase in the state's gasoline tax. That's a good thing. By that I mean it's good that the state Senate declined to act on the bill after it passed in the House. You see, if enacted, the state's 35 cent per gallon...[read more]
Carbon Tax May Be The ‘Least, Terrible’ Option for 2013 Revenue
As the next Congress goes to work in January 2013, this scenario could play out almost purely because it makes the ‘math’ work for a workable fiscal policy. If Barack Obama is re-elected President and Democrats regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives — or not — there almost surely will come a time when federal lawmakers...[read more]
Cap and Trade: Right Debate, Wrong Solution
From Green Gold Blog David Gold heads up cleantech investments for Access Venture Partners and previously spent time in public policy and as an entrepreneur. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As we have seen in just the past few years, fossil fuel prices can vary dramatically over very...[read more]
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“I believe that the FF companies, since they have the money to do so at this time, will invest in the machine automation required to mass produce batteries and solar. The object is to extract the cheapest, most abundant sources for these new energy components.As something to think about, solar's growth averaged about 33% and as of 2012, was a whopping 78%. Now, if subsidies were reduced to where ...”
“It's pretty clear Alberta and thus Canada house certain political and financial powers that point to being the head quarters of the so-called 1%. I'm glad to finally see signs of people and organizations awakening from within the country. The only means we have to break the beast's ugly neck is to reject globalization and make ourselves as independant as we can from fossil fuels. ”