[Gllug] [OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Richard Jones wrote:

> Right, but the externality comes _directly_ from burning fossil fuels to
> fill up the atmosphere with unwanted cardon dioxide.  So why not just
> tax the fossil fuels?

We already tax the fossil fuels. 

The problem is not that we don't tax enough but rather than we do not 
provide a carrot to encourage more efficience and less poluting systems in 
a reasonable way alongside the stick of high taxes.

While you can get some tax breaks for using the very best (and most 
expensive) of the newer "green" cars we still have higher taxes on deisel 
than petrol yet petrol is less efficient by a long way.

Let's be clear about one thing - taxes are not about changing behaviour 
(they just don't work to do so) but rather about raising revenue.

Jason
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