Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, the leaders of the carbophobes in British Columbia are already declaring victory for their carbon-based energy tax as a way to reduce CO2 emissions.…
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Fuel On The Highway In British Pre-Columbia
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Supporters of the British Columbia (Canada) carbon-based energy tax that I discussed in my last post have made claims that the data shows this tax…
British Columbia, British Utopia
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See also the follow-on post entitled “Why Revenue Neutral Isn’t” I was pointed by a commenter on another blog to the Canadian Province of British…
Pump Price, Miles Driven, and Energy Taxes
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired (as I often am) by either the insights or the foolishness of a guest post at Judith Curry’s always-provocative blog, I decided to take…
An Evidence-Based Approach To Pricing CO2 Emissions
PRESS RELEASE New Paper Proposes Cost-Effective Climate Policy That Gets Around Key Scientific Uncertainties London: A new paper, published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, proposes a radical new…
Australia’s Carbon Tax – One Year On
Is it responsible for reduced CO2 emissions in the electricity sector? Guest essay by Phil Hutchings The Australian carbon tax of A$23/t of CO2 became effective one year ago on…
King Canuccitelli plans to tax carbon right out of the air
Many readers know the story of the Viking turned King who was said to be able to hold back the sea, only to realize that he had no such power.…
Congressional Budget Office says US carbon tax will generate $1.2 trillion
Lance Wallace writes in Tips and Notes: The Congressional Budget Office has released an analysis of the effects of a carbon tax. At $20 a ton. they estimate about $1.2…
Forget the need for a U.S. carbon tax – the economy has put a big dent in gasoline use and driving
UPDATED: see below A few days ago I did a report on the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) numbers for carbon dioxide emissions, showing that it was clearly down, and…
Climate Craziness of the Week – the new climate forcing
Taxes are the new climate forcing. I kid you not. From the NYT, columnist Gail Collins:
FOIA and the coming US Carbon Tax via the US Treasury
Guest Post by Christopher Horner, CEI In November, I and CEI sued the Department of the Treasury to produce emails and other records mentioning “carbon”. See Joint_Scheduling_Agreement PDF I sought…
Obama By-Passes Gas
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach President Obama continues his Global War on Cheap Energy™, this time under the guise of avoiding “spikes” in gasoline (petrol) prices. He wants to pass…
James Hansen's Policies Are Shafting The Poor
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading an interview with Adrian Bejan (worth taking a look at), and I got to musing about his comments regarding the relationship between…
Oh that's gonna leave a mark – EU carbon trading 'worthless'
From the I’ve been telling you so for some time now department comes this headline from Bloomberg. And it is getting desperate in the carbon market. Readers may recall last…
What's up with RGGI? Moving the cap down.
Guest post by Ric Werme Things have been pretty quiet in the northeast’s the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). New Jersey has gotten out and remains out, New Hampshire didn’t…
A carbon tax is climatically useless
Guest post by Chipp Knappenberger – reposted from Master Resource by request “No matter how much you pay with a carbon levy, virtually nothing is received climatically…. No matter the…
EU aircraft carbon emissions tax crashes and burns
From the BBC comes this bit of good news: EU suspends aircraft emissions trading rules The European Union has agreed to suspend its rules that require airlines flying to and…
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