mmcconne’s Recent Comments

• Click here to view comment in original post

  Revenue

  Does anyone know if there are specific plans for the revenue?  Could it be applied to bottle-specific costs?  Clean-up, health concerns...
  On Chicago will levy bottled-water tax, Big Bottle plans to sue posted 1 year, 11 months ago 2 Responses

• Click here to view comment in original post

  The tax

  I believe Mr. Avent misses the point of the carbon tax.  The tax changes the market by associating a cost to the individual with the social cost of emitting carbon.  That money should then be used to pay to "fix" the damage done by the emission.  Eventually, as emissions decrease, the marginal cost of emitting could hopefully  become insignificant as natural systems will take care of a certain amount to carbon in the atmosphere.  The point is that we must regain an equilibrium.

  The creation of a tax in no way takes away from the value of other programs such as CAFE.  I absolutely agree that this must happen, especially in our current political climate.On The CAFE standards vs. carbon tax debate is more complicated than we imagine posted 2 years, 1 month ago 19 Responses