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 Stories About: Big Oil AND carbon tax AND carbon trading AND energy AND oil
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Staying hooked on oil is expensive, too
Gas pricing, Big Oil, and carbon pricing |
Eric de Place |
22 Feb 2008 |
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| Apropos of British Columbia's big announcement, I have some ranting to get off my chest. One of the most frustrating things about U.S. climate policy is the reflexive fear that if we ever raise the price of gas -- or of driving generally -- people will riot in the streets or something. This makes it exceedingly difficult to rearrange the economy away from oil and its carbon contents. But, of course, the price of gas keeps rising anyway. In fact, crude oil prices h ... |
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| Topics: Big Oil, carbon tax, carbon trading, energy, oil (all these topics) |
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