With gas at $3.50 a gallon in April, the U.S. mainstream media is replete with stories of drivers abandoning SUV’s, hopping on mass transit, and otherwise cutting back on gasoline. Yet a year or two ago, when pump prices were approaching and even passing the $3.00 “barrier,” the media mantra was that demand for gasoline was so inelastic that high prices were barely making a dent in usage. …
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We Explain Gasoline Demand (including why it’s sticky)
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Car and Driver: Plummeting Auto Sales Show Value Of Putting A Price On carbon (Wash. Post editorial)
http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/05/12/car-and-driver-plummeting-auto-sales-show-value-of-putting-a-price-on-carbon-wash-post-editorial/Car and Driver: Plummeting Auto Sales Show Value Of Putting A Price On carbon (Wash. Post editorial)…
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Why Pump Prices Need to Stay High: A Tax on Fossil Fuels Will Cut Greenhouse Gases - As Sweden Has Done Since 1991
http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2008/05/11/why-pump-prices-need-to-stay-high-a-tax-on-fossil-fuels-will-cut-greenhouse-gases-as-sweden-has-done-since-1991/Why Pump Prices Need to Stay High: A Tax on Fossil Fuels Will Cut Greenhouse Gases - As Sweden Has Done Since 1991 (Christian Science Monitor) …
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Finely Tuned Future
http://www.finelytunedfuture.com911truth.org bethemedia.org c-span.org/watch/ carbon tax center democracynow.org freepress.net george washington's blog human rights watch mother earth news natural news stop big media union of concerned scientists
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Understanding and marketing to GREEN consumers
http://blog.andrewkinnear.com/2008/05/understanding-and-mark...of government. Government influences Industry via policy (via their wallet) which leads to actionable change by industry, and a possible improvement. Without a motivation by businesses to save money for example, by reducing emissions to avoid a carbon tax, industry won't change, and we'll see no such improvement.
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Carbon trading blasted by indigenous groups
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/6/112852/6216without actually contributing to solving global warming. The highly respected Institute for Policy Studies seems to think so, too [PDF]. Very odd of them to take such a position. Because, after all, there are no alternatives to carbon trading.
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Carbon trading blasted by indigenous groups
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/6/112852/6216without actually contributing to solving global warming. The highly respected Institute for Policy Studies seems to think so, too [PDF]. Very odd of them to take such a position. Because, after all, there are no alternatives to carbon trading.
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Carbon trading blasted by indigenous groups
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/6/112852/6216without actually contributing to solving global warming. The highly respected Institute for Policy Studies seems to think so, too [PDF]. Very odd of them to take such a position. Because, after all, there are no alternatives to carbon trading.
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Americans grow up
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/4/204737/7867Clinton and the gas tax holiday, I didn't imagine that a plurality of my fellow citizens might be ready to embrace my conclusion: that this century's defining energy policy issue is energy prices that tell the truth. Okay, it's just one poll, and a carbon tax isn't necessarily around the next corner. But for someone who has toiled for decades for measures to internalize the external costs of everything from nukes and jet skis to driving and carbon, this poll is sweet indeed.
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Americans grow up
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/4/204737/7867Clinton and the gas tax holiday, I didn't imagine that a plurality of my fellow citizens might be ready to embrace my conclusion: that this century's defining energy policy issue is energy prices that tell the truth. Okay, it's just one poll, and a carbon tax isn't necessarily around the next corner. But for someone who has toiled for decades for measures to internalize the external costs of everything from nukes and jet skis to driving and carbon, this poll is sweet indeed.
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Americans grow up
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/4/204737/7867Clinton and the gas tax holiday, I didn't imagine that a plurality of my fellow citizens might be ready to embrace my conclusion: that this century's defining energy policy issue is energy prices that tell the truth. Okay, it's just one poll, and a carbon tax isn't necessarily around the next corner. But for someone who has toiled for decades for measures to internalize the external costs of everything from nukes and jet skis to driving and carbon, this poll is sweet indeed.
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blocksmith — Out of the forge, a better city
http://www.blocksmith.orgBlogroll BeyondDC Carbon Tax Blog Creative Class Exchange Free Public Transit Greater Greater Washington Gristmill Planetizen Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space Smart Growth America Streetsblog The Bellows The Goodspeed Update The Overhead Wire
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An open letter to Congress
http://www.carbonfees.org/home/?p=9Christian Science Monitor, “A Tax on Carbon to Cool the Planet”, October 26, 2007 http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1026/p08s01-comv.html and Al Gore’s Inconvenient Tax http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0705/p08s01-comv.html Carbon Tax Center, http://www.carbontax.org/issues/carbon-taxes-vs-cap-and-trade/ Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions, dated February 2008, www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/89xx/doc8934/02-12-Carbon.pdf (while not making recommendations, this report cites carbon taxes as an efficient mechanism.)
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