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OT - new carbon tax 25-Feb-2011 At 6:36:24 PM JamesMc

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We need a price on carbon, otherwise everyone will just generate more CO2.

Take CO2 from cars for example. In America, petrol is cheap and they have laws that limit the fuel consumption of cars. (Ie they tried to push responsiblity for saving fuel onto the car makers rather than the car users.) So what do Americans do? They buy SUVs to get around the stricter passenger car consumption limits and then they drive everywhere. In Europe where petrol is highly taxed, they buy small cars and don't drive much. Australia has moderate fuel tax so we are somewhere in between.

As for poor people not being able to reduce their emissions, I reckon that's a furphy. Cheap cars mostly use less fuel than expensive cars, simply because they're smaller.

JamesMc