[ExI] Richard Lindzen on climate hysteria

spike spike66 at att.net
Wed Aug 5 02:02:19 UTC 2009


...  
> > Damien Sullivan wrote:
> > 
> > > Raise fossil carbon taxes high enough and the...
> > 
> > ...government gets thrown out on their asses.  As they 
> should.  spike
> 
> "Polluter pays" isn't a principle in your world, I guess.
> 
> Pollution taxes could be redistributed per capita, so as to 
> be revenue-neutral to the government and to the average 
> consumer, but increasing incentives for savings (e.g. saving 
> $6/gallon instead of $2).  Market forces at work.
> 
> -xx- Damien X-)

Ja, I got that, but as soon as we redefine CO2 emissions as "pollution" then
everyone is a polluter, and we toss those who say CO2 emissions are
pollution, replace them with those who say pollution is smoke and poisons.
Polluter pays is OK, but not CO2 = pollution.

spike






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