Correction Please
Carbon Tax Flapdoodle
Item: “There is little doubt among scientists and economists … that putting a price on carbon is essential in the effort to reduced fossil fuel dependence,” asserted the New York Times for December 7, 2018. “The question is how to design a carbon tax, and how to cushion the blow for the most vulnerable.”
Item: In the midst of violent protests in France sparked by increased fuel taxes (before the latest UN conference on climate change in Poland), the Washington Post for December 7 blasted what it called the “stubborn” “reliance on cheap, indigenous, plentiful coal,” saying this shows “how hard transforming national energy policies can be, even in relatively rich, socially conscious Europe, where state-supported industries and already high taxes make new choices politically costly.”
Item: Canada is also attacking “carbon” in the name of the environment. According to the Canadian Press news agency (October 23), Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick had not complied with federal demands “and will have a federal carbon levy on fuels as well as a cap-and-trade style of system for large industrial emitters imposed on them.”
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