[SustainableTompkins] carbon credits? How about real cost

[Andy Bailey Goodell]

What should really happen is that the products and services we pay for need
to reflect the ACTUAL price. Gas is not $3 a gallon. Figure in a good
portion of the cost of war and a lot of our taxes and it probably comes to
$100 a gallon in ACTUAL price. Same with most food found in grocery stores,
we all know that doesn't reflect the real price it took to make these
products "contaminated" with corn syrup.

It would help reduce Americans' consumerism problems too! 


Andy Goodell
(603) 831-0356

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[mailto:sustainabletompkins-bounces at lists.mutualaid.org] On Behalf Of Joel
and Sarah Gagnon
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [SustainableTompkins] best way to store carbon discovered!

I think the cap and trade proponents would argue that that approach would
also work, but a carbon tax seems complicated enough to me. Trouble is, it
will require a groundswell of popular support to get it implemented in the
face of fierce resistance by those whose profits will be threatened. That
needs to happen, and I hope and pray that it will.

Joel

At 01:43 PM 12/13/07 -0500, you wrote:
>I think Monbiot probably does support a carbon tax; I certainly do. The 
>only way I can see most coal being left in the ground is if there is a 
>substantial tax on it "upstream" of its being
>used: that is, the moment it leaves the ground.
>
>Margaret
>
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