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Reducing Carbon EmissionsFrom Cars
If our government was serious about reducing carbon emissions they would be doing something about it. A good place to start would be to introduce a "Carbon Tax" based on the number of cars that you own and the number of cylinders in the engine. Lets face it. If people have enough money to buy these big, V8 modes of transport and be wealthy enough to be able to fuel these things up at the current fuel prices, well they can afford the tax. The taxes could then be channelled into enviromentally friendly programs and reaserching green energy solutions. Another way to reduce emissions would be to have odds and evens days based on your number plates. Only being allowed to drive your car every second day is really going to encourage car pooling, not to mention it would HALVE emissions without costing the consumer one cent. I can hear the oil companies screaming in panick as their profits are instantly halved. Ha Ha Discuss.
Submitted by Mick on 10 March 2007 - 6:10am.
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There seems to be a
There seems to be a universal assumption, even among environmentalists, that we all have some inalienable human right to use cars in the first place. The solutions that follow are all merely tinkerings with our practice of using cars when we do not have to.
I think that use of a car should be a privilege reserved only for the sick, disabled, elderly and transporters of goods and children.
The word bicycle is often ridiculed out of a truly deranged phobia of getting fit.
This is a serious business, widespread death for future generations, but nobody even dreams of banishing the biggest cause of it.
reducing carbon emissions from all fossil fuels
I like the second idea the best Mick, since it actually enforces something rather than relying on the market to save us.
But wouldn't the carbon tax work much better if was applied on fossil fuels, at the root of the cycle, rather than setting up some far more complex system to charge people at the point of purchase later on. Any company that purchased a fossil fuel, be it for their power station, their petrol station, what ever, would pay a tax on the tonnage of carbon dioxide that would result from the burning of that fuel in average circumstances.