Energy Policy

Energy policy – Sept 18

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Let’s talk gas tax
Kunstler’s ‘wild hair’ column
Liberal Dems unveil plans for ‘green’ car tax
Critics: World Bank energy scheme misguided
US cuts funds for 2 renewable energy sources
The good news about oil prices is the bad news
California, taking big gamble, tries to curb greenhouse gases

Gore says tax CO2, not payrolls

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In a major cliimate-change speech today at the NYU School of Law, Al Gore proposed:
– an immediate freeze on CO2 emissions
– replacing the payroll tax with pollution taxes
– joining the Kyoto Treaty
– looking for solutions not in a silver bullet but in “silver buckshot.”

Clinton reads Heinberg on peak oil

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“I borrowed a book from [Bill Clinton] that he had just read—The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg, not exactly summer reading—and it was full of underlinings and what looked like the most serious undergraduate’s markings, with lots of exclamation points.”