DoctorDoom
03-31-2007, 08:18 AM
(CNSNews.com) - Taxes on carbon emissions and gasoline are the most efficient and fair way to spur reductions in carbon emissions and dependence on gasoline, according to a panel of economists speaking Thursday in Washington, D.C.
"Once we get people incentivized to conserve gasoline, we don't need the government to do research [into alternative fuels]. The private sector will do the research," Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw said during the discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.
Mankiw, a former economic advisor to President Bush, said he supports taxing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a way to reduce "greenhouse gases" that some scientists believe are affecting global temperatures.
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Mankiw said he would support carbon and gasoline taxes, even if science proved that global warming was not linked to CO2 emissions, because of the impact such taxes would have on other externalities such as urban congestion and vehicle accident rates.CO2 Tax Could Cut Emissions and Reduce Other Taxes, Economists Say (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070330a.html)
The last paragraph exposes the agenda of the global warming wackos. It's not about science. It's about politics, power and social engineering. It's about insufferable elitists ramming their us-vs-them mentality down the throats of the little people in the form of a pseudoscientific religion.
"Once we get people incentivized to conserve gasoline, we don't need the government to do research [into alternative fuels]. The private sector will do the research," Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw said during the discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.
Mankiw, a former economic advisor to President Bush, said he supports taxing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a way to reduce "greenhouse gases" that some scientists believe are affecting global temperatures.
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Mankiw said he would support carbon and gasoline taxes, even if science proved that global warming was not linked to CO2 emissions, because of the impact such taxes would have on other externalities such as urban congestion and vehicle accident rates.CO2 Tax Could Cut Emissions and Reduce Other Taxes, Economists Say (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070330a.html)
The last paragraph exposes the agenda of the global warming wackos. It's not about science. It's about politics, power and social engineering. It's about insufferable elitists ramming their us-vs-them mentality down the throats of the little people in the form of a pseudoscientific religion.