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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7713)	11/25/2006 2:17:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12246

Hi again Ashley. I see in The New Zealand Herald today nzherald.co.nz that Toyota has called for a carbon tax, as well as a countervailing reduction in company and personal income tax. Gee, they are slow. I was calling for that in 1985 [but my boss Nelson Cull told me that it wasn't what he thought was a good idea and since I wasn't the boss, I didn't get far with it at the time]. Toyota is ahead of the game on low CO2 production vehicles, so it would be good for them to have money saved on fuel and people pushed towards their vehicles rather than General Motors monster SUVs burning gallons per minute. But I would make the countervailing tax cut on very low carbon dioxide production items, such as CDMA-powered cyberphones, which also have the advantage of avoiding carbon-burning activity. One can order things delivered [couriers are fuel-efficient since one trip makes many deliveries in the same area and the drivers know what they are doing instead of blocking roads], or communicate, or otherwise move information around in mobile cyberspace, instead of mobile SUVs. If the government just cuts general personal tax, then people will blow the savings on a 747 trip to Disneyland and you can imagine how much carbon dioxide that would produce. The airline would tank up in a no-tax country [such as Dubai] and freight fuel around. Okay, I admit to being self-serving there, limiting the cut to CDMA, but at first glance, it does make sense to preferentially cut taxes on specific low carbon activities rather than general taxes. GSM shouldn't get the benefit as it's old technology unsuited to cyberspace efficiencies. Mqurice

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