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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (243338)	1/29/2014 12:54:12 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541771

re...Well, do we want raise our taxes to pay the Canadians for the energy they won't get to sell how bout we charge them a use fee...for crapping in the (our) atmosphere..... Dr James Hansen...suggests...150 $$ per ton.............(or about..450/ton for CO2).....for each ton of pure carbon.. (the 2 + parts O...comes from the well shared atmosphere..) wwwp.dailyclimate.org

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (243338)	1/29/2014 1:07:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541771

"do we want raise our taxes to pay the Canadians for the energy they won't get to sell Nope. It's their loss. They shudda done this in '55, or even '73, when nobody was paying attention. They snoozed, they can lose. I wouldn't mind raising taxes so we use less, tho. His Hansen) proposal calls for a “simple, honest” carbon fee, collected from fossil-fuel companies upon the first sale at the mine, wellhead or port of entry. The money collected via this fee would be distributed to the public as a monthly “dividend” or “green check.” Distributing all of the revenue equitably to households will ensure that families can afford the energy they need during the transition to a clean energy future, and it should help win public support for a rising carbon fee. carbontax.org I'd means test it, so half the money goes into green infrastructure stuff, rather than the wallets of the well-off, which is actually what I want... well off.