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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (243351)	1/30/2014 9:21:07 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

"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. Well OK, but first we would have to do it here before we prevailed upon Canada to get with the program. If the "Greens" were sensible that's what they would be working on instead of opposing the Keystone.