[Greenbuilding] Carbon and Nitrogen taxes - was drying clothes

[sanjay jain]

hmm... I thought that the carbon tax idea was just a tax on consuming fossil fuel, not actual emissions.


In practical terms, I can see how you can put a tax on gas, but how do you put a tax on emissions? Especially small scale industry? 



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From: Jason Holstine <jason at amicusgreen.com>
To: sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk>; Greenbuilding Listserv <Greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
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Re: [Greenbuilding] Carbon and Nitrogen taxes - was drying clothes A carbon tax would be the nickname but it would be indexed against GWP – global warming potential, and different gases have assigned GWP multipliers that the tax would be calculated against. This is of course assuming we’re on a different planet for the talk of a carbon tax to begin with.
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