Comments on: No April Fool: Coal Industry Asks For $1 Billion Tax On Fossil Fuels http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/april-fool-carbon-tax/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: tboggia http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/april-fool-carbon-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-494 tboggia Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:49:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/01/april-fool-carbon-tax/#comment-494 Not only that, they are charging the American people for the externalities of their dirty industry and for R&D they should have done ages ago instead of financing climate deniers. CCS doesn't deserve a dime of our money (and by our I mean the millennials' money since I assume the cost of this will just be another addition to the huge debts that Babyboomers are leaving us). The carbon tax should go to energy efficiency programs (with jobs as pathways out of poverty), our "cleanest source of energy" (as the Alliance to Save Energy would say). Not only that, they are charging the American people for the externalities of their dirty industry and for R&D they should have done ages ago instead of financing climate deniers.

CCS doesn’t deserve a dime of our money (and by our I mean the millennials’ money since I assume the cost of this will just be another addition to the huge debts that Babyboomers are leaving us). The carbon tax should go to energy efficiency programs (with jobs as pathways out of poverty), our “cleanest source of energy” (as the Alliance to Save Energy would say).

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