[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Dec 2, 1:33 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> AEF wrote:
> > Instead of throwing money at "green technologies", one should tax CO2.
>
> From  planetary point of view, the only CO2 which hurts the planet is
> the CO2 that has been sequesterred deed unde rthe surface for millenia,
> namely oil and coal.
>
> The CO2 produced by cows is not "new" CO2. It is carbon that is part of
> the cycle , in air, absorved by grass, eaten by cows and come out of
> their manure back into the air.
>
> Similarly, a company that gets carbon from CO2 extraction from air
> should not have its CO2 taxed.
>
> The problem is that oil and coal lobbies are too strong to accept that
> oil and coal be taxed at the source. But those are the industries which
> add carbon to the atmosphere.
>
> It would be far simpler to just tax oil and coal at the mine/drill site
> than to have taxes added at the retail level.
>
> And this woudl give manufacturers more choces on where to source their
> energy and/or carbon.

Fine. Tax it your way. My point was touse market forces