Re: A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax
jmhayes@speakeasy.net wrote:
What’s wrong is that the price of oil doesn’t reflect the environmental damage it does. Externalities and all that.
As opposed to everything else that does capture this cost? Like farming?
Anyway, you know we’re going to burn all of it, no matter if it’s $60/bbl or $600. You’re not going to “convince” people to stop burning it until there’s something more profitable to burn. Our only hope is to get there sooner rather than later.
I don’t know how to tell you this, but if we burn all of it we will die. Or something nearly as bad.
Doug