http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Comments & Reviews of http://gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america/ on StumbleUpon en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:13:49 -0800 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:32:53 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:34:00 -0700 http://brmwk.stumbleupon.com/review/19631387/ brmwk - Way to go green Canada.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:20:12 -0700 http://bebf.stumbleupon.com/review/19630889/ Bebf - Beginning July 1st, 2008, businesses and residents of British Columbia will be taxed $10 per metric ton of carbon emitted by fuels such as gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, propane, and home heating fuel. The tax will increase yearly by $5 per ton to $30 per ton in 2012, at which point the government will reevaluate the tax rate.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:18:49 -0700 http://andromida.stumbleupon.com/review/19624274/ Andromida - I think starting a tax out low and slowly increasing it will be a good thing. I hope it proves successful. Although a great idea, I also know that in the U.S people would surely be much more opposed to it.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:32:00 -0700 http://snodog.stumbleupon.com/review/19622613/ snodog - Complete and utter nonsense! I can not believe what these people are happy about another useless tax! There is no hope for us anymore. We all deserve this crap hole we live in. Oh ya if you send me money I will save the planet too!!]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:30:14 -0700 http://elforko.stumbleupon.com/review/19620292/ ElForko - British Columbia will soon have a carbon tax. We'll see how it works out, being right next door to us and all.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:22:17 -0700 http://wavehunter.stumbleupon.com/review/19617467/ Wavehunter - Taxing carbon and returning the revenue to the economy through grants and tax cuts, starting small and getting bigger, seems to me a pretty good way forward. Well done to British Columbia and, apparently, Quebec. Every government should be doing this or, if not, come up with something even better.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:53:45 -0700 http://planetthoughts.stumbleupon.com/review/19616370/ PlanetThoughts - This is an important step by one province in Canada (British Columbia). At least this taxing of carbon emissions can provide a model for all the other countries that are less imaginative or more fearful. From the page: "Beginning July 1st, 2008, businesses and residents of British Columbia will be taxed $10 per metric ton of carbon emitted by fuels such as gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, propane, and home heating fuel. The tax will increase yearly by $5 per ton to $30 per ton in 2012, at which point the government will reevaluate the tax rate. Nicholas Rivers, an economist at Simon Fraser University, commented that the tax comes in slowly, ramps up over time, and uses the revenue in a neutral way to reduce other distortionary taxes in the economy, which is just what economists have been recommending for more than a decade.ť"]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:00:06 -0700 http://greenbodie.stumbleupon.com/review/19605346/ greenbodie - From the page: "British Columbia will be the first in North America to institute a comprehensive carbon tax on nearly all fossil fuels. Itâ€s a groundbreaking move that could prove the feasibility of taxing greenhouse-gas emissions. Beginning July 1st, 2008, businesses and residents of British Columbia will be taxed $10 per metric ton of carbon emitted by fuels such as gasoline, diesel, natural gas, coal, propane, and home heating fuel. The tax will increase yearly by $5 per ton to $30 per ton in 2012, at which point the government will reevaluate the tax rate."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/gas2.org/2008/04/05/canada-unleashes-first-carbon-tax-in-n-america