Plus the INVESTED money goes straight back INTO the economy, via all those people who will make their livings installing solar systems and wind turbines and geothermal systems and doing research into them.
By taxing the s--t out of Big Oil, the $$$ of fuel goes up, enabling other green energy sources to become viable commodities AND options. This is unlike the Republican plan of "don't tax and spend", which leads to market failure AND big debt. Democrats may consider this "tax and INVEST", a better philosophy.
A) we have, since the 18th century, been slowly pumping most of the coal and nearly all of the oil that was underground into the atmosphere. Pump enough of anything into the atmosphere, and you are going to change the weather. Single volcanoes can alter the weather massively for years.B) The temperature IS going up. There are no glaciers that are growing, all are shrinking, for example.C) Even if the world was NOT warming, we are burning through our reserves, particularly of oil, at an alarming rate. All this talk of global warming will slow our consumption of oil and spur our investment in renewable energy sources, ie, ones that do not run out at some point.D) The oil companies' profiteering is adding far more to the cost of fuel than any pollution tax.-That being said, I believe that any revenues from energy taxes and trading schemes should be directly invested in renewable energy and fuel efficiency, and its use as government or commercial revenue should be restricted.
Plus the INVESTED money goes straight back INTO the economy, via all those people who will make their livings installing solar systems and wind turbines and geothermal systems and doing research into them.
By taxing the s--t out of Big Oil, the $$$ of fuel goes up, enabling other green energy sources to become viable commodities AND options. This is unlike the Republican plan of "don't tax and spend", which leads to market failure AND big debt. Democrats may consider this "tax and INVEST", a better philosophy.
A) we have, since the 18th century, been slowly pumping most of the coal and nearly all of the oil that was underground into the atmosphere. Pump enough of anything into the atmosphere, and you are going to change the weather. Single volcanoes can alter the weather massively for years.B) The temperature IS going up. There are no glaciers that are growing, all are shrinking, for example.C) Even if the world was NOT warming, we are burning through our reserves, particularly of oil, at an alarming rate. All this talk of global warming will slow our consumption of oil and spur our investment in renewable energy sources, ie, ones that do not run out at some point.D) The oil companies' profiteering is adding far more to the cost of fuel than any pollution tax.-That being said, I believe that any revenues from energy taxes and trading schemes should be directly invested in renewable energy and fuel efficiency, and its use as government or commercial revenue should be restricted.