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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

On Carbon, Tax and Don’t Spend

The following op-ed piece from the NY Times offers an interesting perspective on the subject of carbon taxation. It uses Denmark as an example of how a carbon tax can work, but with a twist - all tax revenues were returned to the industrial companies paying them as subsidies for the adoption of clean technologies or energy sources.

Read the article.

Labels: economy, energy policy