Rulian wrote:Did67, I'm a million times in agreement with you !!
Friendly. I felt a little Martian on this thread and wondered if I was going to stop posting !!!
(But I'll be so happy that a million people once agree with me!)
Did67 wrote:Rulian wrote:Did67, I'm a million times in agreement with you !!
Friendly. I felt a little Martian on this thread and wondered if I was going to stop posting !!!
(But I'll be so happy that a million people once agree with me!)
former oceanic wrote:
For electricity it will be necessary to take into account the share of fossil energy used to produce electricity.
The carbon tax? A success in Boulder, a small town in Colorado
While in France, the introduction of a carbon tax is causing fierce debates, the municipality of Boulder, Colorado, has quietly doubled the amount of its own. At the heart of a country not very sensitive to ecology and a nation allergic to taxes, [b] this city of 100 inhabitants, nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, was the first in the world to implement , in 000, a local "climate-energy contribution".
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The carbon tax has been approved at 60%. All of the big decisions in Boulder have been community driven. "
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Unlike the federal state, Boulder adhered to the Kyoto Protocol, which requires it to drop 20% its CO2 emissions by 2012. Here, electricity consumption, produced by coal and gas plants, generates the bulk of emissions. The carbon tax is therefore calculated in proportion to the electricity bill and levied by the operator XCel Energy, which transfers it to the city.
Residences, businesses, industries: all subscribers pay. The only way out: "If the consumer asks to receive a share of electricity from renewable sources, which is a little more expensive to purchase, he does not pay a tax on this green energy", specifies Jonathan Koehn, responsible for the environment in the city. The average cost until now has been $ 16 per year for a household, $ 45 for a business. We'll have to double the stake.
And his bullshit ?? He assumes it ??The contradictions of Xavier Bertrand
The carbon tax continues to provoke debate and controversy. Until Xavier Bertrand, the secretary general of the UMP, say everything and its opposite in less than forty-eight hours. On Wednesday 2 September, the former Labor Minister was the guest of RMC. He said: "The carbon tax will not be another tax. I am not playing with words."
Two days later, Friday September 4, the same Xavier Bertrand gave an interview to Le Figaro, in which he said: "We will be in the direction of history. I will not play with words: the energy contribution is a tax, I assume it. "
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