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by sparkie 2757 days ago
The costs are always passed on to the consumer in the end. It makes no difference to the big energy companies.

In fact, it creates the perverse incentive that the legislature are generating so much income from carbon taxes that they will not want it to stop. Imagine that they're taking 2% of GDP and someone comes along and promises low-carbon energy solutions. The government is then going to lose 2% of their budget. They won't want that.
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vkou 2757 days ago
> The costs are always passed on to the consumer in the end.

When the costs are passed on to the consumer, I can discriminate between GHG-intensive products, and non-polluting products, by price.

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fhood 2757 days ago
I can't be 100% sure that you are incorrect. But given how much the price of gas affects the market for fuel efficient cars, I cannot imagine that making polluting technologies more expensive would not cause manufacturers to pivot to greener methods.
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