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by trompetenaccoun 1124 days ago
>A carbon tax essentially charges a fee on greenhouse gas emissions, aiming to account for their environmental impact

Your own link disagrees with that, it describes it as a tax that, depending on the country:

- "applied to fuel, coal, and natural gas"

- "mainly covers the use of fuels"

- "covered natural gas, petroleum, and other mineral fuels, except biofuel"

- "a tax on fossil fuels, petroleum products, natural gas, and coal"

The user who proposed this as a solution above has the same misunderstanding. What they described when I asked about the details sounds like simply another tax on fuel, on top of the already existing tax. It's not a "carbon" tax at all, it's a fuel tax.