{"id":37614,"date":"2019-02-09T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37614"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:47:28","slug":"qotd-the-global-utility-of-a-national-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/qotd-the-global-utility-of-a-national-carbon-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The global utility of a national carbon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>James Griffin [of] Texas A&#038;M\u2019s Bush School of Government [&#8230;] is a carbon-tax advocate who begins by acknowledging what everyone knows but hardly anyone says: that, absent subsidies and mandates, renewables and so-called green energy could not begin to compete with oil and coal, and the market would be entirely dominated by fossil fuels.  <\/p>\n<p>The carbon tax is one of those policy ideas that is largely sound in theory but runs up hard upon the shoals of reality. I am not convinced that a <em>national<\/em> carbon tax would change U.S. consumer behavior to such an extent that it would have positive effects on what is after all a <em>global<\/em> phenomenon, nor am I convinced that the U.S. government would use the revenue from a carbon tax to invest in real climate-change mitigation. That makes the carbon tax a very expensive way of demonstrating good intentions, which does not seem to me like a very fruitful way to work. And compared to more direct programs, such as clearing the way for the development of new, modern, nuclear-power facilities, a carbon tax is even less attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin D. Williamson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/445599\/reasonable-case-carbon-tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Case for a Carbon Tax&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Griffin [of] Texas A&#038;M\u2019s Bush School of Government [&#8230;] is a carbon-tax advocate who begins by acknowledging what everyone knows but hardly anyone says: that, absent subsidies and mandates, renewables and so-called green energy could not begin to compete with oil and coal, and the market would be entirely dominated by fossil fuels. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,65,84,41],"tags":[245,692,1386,118],"class_list":["post-37614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-government","category-quotations","tag-climatechange","tag-externalities","tag-nuclearpower","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9MG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58747,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions\/58747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}