Comments on: California Superior Court Rules With Environmentalists Favoring a Carbon Tax Instead of AB32’s Cap and Trade http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/#comment-95798 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=25151#comment-95798 “RGGI has propelled tiny cloudy New Jersey to compete with huge sunny California in solar roof power generated”

And New Jersey has bills before their legislature to get NJ to withdraw from RGGI. I suspect those solar panels are there only thanks to subsidies and that they aren’t viable without it.

The New Hampshire house has already passed a bill to pull out of RGGI. It’s now in the senate.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/#comment-95792 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:36:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=25151#comment-95792 No, I said the environmentalists sued because they favored a carbon tax, and the judge agreed that CARB did not delve deeply enough into the tax route. I thought I did make that clear.

]]> By: Joshua Nelson http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/#comment-95786 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=25151#comment-95786 We should be using a combination of the two systems. Why does everyone seem to think that there is only one solution?

Hell yes we should be taxing pollution – taxes are a deterrent in a free-market economy and should be used on things we want less of. However, because climate change is such a massively important and pressing issue we should also provide a cap and trade system to move towards 90% emission cuts by 2050 (as well as significant intermediate cuts – http://bit.ly/gG3fNh).

Also, we should institute a rationing system to make this a more socially just fight. George Monbiot outlines this in his book Heat – http://bit.ly/ggxeSW

Cover all our bases and reduce the risk of our single “solution” failing. We can’t risk failure when our supporting ecosystem (and thereby civilization) is on the line.

Cheers,
Joshua

]]> By: Bob Morris http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/#comment-95785 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=25151#comment-95785 Gosh, it sounds like you favor ignoring what some silly judge said because you know what is best for everyone and the law should thus be ignored.

]]> By: TizMiz http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/#comment-95774 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=25151#comment-95774 What a poorly written article. To say “California Superior Court Rules With Environmentalist Favoring a Carbon Tax” means that you don’t understand the decision at all. Judge Ernest Goldsmith simply state that CARB failed to adequately analyze alternatives- he in no way advocated a tax as your article’s title would suggest. As far as the breakdown of “Cap, and Trade” as superior to a Carbon Tax, you say “Secondly, only trade generates the auction funds that states can use to fund the rebates and efficiency measures that lower greenhouse gases”. Why wouldn’t a Carbon tax be able to generate those funds? I’m in favor of Cap and Trade, but we need logical discussion and analysis of the matter- not the poorly thought-out musings of the ill-informed.

]]> By: Ron Kilmartin http://cleantechnica.com/2011/03/30/california-superior-court-rules-with-environmentalists-favoring-a-carbon-tax-instead-of-ab32s-cap-and-trade/#comment-95769 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=25151#comment-95769 The elitists in CARB and the NGOs do not have a lock on carbon ignorance; it extends to our noble court system too. But why not? The Supremes are in on it too and if the Supremes say its bad, its bad! Hallelujah!

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