Comments on: 75% of Americans Support Regulating CO2; 60% Support Carbon Tax

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:37:00 +0000

Thanks, Craig. Love your work.

By: Craig Morris

Craig Morris — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:26:00 +0000

Germany already has environmental taxation of this type and is doing quite well with it. See: http://www.renewablesinternational.net/americans-support-revenue-neutral-carbon-tax/150/537/38394/

By: Climate Bill Idea? Polled GOP Voters OK Carbon Tax Swap

Climate Bill Idea? Polled GOP Voters OK Carbon Tax Swap — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:48:01 +0000

[…] covered the poll when it came out from Yale last month. One question struck me as showing a way forward on climate […]

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:47:00 +0000

You changed your argument.

You started with claiming that switching to renewables would double/triple the price of electricity. Then you switched to claiming some sort of social engineering to lower use argument.

I take it that you aren’t able to support your original claim.
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You are 100% incorrect in your claim that “it is IMPOSSIBLE to have wind or solar supply this entire nation with it’s energy needs UNLESS you force us to use less than we want to”.

We can switch to renewables, use all the electricity we want, and likely pay less per kWh for our power. (You do know what burning coal for electricity really costs, don’t you?)

By: Russell Rock

Russell Rock — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Because that is the ONLY way you will get people to use less electricity is to double/triple the cost of using it. Since it is IMPOSSIBLE to have wind or solar supply this entire nation with it’s energy needs UNLESS you force us to use less than we want to, you are only living in a fantasy land. I own 8 tvs, 3 cars and 4 computers. That is MY RIGHT. I worked for those and I WILL use them for my higher standard of living. Keep out of my life.

By: Aloysius Okon

Aloysius Okon — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:59:00 +0000

If the revenue neutral carbon tax is so popular (I think it could be a good idea), then why hasn’t anyone raised it on the halls of Congress? It could be the perfect move of bipartisanship: cut down the carbon liberals hate, and get rid of the tax system conservatives hate.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:51:00 +0000

Perhaps you can explain to us how the price of electricity might double or triple as we replace fossil fuels with cheap wind power, getting-cheap solar power and affordable hydro and geothermal power.

In your explanation please include the additional tax payer/insurance premium costs we now pay because we burn coal. Remember, coal is very heavily subsidized as it does not have to pay for the health damages it causes.

By: Russell Rock

Russell Rock — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:47:00 +0000

Just ask them if they support all of these things IF it triples or doubles their electric bill because the utilities WILL pass along these extra costs to the consumer. See how support plummets then.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:08:00 +0000

yeah, aside from some idiotic governors. the states moving forward the most on wind, and on other green energy tech in some cases, are ‘Republican’ states. bottom line is, it makes sense and is good for the economy… as long as you haven’t been heavily bribed by the fossil fuel industry.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:06:00 +0000

haha, too true.

By: Jlindseyco

Jlindseyco — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:23:00 +0000

There is no damn way I believe that many people favor another tax. Who did you survey Gore’s family?

By: Solar & Wind Energy Subsidies Should Continue “Forever” - CleanTechnica

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:20:24 +0000

[…] a common argument that renewable energy shouldn’t be subsidized, even though the majority of the public supports such subsidies, and even though fossil fuels have been getting subsidies for about a century (and continue to get […]

By: Altair IV

Altair IV — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:28:00 +0000

Why would 40% want to continue shipping our hard-earned money out to international petrochemical countries, draining us of our prosperity, keeping us dependent on foreign interests, and damaging our own health and environment, when we can harness the solar and wind energy that’s all around us free for the taking, and live in a country that’s self-sufficient and cleaner?

Tell me again which group is out of their minds?

By: RobS

RobS — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:34:00 +0000

Right on cue, the 40% have arrived, you can identify them by their baseless claims and their dismissal of majority opinion on the basis of the 60% are too stupid to know any better.

By: Captivation

Captivation — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:03:00 +0000

Craig you’ve got everything backwards. Wind and sunlight are free and abundant. Turning them into energy is basically turning ‘nothing’ into ‘something’. Its the ultimate free lunch. In a clean energy economy the only ‘other’ that is being ‘leeched’ upon is the Sun. In a dirty energy economy, it is future generations and the natural habitat itself that is leeched upon.

By: Craig Miller

Craig Miller — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:52:00 +0000

You people are out of your minds. Why would 60% of Americans want to pay money to people who produce nothing and are leeches draining the p[prosperity of others?

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:38:00 +0000

At a local, municipal and state level there seems to be more hope than at the insane level of republican national politics.

By: mk1313

mk1313 — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:06:00 +0000

As if the republicans would listen to anyone with less than $100M!!!!!!