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Doug Grandt
Forum Posts: 25
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March 27, 2014
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Given the craziness of the past few months in all aspects of the climate
activist life, I have been wishing my friends and family "Happy Holidaze and
Hopeful New Year", and just wanted to take a moment to share a few tid
bits that impact on this particular topic on the Q&A Forum, and thank Erika,
Stephen and Gary for expressing your thoughts.
I am adamant that a singular carbon price/tCO2 levied equally on all fuels
(varying only on the carbon content of each fuel) and all sectors is
unsubstantiated by fact and logic, and insufficient to impact anything but
coal. And coal is already in remission without a carbon tax! Hence, I believe
we need to focus on liquid fuels in cars, trucks, locomotives, jets and ships
independently to get effective reductions across the board. Buildings are a
separate issues and may have to be addressed as the tail of the
distribution with attrition as the central endgame.
We have not learned much since 1990-1991 when my Rep. Pete Stark
drafted and introduced his H.R.4805 — 101st Congress (1989-1990) on
May 10, 1990, then increased the price and re-introduced it as H.R.1086 —
102nd Congress (1991-1992) on February 21, 1991. Stark was told his
proposed rates were too low by CBO.*
*Refer to the paper "Designing a Carbon Tax: The Introduction of the
Carbon-Burned Tax (CBT)" pages 276-277 of Vol. 10 Issue 2 (1992)
of UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (UCLA School of Law):
All this is to say that we really don't know to what extent or when Rep.
Carlos Curbelo's or Ted Deutch's respective carbon tax levels will impact
CO2 emissions, just as Pete Stark had no clue and built in provisions to
reduce the annual increases when emission reductions began to occur.
Most enlightening are comments made by Joseph Majkut (1:17:40 -
1:18:40) and Noah Kaufman (1:21:40 - 1:23:00) in the video on this
Columbia | SIPA page:
All of this does not seem overwhelmingly HOPEFUL, but what does give
me hope is the bill that my Junior Senator is presently finalizing and will
introduce in the very near future-possibly February or March judging from
conversations during the past 3-6 months.
Apologies for being overly detailed, but I sincerely believe it will be and
wish you all a HOPEFUL NEW YEAR, whatever the direction the political
winds may blow and the direction we finally head.
Doug Grandt
Putney, VT
BTW, if you haven't yet read IOP Science publication "Assessing carbon
lock-in" and studied Figure 1, please do.