Article by Jim Motavalli which points to a discussion of this topic on a large scale :
A Call for a Carbon Tax From Elon Musk...and Many Others | PluginCars.com
A Call for a Carbon Tax From Elon Musk...and Many Others | PluginCars.com
Musk is not alone in seeing a carbon tax—or at least a coherent national energy policy—as the best solution to reducing our foreign oil addiction and addressing global warming. Bill Ford, executive chairman of the company that bears his name, has long supported higher taxes on gasoline, and he told me that an energy policy could give Ford “some clarity about where the U.S. is going as a country.” Without it, he said, the outlook for green cars resembles “throwing darts.”
All sorts of policy makers support a carbon tax. “Putting a price on carbon is fundamental,” wrote Oxford professor Dieter Helm in a New York Times op-ed this week. “If consumers and businesses do not bear the cost of their carbon pollution, they won’t do much about it.”
And MIT has also weighed in with a report that calls a carbon tax a “win-win” for America. The authors, Sebastian Rausch and John Reilly, say that revenue from a carbon tax could offset the effects of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts. “In addition to economic benefits, a carbon tax reduces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to 14 percent below 2006 levels by 2020, and 20 percent below by 2050,” the report says.
A carbon tax is, in fact, the market-based approach that many Republicans say they want. “That’s what this is,” Reilly said. “It would give businesses, and specifically utilities and energy companies, the certainty and flexibility to choose which future investments would save the most energy and money. We would also no longer need the piecemeal regulations that are both inefficient and ineffective.”