robert and benita rabello wrote: > Darryl McMahon quoted an article that included: > >> Fund new technology to curb climate change: oil executive >> >>SNIP >> > > Let's see if I understand this: >SNIP
> Hmmm . . . > Here's what I propose: > > 1. Use LESS energy! > > 2. A significant windfall profits tax on the oil companies. Here I don't agree, don't agree at all. All that is needed, if for the oil companies, and the ilk that empowers them, to 'put their money where their collective mouths are' viz a viz Free Market Enterprise. No need to come up with a punitive windfall profit tax, that just sounds like 'punishing success'. Rather, make them pay their own way, like you or I would have to do, were we in business. *If* they need a world power to go to war to secure "their" resources, then they pay for that war, outright, out of pocket. >DING< watch renewable resource energy take off like a rocket! Note, the principal on the public debt incurred by the first gulf war hasn't even been touched yet. > 3. Significant financial incentives for consumers to invest in > efficiency at home. Again, not really needed, just remove all the handouts large monolithic monopolistic multinational energy companies are receiving on the backs of large scale future deficit funding by the taxpayers. I think efficiency upgrades would compete rather well in a 'Free Market Economy' > > 4. Significant financial incentives for communities to plan for > lowered energy use. same same > 5. A significant tax on energy use that will encourage conservation. Again, I really don't think increasing taxes is the answer, any more than is further drilling in the gulf or opening ANWR. > 6. Using the carbon as raw material to BUILD THINGS rather than > "sequestering," which is geologic nonsense! > > 7. DO something NOW, rather than keeping to the "business as usual" > model. > > But then, I'm a guest in your country, Darryl, so I don't want to > complain . . . > > robert luis rabello > "The Edge of Justice" > "The Long Journey" > New Adventure for Your Mind > http://www.newadventure.ca > > Ranger Supercharger Project Page > http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
