I believe such taxes would contravene the Warsaw convention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Convention
A 2009/5/8 John Nissen <[email protected]> > Hi Sam, > > You wrote on your blogspot: > http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/ > > "In conclusion, it would make sense to impose fees on conventional jet fuel > and use the proceeds of those fees to fund air capture of carbon dioxide." > I would go further, and have a fixed levy on all fossil carbon extraction: > enough levy to pay for air capture and putting *more than* the same amount > of carbon back in the ground. Fuels would become very much more expensive > for everyone, but fuel use would help to reduce CO2 levels, since more > carbon would be put in the ground than taken out. There would be a rebate > where fuels were used with CCS, to give a financial incentive for the CCS. > (Effectively CCS would be paid for out of proceeds of the levy, according to > how much CO2 was captured and sequestered.) > > BTW, I have suggested this to Prof Hansen, who is attacking the > cap-and-trade system as the "temple of doom" here: > http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20090505_TempleOfDoom.pdf > > Cheers, > > John > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
