It was, though IMHO it was a flawed calculation, as it assumed that the biofuel tax was the correct amount for other externalities (noise, other pollution, congestion, road costs, land values etc.) and used that as a baseline. There was no actual calculation as to what all the other externalities should be priced at. For example, there was an interesting discussion in the comments about the actual land value of the road system for example. Then things like noise and congestion are a bit subjective to price without controversy.
BTW I've no idea how much different, if at all, it would have been had the calculation been done from scratch. Cheers, Adam On Jun 13, 9:37 am, William M Connolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, James Annan wrote: > > Time for a bit of transatlantic perspective: petrol prices in the UK are > > currently over $9/gallon. OK, that's a bigger gallon. But still...it's > > close. > > > People might like to work out the effective "carbon tax" on petrol in > > the UK too... > > I've seen it done, its well above whats required for climate purporses I > recall... it was on Tim Worstalls blog I think. > > -W. > > > James > > William M Connolley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ > Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | 07985 935400 > > -- > This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject > to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any > reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under > the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic > records management system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. 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/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
