Better than a carbon tax "on the Pentagon" would simply be to divert a large portion of the military budget to efficiency and renewable energy. Carrol may think this sort of thing not worth speculating on, but at local "forward on climate" even yesterday, I used some of the seven minutes I was given to speak to lead a crowd in chanting "U.S. foot off the word's neck" and "wind farms not warfare". Starting with some context was useful in reaching the point where a crowd was willing to chant such things.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Carrol Cox wrote: >> What about a carbon tax on the Department of Defense? :-> > > If there's a carbon tax raising the market price of gasoline, the DoD > would have to pay the market price, unless it was specifically > exempted. So that's like carbon tax on the DoD. > > also, as I understand it, the DoD is working harder than most private > businesses to cut energy costs. For military reasons: they want to be > able to survive massive increases in the price of oil. > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
