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France's carbon tax ... a step forward? step to the side? | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: The oil industry supports carbon taxes (4.00 / 2)
santiago: The oil industry supports carbon taxes in the US debate over climate change legislation, rather than a cap and trade approach.

Could you provide any references for that?  (I always thought that the oil industry favored cap-and-trade as an easier system to "game".)

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by marco on Fri Sep 4th, 2009 at 04:43:50 AM EST
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Re: The oil industry supports carbon taxes (4.00 / 3)
I think the industry has also supported a carbon tax recently as a way to create confusion in the debate aned weaken the push for cap-and-trade, by putting on the table (again) a beguiling alternative and making some supporters of cap-and-trade waver and ask for new studies...

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Sep 4th, 2009 at 08:16:08 AM EST
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Oops, I responded here accidentally.
by santiago on Fri Sep 4th, 2009 at 12:50:03 PM EST
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France's carbon tax ... a step forward? step to the side? | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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