Talk:Energy tax

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 * The same fuels are taxed at widely different rates in different countries while different fuels are taxed at widely different rates within and across countries. Coal, oil and gas are all used to generate electricity, but are subject to very different tax or subsidy regimes. This paper considers what tax theory has to say about efficient energy tax design. The main factors for energy taxes are the optimal tariff argument, the need to correct externalities such as global warming, and second-best considerations for taxing transport fuels as road charges, but these are inadequate to explain current energy taxes. EU energy tax harmonisation and Kyoto suggest that the time is ripe to reform energy taxation.
 * While the transport sector is forecast to generate by far the greatest increase in emissions up to 2010, the agricultural sector produces by far the greatest share of emissions - an estimated 35 per cent. The residential sector, which is the second most important contributor, has a substantially smaller share, of 19 per cent. One of the options that has been put forward from time to time has been energy taxes. Most economists strongly support taxes as a means of giving practical expression to the "polluter-pays principle".
 * Energy taxes by altering relative energy prices can, it is argued, reduce energy use and emissions. However, the arguments usually put forward in favour of taxes are often at such a high level of generality as to be almost meaningless. It is not possible to determine whether taxes will be effective in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions without addressing the issue of tax design. Nowhere is this observation better illustrated than in the case of proposals to introduce such taxes in the industrial sector. There May Be a Role For An Energy Tax But Only As Part Of A Wider Package Of Environmental Measures
 * Slowly escalating non renewable energy costs will encourage research, development and market intrusion of sustainable renewable energy sources that have very little chance of competing in the present marketplace where all energy is priced according to its cost of production as opposed to its impending scarcity. The transition to renewables would be orchestrated by the MARKET forces of trillions-upon-trillions of purchase decisions based on PRICE as opposed to the COMMAND AND CONTROL arrangements that have proved largely unacceptable in connection with the Kyoto process. Energy tax made easy: Modifying Human Excess with International NON RENEWABLE ENERGY TAXATION

"Like an energy tax":
 * Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) have proposed a de facto energy tax on the American public that most likely soon will be debated on the Senate floor. Their bill, titled the "Climate Stewardship Act of 2003" (S.139), would require the commercial, industrial, transportation and electric power sectors in the United States to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 2000 levels by 2010 and to 1990 levels by 2016.
 * Advocates of the U.N. global warming treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, understand this logic very well. They seek to restrict and, ultimately, eliminate the use of fossil fuels, and they see CO2 regulation as the indispensable means to that end.
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Don't like SEPP
I've rewritten the intro using a book chapter by Fisher et al (1996) and a paper by Nellor (1994). I think these are far better sources than the SEPP link. I was also not happy with the way the previous revision made reference to the Kyoto Protocol. I see no need to make this reference. If it is to be made, it should be made in the body of the text. To be honest, I don't like the reference to the SEPP website at all. It is an anti-climate change website, and in my view, not a good source for what is an article about energy taxes. Enescot (talk) 20:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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