Saving the planet

[binthere]

Horse. Since your on the per capita spiel it would do you good to check out the per capita GDP figures for the world.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

[sawfly1]

Not a big deal. But if the east used oil solely from Canada. Which I would favor .
Is actually a socialist move. There has to be a free market reason. Price ? That it is not

[Horse]

Well that certainly covered the track , from not piloting to who gives a fu-ck we live in cold and miles from markets to poverty in India/Canada to need for carbon for my daily feed of oats, all because I happened to mention that we as people of Canada produce more CO2 than almost all countries in the world, Your argument is like saying my cows don't produce methane,, yea I don't own any cows so of course they don't produce any. Statistics will tell you anything you like to hear, all you have to do is SPIN them.

[checking]

Horse

Please redo your India vs. Canada per person emission CO2. I believe you might find the 1:30 ratio is off really badly, if that is your only comparison that you are going to use.

[farmaholic]

Now was that "burnt" to the first, second or third degree? Cremation?

[Guest]

like arguing with a piece of plywood

[Guest]

Now was that "burnt" to the first, second or third degree? Cremation?

you seeding yet ?

[farmaholic]

you seeding yet ?

No Sir, but damn soon! Someone please pull the plug on the fan! Or redirect the flow to those who want it!

[Horse]

Well I would like to answer but you have expanded the question from a simple do we polite or not to poverty, we are in a cold big environment and we live high on the hog, if you don't like India compare to Russia, they are4.6 and 8 times our population and cold and long distances, but that's all mute as the question is are we the lowest polluters in the world and the answer is uniquivicaly no, and if per capita doesn't mater then don't use it in your arguments.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

For a lot of consumers fuel still must be be pretty cheap considering lots of them still line up in their over sized 300 hp SUV to pickup a coffee at Tim Hortons with the engine running. Just imagine the amount of energy it takes to get one cup of coffee and a donut?

Fuel guzzling pickup trucks are still selling briskly to people who don't need them, but have been sucked in by slick marketing.

These are all indicators that energy is priced too low and is being used inappropriately.

Most of us will agree with this. There are a lot of discretionary uses of energy which could be reduced if the price was not virtually free.

So, a prohibitively high CO2 tax would effectively reduce the soccer mom's fossil fuel consumption. But the energy intensive steel mill doesn't have that option, it can only close it's doors and move to a business friendly environment.

If you can figure out how a CO2 tax could target only the discretionary uses, and not punish the productive businesses and citizens who have to do business and live in a sparse cold country where most of the wealth is generated by very energy intensive industries, please share.