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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by ctdonath on Monday December 03, 2018 @06:30AM (#18587958)
A general CO2 tax wouldn’t be hard to implement if we were a dictatorship.

It's ideas like this why Americans are heavily armed. Nobody can explain how a "co2 tax" would actually do good, yet you implicitly advocate killing people to enact it.

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by adrianN on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:54AM (#18588712)
A CO2 tax would do good because it would reduce demand for goods and services that cause the release of CO2, proportional to how much they release, while also providing the funds necessary to clean CO2 from the atmosphere.

Not that hard to explain.

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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by mijamo on Monday December 03, 2018 @11:38AM (#18590105)
I don't see how heavily armed Americans change anything. Personnal weapons would not change a dictatorship. If anything it would just justify killing opponents for armed rebellion/terrorism. It's not like your gun will stop tanks...
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Re:China ‘Is the Only One in the Race’ to Make Electric Buse... by francisofascii on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:00AM (#18588752)
A CO2 tax would reduce the following: pollution, resource depletion, suburban sprawl, commute times, obesity, loneliness, traffic related deaths. So there will be less people killed with a C02 tax.
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