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Re:The $47T Death Sentence for Oil and Gas by leguminous on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:17PM (#21082475)
Economists love carbon taxes, in general. Economists on both sides of the political spectrum largely seem to agree that a carbon tax is a good idea and could be an effective way to limit climate change.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/economists-statement-on-carbon-...

It seems to me that economists are on board. It's politicians who aren't.

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Re:The $47T Death Sentence for Oil and Gas by AtlasBarfed on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:45PM (#21082779)
Go ask the University of Chicago Economics Department, or as I like to call them instead of the ivory tower, the Eye of Mordor.
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Re:The $47T Death Sentence for Oil and Gas by ptah on Friday September 27, 2019 @05:29AM (#21089996)
carbon taxes are ineffective, a workaround for something missing at the core of economics
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