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Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by elihu on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:18PM (#26921284)
Even if we implemented a carbon tax, I don't know if it would actually make that big a difference unless it was very high.

A quick google search came up with this from an organization that (from the name and content on their site) appears to be an oil industry lobby group:

https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2020/10/under-bidens-...

> Our Northern neighbor has some experience with a carbon tax as well as other mechanisms for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. In 2019, Canada implemented a carbon tax under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act supported by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The carbon tax started at $20 per metric ton in 2019, and is scheduled to increase at $10 per metric ton per year until reaching $50 per metric ton in 2022. The carbon tax will stay at that level unless the legislation is revisited and revised. > > A $20 per metric ton carbon tax equates to a 16.6 cent per gallon surcharge on gasoline. In 2022, the $50 per ton carbon tax would increase Canadian gasoline prices by about 42 cents per gallon or about 8 percent.

Even the $50 per ton tax doesn't seem like it actually raises prices all that much. I mean, if you're poor and need to buy gas to get to work it's a detrimental change, but gas prices fluctuate more than that just from oil production changes and geopolitics, and it hasn't stopped price-sensitive purchasers from buying gas-burning cars.

Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by adrianN on Saturday April 24, 2021 @12:49AM (#26922329)
The Umweltbundesamt of the German government estimates the externalized cost of a ton of CO2 to be between 195€ and 680€ (depending on the discounting function used)

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/14...

Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by mavhc on Saturday April 24, 2021 @02:29AM (#26922714)
Petrol emits 2.31 kg of CO2 per litre, so 1 tonne is 432 litres. In UK we pay 58p per litre in tax, that's £250 or 285 euros.

So it's perfectly possible to live while paying enough tax to clean up the CO2 caused

Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by cjblomqvist on Saturday April 24, 2021 @01:49AM (#26922574)
Thanks for sharing! Obviously ignorance on my side.

You could however raise it a lot more to make it have bigger effect. E.g. In Sweden you pay about $200-250/ton (for gas). Then you could argue that there are other emissions from gas such as NOx and similar. A little bit outside my comfort zone but I'm sure it would have some effect at least to make electric vehicles more attractive!