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Re:I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to expla... by kspacewalk2 on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:09AM (#30988936)
This is what Canada is doing. Equal rebates for everyone - use less and you get a subsidy, use more and you're the one doing the subsidizing.

Now of course Canada's carbon tax is tiny, but there's probably some behavioural economics rationale behind the idea that even a tiny cost can have outsized impact on behaviour.

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Re:I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to expla... by transcriptase on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:31AM (#30989278)
Rebates for people in certain provinces. Others have implemented a cap-and-trade shell game where the residents receive nothing but they still experience rising prices because of costs to nation-wide businesses being passed on either way.
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Re:I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to expla... by kspacewalk2 on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:02PM (#30990686)
Shamefully, I've committed the cardinal sin of people from my province: forgetting the other 60% of my countrymen and forgetting that things do vary between provinces.
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