Actually I'm suggesting to raise taxes to increase water price. It's not totally capitalism and I wonder whether there's a name for that.

In my country:

- Left wing politics are about increasing taxes on the rich to redistribute to social systems,

- Right wing politics is about making things simpler for companies, including lower taxes,

- Capitalist ecologists (which I'm trying to find a better name for) are about transferring taxes onto rare/polluting resources to integrate the side effects of those resources. Example: If petrol provokes greenhouse gases, we should tax petrol enough so that people would use it in reasonable amounts only. Thanks to this new revenue stream for the government, we can lower the taxes on employment (which are above 50% here), because taxes on employment lower the demand for employment and that has been a stupid thing to do. Instead of taxing employment, let's get the same taxes from nasty resources like petrol.

It's all explained in detail in some books (in France, Jancovici is the leader for those), but I don't know whether there's an international name for that.

What do you do when petrol consumption diminishes to the point that it's no longer a good revenue source? At that point, government can do things (increase vehicle weight through higher safety standards, refuse to invest in public transportation) to safeguard their cash cow.

> What do you do when petrol consumption diminishes to the point that it's no longer a good revenue source?

... Survive?

I mean that's the goal of it, it's to decrease the consumption of this resource if it's considered harmful to the biodiversity (in the case of petrol) or wasted (in the case of water). At no point is the goal is to make the govt richer, that's why I said income tax should be reduced thereasmuch.

Right, but then you have to raise income taxes again once the revenue stream from petrol dries up.