|
About | Contact | Mongabay on Facebook | Mongabay on Twitter | Subscribe |
|
|
US government: $28 carbon price would raise gas prices by 25 cents mongabay.com October 9, 2008 Congressional Budget Office study finds $200/ton carbon tax would only raise gas prices $2 per gallon The report estimates that a carbon price of $28 per ton — a bit less than current carbon prices in the European market — would boost gas prices by 25 cents per gallon, while a $200 per ton tax would increase prices by less then $2. The findings suggest that the cost of climate change legislation may be lower than claimed by industry, but also indicate that efforts to curb Americans' driving habitats via a carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme may be of limited effectiveness. A $2 increase in the price of gas would still leave U.S. fuel prices well below those in most of the world.
"Although a CO2 emissions price would have relatively little effect on vehicle emissions, it would stimulate additional research and development of technologies for improving fuel efficiency, an effect that the new fuel economy standards will also have. New fuel-efficiency technologies will, in turn, create additional opportunities for reducing atmospheric CO2 concentrations and stabilizing Earth’s climate. " David Austin. Climate-Change Policy and CO2 Emissions from Passenger Vehicles. Congressional Budget Office. OCTOBER 6, 2008 MPG misrepresents gains in fuel efficiency from scrapping worst gas-guzzlers June 20, 2008 The use of miles-per-gallon instead of gallons-per-distance to measure fuel-efficiency may be clouding Americans' judgement when it comes to choosing whether to take the worst gas-guzzling vehicles off the road, argues a new paper published in the journal Science. Measures to drive adoption of super efficient cars in the U.S. March 29, 2007 To reduce its growing dependence on foreign oil the United States could implement relatively low-cost measures to put millions of super efficient vehicles on American highways, said energy efficiency expert Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in a speech at Stanford University. The measures could significantly cut oil usage, help fight climate change, and make U.S. roads safer. U.S. can cut oil imports to zero by 2040, oil use to zero by 2050 March 29, 2007 The United States could dramatically cut oil usage over the next 20-30 years at low to no net cost, said Amory B. Lovins, cofounder and CEO of the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute, speaking at Stanford University Wednesday night for a week-long evening series of lectures sponsored by Mineral Acquisition Partners, Inc.
Tags: gasoline fossil fuels energy environment automobiles greenhouse gas emissions oil carbon tax united states fuel efficiency energy efficiency pollution green News index | RSS | News Feed | Twitter | Home Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing
|
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 
Photos HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOS / PRINTS 
CALENDARS 
CANVAS BAGS 
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Copyright mongabay 2010 Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from mongabay.com operations (server, data transfer, travel) are mitigated through an association with Anthrotect, an organization working with Afro-indigenous and Embera communities to protect forests in Colombia's Darien region. Anthrotect is protecting the habitat of mongabay's mascot: the scale-crested pygmy tyrant. |
