Reply #26: Call your Senator's office, [View All]

[dcfirefighter]

Your congressional represantative's office, your state representative's office, and your like-minded friends and tell them:

You want a carbon tax. You want it to be $10 / ton of elemental carbon released to the atmosphere. This is about $0.02 per gallon of gasoline. You want it to increase by $5 / ton C / per year. You'll allow offsets for increased biomass & other sequestering of carbon. You want the entirety of this revenue, less ~1% for management costs, returned to the people of the United States in the form of a universal refundable income tax credit.

Drive a big SUV if you want, it's money in my pocket. Use less than the per capita carbon and you can pocket the difference. It can't hurt the economy, it can only change behavior.

I accept tradeable permits, but the MUST be AUCTIONED, not GIVEN AWAY. Again, the revenue should be returned to the people, who's air is being polluted.