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Fight global warming by taxing ‘McMansions,’ Dingell says
CNSNews.com 08.10.07
The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week announced a plan to fight global warming by reducing carbon emissions up to 80 percent by the year 2050. This would be done by raising gasoline taxes 50 cents per gallon and ending mortgage tax deductions on large houses, which the Michigan Democrat called “McMansions.”
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The merit of a carbon tax
American Enterprise Institute 08.09.07
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Congress is challenging this standard as it addresses the nation’s energy future. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) want Congress to complete comprehensive energy legislation soon. But Capitol Hill is increasingly paralyzed by the opposing ideas it holds.
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An energy tax policy for the twenty-first century
American Enterprise Institute 08.09.07
The United States’ energy tax policy is rooted in a twentieth-century objective to encourage the development of the domestic energy sector. With the new geopolitical realities of the twenty-first century, it is an opportune time to revisit our policies.
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A righter shade of green
The American Conservative 7.16.07
While the Left pursues environmentalism to advance its global agenda, conservation is best entrusted to local stewardship.
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