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Originally Posted by elcreative
Great idea then we can lose all the tree plantations that are grown SPECIFICALLY to produce paper as we won't need them... one good move... then we won't have the carbon getting locked up in paper and the NEW trees planted to replace every one harvested... second good move... and we can concentrate on producing millions more eReaders at taxpayers expense for those who can't afford to buy them thus adding to pollution from the electronics production and rare metals extraction... third good move... yea, go green loonies again then maybe you can concentrate on something that both matters and DOES improve things instead of knee-jerk rubbish...
Maybe the rest of us are also getting a bit sick of unwanted governmental interference and taxing of our lives for things that are none of their business... oh, whoops, look there goes another pseudo-liberal transnational who knows what is best for the world and everyone in it because they all know better than the rest of us poor benighted and obviously uncaring people...
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You're forgetting about the cost and consumption of resources to actually manufacture the book, the contamination of water from paper mills, resources to transport it (energy, packaging waste, time, etc), cost to store it, and annoyance of dealing with the waste when it is tossed.
In conjunction with the tax, I'd propose that the government prevent the prevention of reselling and loaning ebooks. There should be a way to transfer the ebook like a pbook....if we are to get rid of pbooks.
Pollution of electronics is bad....but environmental impact of pbooks is probably worse overall. a lot of people read ebooks on tablets and computers where they already have a device and don't need to purchase a special device.
I also believe they should greatly increase US gasoline taxes to like $4 per gallon instead of having those CAFE standards. They can gradually institute the tax so people have time to change behavior. I can guarantee u that very few people will buy an SUV if there is a $4 gas tax. the UAW would make passing the tax extremely difficult though, if not impossible. the tax monies could go toward creation of solar power plants and such. the other added benefit is that in effect the tax would transfer wealth from OPEC to the home country as it means that the home country would be effectively collecting some of the oil price increase instead of OPEC. OPEC would not be able to raise the underlying price as high since the cost to the consumer has the added tax to stifle demand.
pbooks are laughably antiquated...the sooner they are minimized the better. imagine a world that instead of using telecommunications and email, you'd have to write a LETTER and send it via post, every time! HAHHAA, that is so pathetic. this is how I view pbooks.
but I agree, the 20% tax would create other problems we'd have to deal with.