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Originally Posted by markbot
A $1 tax per gallon on gas would yield over $100B per year in the US. If we used all of that money to build solar or wind power plants, we'd have clean energy powering the US within 10 years. Hypothetically, if solar or wind energy costs $1M per MW. We could have all US base load electricity as solar or wind power within 10 years with this tax.....assuming we solve the electricity variability issue. Throwing in nuclear power...and we could make fossil fuel obsolete within a generation!!!! But NO!!! That would be too damn easy.
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You really think so? We do have a huge taxation on gas. 2/3d of the price is caused by VAT, tax and something I've no idea how to translate in English. That money isn't going to alternative fuels, but rather in the building of more roads...
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
We have a large fossil fuel tax. It's called high prices at the gas pump. Sales of things like SUVs are off because people can't afford the gas they require, and sales of RVs have largely stopped.
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An American saying they have high prices at the gas pump...
Your prices are nothing compared to ours. What you pay for a gallon is about the same as what we pay for a liter...