Political Rant #58: Carbon Ration Card Tax In Readiness

27th May 2008: The Daily Mail : Every adult should be forced to use a 'carbon ration card' when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say. The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain's CO2 emissions without penalising the poor. Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights. Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven't used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company. Sunday, 3 June 2007, 19:19 GMT 20:19 UK The carbon credit card Imagine a world in which each one of us carries a card in our pocket which we use to record how much carbon we use whenever we make a purchase. We'd all have an annual carbon allowance - those of us who make an effort to go green would end up using less than our full allowance and would be able to sell our carbon surplus to those of us who exceed our allowance. Would a carbon credit card tempt you to walk instead? The aim of such a scheme would be to give everyone an incentive to use less carbon. Such an idea already exists within the European Union for large users of energy - power stations, heavy industrial plants and the like. The more greenhouse gases a company puts into the atmosphere, the greater the danger it goes over its allowance ...

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