Exxon supports carbon tax; What's that?
 

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Exxon supports carbon tax

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Friday, January 09, 2009


Exxonmobil corp., the world's largest crude oil refiner, supports taxing carbon dioxide as the most efficient way of curbing greenhouse gas emissions, its chief executive said.

"As a businessman, it's hard to speak favourably about any new tax, but a carbon tax strikes me as a more direct, more transparent and more effective approach," Rex Tillerson, CEO of the Irving, Texas based company, said Thursday at the Woodrow Wilson international center for scholars in Washington.

At a Dec. 11 event in Chicago, Tillerson, 56, said he preferred a carbon tax to carbon trading programs such as the type used in Europe.

A trading program, known as 'cap and trade,' "inevitably introduces unnecessary cost and complexity" that reduces effectiveness, said Tillerson. They require a vast expansion of regulation, he said. a carbon tax "can be more easily implemented" and is the "most efficient means of reflecting the cost of carbon," said Tillerson.

"Such a tax should be made revenue neutral," he said, which requires other taxes to be lowered so that the overall tax burden isn't increased.

© The Calgary Herald 2009

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Re: Exxon supports carbon tax; What's that?
 

An obvious con.

It will be as effective as the tax on alcohol or tobacco was in the UK.

Pathetic - but sadly predictable.

A..

Re: Exxon supports carbon tax; What's that?
 

This tax will become the first truely global tax, if it's actually ratified. The U.N. has been wanting a tax like this since it's inception. How else will they be able to support a global military?

We support this idea at our own peril!

Best to all,
Seekntruth

Re: Exxon supports carbon tax; What's that?
 

Just another bullsh it tax to pass on to the consumer