The Huge Mistake - Climate Change Solutions 2009

Yes, but the problem is, it isn't extra money you are being given, you will have to channel that extra money into paying for energy.

The rebate will also have to be equivalent to the amount you spend on fossil fuels, so buying less would mean a lower rebate. Where else would the money come from?

I believe that if the price of Fossil Fuels were increased by taxation and the extra money channelled into lowering the cost of renewable energy sources.

Green energy would be made less expensive due to economies of scale - like it mentions. Easier to produce and purchase products when they are manufactured at a large scale. Not to mention oil prices would go up in time due to peak oil.... i suggest not only carbon tax with rebates but to also unsubsidize oil

Utilities won't care either because they will just keep raising the price of energy to the consumer, and the consumer will pay knowing they'll be reimbursed. Where is the incentive to switch to clean energy where by that graph at 8:22 it looks like clean energy will still cost the consumer more than the subsidized fossil fuels cost (because the customer will only be paying the black box, not the black and blue).

I think there is a flaw in this "solution" presented. If you plan on taxing current utility companies (like coal plants) a carbon tax that rises over time, but then at the same time providing rebates to the consumer for the amount of the tax, then what is the incentive for the consumer to switch to clean energy? Investment won't go to clean energy unless people use it, and people won't care about using it because they don't feel the effects of the higher cost of carbon cause of the tax rebates

scaries me!at this time tap & trade is bad!

CO2 tax is a scam

This beats the hell out of giving ownership of fuel consumption to Wall Street and the multinationals. The offsets are absolutely absurd, especially the refrigerants. I think the idea is a good one, save for the fact that the US would probably go into the dark ages from taxation at levels this high. As long as windmills that look like that are a solution, we are a long way off.

Because in real life you're not just buying chocolate. You can reduce your fossil fuel consumption and spend the rebate money on something else.

If the carbon taxes raise the price of gasoline you could use your monthly energy rebate to buy a more fuel efficient car. When the car is paid off, you'll have the monthly rebate to spend on something else.

Proof of global warming: bristlecone pines, antarctic ice shelf, Keeling curve. Look it up.

Once you understand the globalist agenda, the global warming fraud ( see climategate for details) starts to make sense. Governments are fronts for the banking scam. They do not care about the environment, the game plan is to crush the USA. Copenhagen is to be used to get international "laws" to bind the people while taxing them into poverty at the same time. Add to this a global police state and hey presto a living nightmare for the serfs and untold wealth for the bankers.