Government Must Hurt Us to Save the Planet


	Government Must Hurt Us to Save the Planet

abailart

12-15-2007 2:45 AM

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energy, taxation

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The case for punitive leads such as taxation to change personal and corporate energy husbandry.

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So dazzled by the Emerald City of market economics and personal choice have
both the Centre Left and the Centre Right become that they seem to have
forgotten that, even though the market may be as much a force of nature as
the wind, a sailing ship still needs a navigator at the helm. Government is
the navigator, and there are rocks ahead. Government must bribe or bully us
into making different choices.
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Planning disincentives should be cut and financial incentives increased. Only
government can do this. Whopping new taxation is needed to encourage good
husbandry in energy. Only government can do this. In particular, the case
for road pricing is now overwhelming. Only government can do this. Yet
everything I know about Gordon Brown tells me he will shortly shy at the
road-pricing fence; and everything I know about the Tories tells me that
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