Dec
9th
Tue
9th
Many people will tell Mr. Obama that taxing carbon or gasoline now is a ‘nonstarter.’ Wrong. It is the only starter. It is the game-changer. If you want to know where postponing it has gotten us, visit Detroit. No carbon tax or increased gasoline tax meant that every time the price of gasoline went down to $1 or $2 a gallon, consumers went back to buying gas guzzlers. And Detroit just fed their addictions — so it never committed to a real energy-efficiency retooling of its fleet. R.I.P.
— Thomas Friedman, opining in the New York Times.
