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Good article Frank,
That has been my thinking for a while now. If you dont want somebody to do something make it expensive to do and people will do it less. There is one other soft benifit to stiff fuel taxes that most people dont see: If you have 0% tax on gasoline and the price of the raw gasoline doubles then the cost on the consumer has doubled. If the gas is taxed at fixed rate but is close to the price per gallon and the price of the raw gasoline doubles the cost faced by the consumer only increases by 50% instead of 100% when it was untaxed. This has the benefit of insulating the economy from shocks in the price per barrel of oil.
I think we will be getting a carbon tax here in Canada somewhat soon as the oposition party is going to put it in their platform and they will form the next government whenever that happens.
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