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Originally Posted by freebeard
Electricity is the interesting case, because the source might be (at any moment) carbon-free or grossly polluting.
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So instead of taxing electricity as-is, one might start taxing each production facility in line with its environmental impact.
Enter the quagmire of long running contracts etc.
But applying this tax to future facilities may slowly turn things around.
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