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As far as I can tell, this idea of an Energy Security Trust comes from this ill-fated house bill from 2009 that sought to tax carbon dioxide emissions and direct the tax into a trust fund that would pay for alternative energy research and ( bizarrely) offset payroll taxes for poor families.
FORBES: President Obama Gets It: Fracking Is Awesome
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Looming above all: the push to price and manage carbon dioxide emissions via a carbon tax or a cap and trade regime.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Media across the alarmist spectrum are gushing with praise and envy this week in the wake of China announcing it may impose a small tax on carbon dioxide emissions.
FORBES: Global Warming Alarmists Chant 'Forget The Carbon, We Demand The Tax'
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As recently as a year ago, it looked as if federal lawmakers were going to impose some kind of price on carbon dioxide emissions, through a tax or some form of cap-and-trade system.
FORBES: Nuclear Energy Producer With Huge Upside Potential
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Keenest of all, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden now tax emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.
ECONOMIST: Taxes for a cleaner planet
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While some liberal Democrats have proposed legislation to tax emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, Republicans controlling the House have pledged to block any and all efforts to price carbon pollution.
NPR: PROMISES, PROMISES: Climate Change
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When it comes to choosing between a carbon tax and fewer carbon dioxide emissions, alarmists show their true colors by turning up their noses at real-world carbon dioxide reductions and instead pushing wholeheartedly for ineffective central planning and carbon taxes.
FORBES: Global Warming Alarmists Chant 'Forget The Carbon, We Demand The Tax'
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It would help if coal the cheapest fuel for making electricity were taxed to pay for the climate-changing effects of the carbon dioxide produced when it burns, but even without such a tax, some ambitious entrepreneurs are already talking of alternatives that are cheaper than coal.
ECONOMIST: A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think
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In 2009, despite no cap-and-trade law, no carbon tax and no major reductions mandated by our EPA, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 7.1%, more than in any year in the record that begins in 1949.
FORBES: China Talks A Green Line While The U.S. Walks One