That would likely work best under a cap-and-trade or carbon tax system.

这种方法在碳排放限额交易（cap-and-trade）或碳税体系下可能最为有效。

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A tax on carbon is hardly going to stop the lights going out in a few years, but it would provide a floor price for power, giving investors a clearer sense of likely profits.

在未来几年内碳税几乎不能阻止电灯熄灭，但它将给电力提供一个底价，给投资者一个更清晰的对可能利润的判断力。

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That's where some sort of consumption tax would come in on carbon or, more likely, on everything.

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The House, meanwhile, is working on its own climate change legislation and is likely to hold hearings later this month on a different approach: a carbon tax.

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The bottom line of the CBO analysis of the various rebate options of the carbon tax is that those that are best targeted toward offsetting the regressiveness of the tax are the ones most likely to create some economic distortion and have the highest administrative costs.

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