The fact that burning fuel creates these "negative externalities" does not imply that no tax on fuel could ever be too high.

燃烧燃料产生这些“负外部性”的事实并不意味着燃油税不会太高。

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Fishermen and farmers, who anyway pay far less tax on fuel than ordinary French consumers, will get special compensation.

相对应普通消费者更少消费汽油的渔夫和农民也将得到特殊赔偿。

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Britain soon may become the largest country switch to charging for distance driven, away from a tax on fuel consumption.

英国可能不久将取消燃油消费税，而成为改按行驶里程收费的最大国度。

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Fishermen and farmers, who anyway pay far less tax on fuel than ordinary French consumers, will get special compensation.

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If governments took action now and effectively raised carbon tax on fuel by 40 percent percent, INSEAD Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science David Hemous predicts that within 15 years there would be more clean cars than dirty cars sold in the world.

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The manifesto confirms its ambitions on tax: for a lower 10p starting rate of income tax, for a cut from 8% to 5% in value-added tax on fuel, and for no increase in the 23p basic rate nor the 40p higher rate of income tax.

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