Oh look, a company working to ensure it doesn't have to pay more money to the government than it wants to, big surprise.
Am I reading that right? $15 per ton of carbon dioxide? Is it me or does that just look too small?
*cough cough* but we got to make money!
"the oil industry"
Don't even need to say anything else to know what they're thinking, they can fuck off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
Washington emits 73,000,000 tons of CO2 yearly, ranking at 27th on the list.
Quick multiplication shows that this would result in over a billion USD in fines yearly.
The problem is that we emit far more CO2 than you can really conceptualize.
We had a carbon tax here several years ago, I think it was somewhere around $22 per tonne. It had to be offset by tripling the tax-free threshold for personal income from $6,000 to $18,200. $15 per tonne might not seem like much, but it does (deliberately) put upwards pressure on the price of virtually everything.
This is investment that'll pay off handsomely in the future. The world will be dead but whatever
Risking the chance of ending human civilization and potentially an extinction level event to own the libs!!
BP representatives are planning to turn into super mutants to roam the Mojave desert in search of vulnerable wanderers, sort of what they do already except without the green skin or large statue, most of the time anyway.
The earth isnt dying, it is being killed and the people killing it have names.
The fuck is Wyoming doing that makes so much co2?
Coal industry, don't know what's up with North Dakota tho.
the map there is showing per-capita CO2 emissions. it's probably a combination of small population and sparse towns, resulting in lots of driving.
New Mexico has more than Texas?
Probably because they get a lot of natural gas from us, and we use a SHITload of it.
massive coal exports.
Coal and Oil are two of the largest industries in Wyoming, the rest of the state is basically agriculture and is so sparsely populated that it isn't funny. The two largest cities in Wyoming are only around the 60,000 mark in population each. The state has a population around 600,000, so it's very rural and thus lots of driving will take place as well.
$15 is WAY too low. The IPCC report put the absolute bare minimum by 2030 at $135 per ton and as high as $5,500 - up to $27,000 by 2100. Remember the IPCC is also usually very conservative with their estimates so given the latest findings it probably needs to be even higher than that. We need a global mobilization effort comparable only to the size of what America or the USSR did for WWII.
https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2018/10/15/ipcc-not-just-a-carbon-price-but-a-really-high-one/
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