Wednesday, September 4, 2013

MANKIW on the CARBON TAX: CONSERVATIVE THINKER APPROACHING REASON; NOTE: APPROACHING

A Carbon Tax That America Could Live With

GREGORY MANKIW
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/business/a-carbon-tax-that-america-could-live-with.html?_r=0


"THIS summer, the Obama administration released the President’s Climate Action Plan. It is a grab bag of regulations and policy initiatives aimed at reducing the nation’s carbon emissions, which many scientists believe contribute to global warming.
This got me to thinking: What might I do to reduce my own carbon emissions? Here are some things I came up with. Think of them as Greg Mankiw’s Climate Action Plan."