The Erie Hiker » Dingell to Propose Carbon Tax

Sep 25 2007

Dingell to Propose Carbon Tax

Published by Mike Ingels at 8:56 pm under Politics

Congressman John Dingell will propose a carbon tax on Thursday.

I like the man’s style. He’s trying to get a wide discussion on greenhouse gas pollutants rather than the current myopic focus on auto emissions.

# Masonon 25 Sep 2007 at 9:23 pm

Hope Al Gore is the first in line to pay for flying around in his private jet.
# Mike Ingelson 25 Sep 2007 at 9:56 pm
# riaon 25 Sep 2007 at 11:11 pm

You wrote about the exact same thing I did tonight. I want his taxation to include all pollution over the limits, like the Holcim plant in Dundee. They were fined $550,000 just last year. They were 7.5 times over limits. How fair is it to tax CO2 producers and let multi billion dollar companies like Holcim off the hook for compliance. They can pay fines til the cows come home and don’t care.

I already sent a reply to Dingell about this and suggested company fines for polluting be put aside as incentive to any green company that might like to take the polluters place. A job is a job. It would balance out our economy a whole lot better.

By the way BP scuttled their special permit due to public outcry against polluting Lake Michigan any more. BP may move but Indiana has garnered Cummins, Honda, and Toyota, one of the largest bio-diesel plants with two more on line, plus 6 ethanol plants. Now that’s how a diversified economy is accomplished.