• Cap-and-trade system has too much room for abuse | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
  Houston Chronicle business columnist Loren Steffy, takes issue with a new carbon cap-and-trade system, which he says have an “Enron-y feel.” He adds: “[W]e don’t need incentives, we need mandates. That means a carbon tax.”
  (tags: carbon+tax cap+trade Green+Exchange global+warming climate+change)
• Editorial: “Energy Economics” || Los Angeles Times
  An L..A. Times editorial uses the example of ethanol, which it calls a “textbook demonstration of why government shouldn’t try to pick winning and losing technologies,” as a case for using market-based incentives to find better energy options, rather than
  (tags: carbon+tax carbon+emissions global+warming climate+change)
• Editorial: “The Gas-Guzzler Gambit” || New York Times
  The NY Times editorial page slams a campaign proposal to lift the gas tax: “Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton have hit on a new way to pander to American voters: a temporary suspension of the federal gasoline tax between Memorial Day and Lab
  (tags: gasoline+tax energy global+warming carbon+emissions)

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