Not all news from the United States is depressing. First there was the report, discussing a possible carbon tax, published by the Office of Tax Analysis in the last days of the Obama-administration in a frantic effort to beat the clock.
Not all news from the United States is depressing. First there was the report, discussing a possible carbon tax, published by the Office of Tax Analysis in the last days of the Obama-administration in a frantic effort to beat the clock. It is highly technical in the sense that it explains at what point the tax can or should be imposed, how much the revenue would be, which taxes can be eliminated to make the exercise 'budget-neutral' and what the advantages are over the 'cap-and-trade' system (which is what we have in our country and which is such a failure, that hardly anyone knows that it exists).
Then there was this astonishing article in the New York Times about how three stalwarts of the the Republican Party, all three former Secretaries of State (Minister of Foreign Affairs) under republican presidents, wrote a paper on how to roll back Obama's Clean Power Plan by imposing - guess what? - a carbon tax and why that would be a good idea!
In the mean time Jimmy Carter - remember him? - installed 3852 solar panels on 10 acres of his peanut farm.
As they say: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"!