Search Results for 'gas tax' on Environmental Economics<h3 style="color: #FFFFFF" ><i>The Cromulent Economics Blog</i></h3>TypePad2023-02-06T13:53:36ZJohn Whiteheadhttps://profile.typepad.com/ecwhitehtag:typepad.com,2003:https://www.env-econ.net/.services/blog/6a00d83451bd4869e200d8341c5c0553ef/search/atom.xml?pager.sort=created_on&filter.q=gas+taxWhere's my carbon dividend check!? Semi-coherent thoughts on the Inflation Reduction Acttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e202b685250f74200b2023-02-06T08:53:36-05:002023-02-06T08:53:36-05:00While teaching emissions control policies this last week to my undergraduates, I revisited my signature of the Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends (now signed by over 3600 economists). It’s been four years since the origin of the statement, and despite it being the most agreed-upon policy statement in the history...Justin Roush"New Group, With Conservative Credentials, Plans Push for a Carbon Tax"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e2022ad37aa1b0200d2018-06-20T09:39:24-04:002018-06-21T09:28:30-04:00Let the demogoguery begin: Proponents of a market-oriented plan to fight climate change by taxing greenhouse gas emissions and giving the revenue to American taxpayers are starting a campaign to run advertisements as early as this fall and introduce legislation in Congress as early as next year. The plan’s supporters...John WhiteheadYIMBY in the JEPtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201b8d2e4db7f970c2018-03-28T15:32:45-04:002018-03-28T15:32:45-04:00In the latest issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the journal has gone all-in on YIMBY with a three-paper symposium on housing. The second paper is about changes in rates of homeownership and benefits and costs of homeownership. The first and third papers, though, are both basically making the...Garth HeutelNew book: The Shale Dilemma A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Developmenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201b7c951486c970b2018-02-19T13:09:04-05:002018-02-19T13:09:04-05:00The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development by Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2018, 472 pages The US shale boom and efforts by other countries to exploit their shale resources could reshape energy and environmental landscapes across the world. But how might those landscapes...John WhiteheadOn my reading list: "The Economic Impacts of Climate Change"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201b8d2d4a393970c2018-01-29T09:39:40-05:002018-01-29T09:39:40-05:00Abstract: This article reviews the economic impacts of climate change and the policy implications of the results. Current estimates indicate that climate change will likely have a limited impact on the economy and human welfare in the twenty-first century. In fact, the initial impacts of climate change may well be...John WhiteheadCO2 emissions: Looks like it's time to look in the mirrortag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201b8d2cc4f9d970c2018-01-03T10:10:43-05:002018-01-03T10:10:43-05:00If you want to blame U.S. power generation for climate change, you're probably living in the past. It look like U.S. transportation has passed power generation for 1st place in the CO2 emissions race: Some of the most common avatars of climate change – hulking power stations and billowing smokestacks...Tim Haab"What is the relevant uncertainty for climate change policy?"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201b8d294f425970c2017-07-11T09:21:50-04:002017-07-11T09:21:50-04:00Tyler Cowen on May 3: A number of people have climbed onto Twitter and outlined (correctly) how increased uncertainty about the impact of climate change increases the value of doing something about it. There is downside risk, and of course we wish to buy insurance against that in the form...John Whitehead...or we could just increase the gas taxtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201b8d1d41be2970c2016-04-26T11:37:21-04:002016-04-26T11:37:21-04:00Interesting results, but the policy recommendations seem like killing an ant with a sledgehammer. In the first study of its kind, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researcher Alan Meier, working with Yuche Chen of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, have estimated the fuel consumption penalty of this popular and...Tim HaabEnjoy it while it lasts?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201bb08e5a7ac970d2016-04-21T09:01:50-04:002016-04-21T09:01:50-04:00In evaluating benefits and costs, preferences matter. For the most part, people like milder weather. That's why people move to Florida and Arizona during the winter (that and tax breaks, but let's stick with the weather for now). As temperatures increase, people get more of what they like: longer milder...Tim Haab"A Look at Six State Proposals to Tax Carbon"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451bd4869e201bb08d1fb59970d2016-04-12T13:42:39-04:002016-04-12T13:43:24-04:00Dallas Burtraw: As the political likelihood of passing comprehensive national climate policy has remained low, many states have taken up the mantle. This devolution of climate policy has been further reinforced by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) efforts to regulate carbon dioxide from existing power plants under the Clean...John Whitehead