Steven Chu Quotes

If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would offset that cost.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

A cap and trade system would put some kind of price on the carbon footprint.

The market does not work in energy...Carbon has to have a value. Today in the U.S. and China it has no value

We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

The whole action around a carbon pricing mechanism, or carbon tax, is what you do with the money. Both France and Washington state proposed solving climate on the backs of workers. And that's a bad strategy.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

We should tax what we burn, not what we earn.

Some people who oppose a carbon tax do so only because they don’t want the government to have a big role. The irony is that by opposing it, they assure that the government will have a big role dealing with the effects of climate change

We're going to make sure there is a strong price on carbon right across the country, and we're hoping that the provinces are going to be able to do that, in a way, for themselves.

One thing is that you won't get climate action without equity, and Greens around the world have always understood this. This has been the dividing point between the green party of France and Emmanuel Macron: You can't get climate policy without equity.

Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what's known as a tax swap.

The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.

The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.

If someone wants to do a carbon fee and someone else wants to do a cap on emissions or a renewable portfolio standard, we don't start labeling each other as more or less progressive.

Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.

Canadians didn't vote for a carbon tax. Justin Trudeau campaigned, promised that he wouldn't create a carbon tax.