Julia Gillard Quotes

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

Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.

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

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

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.

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

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

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

Cap and trade is an important tool in California's climate policy portfolio. It sends a price signal to industries to reduce their carbon pollution while generating billions of dollars in revenue for investments in clean transportation and direct pollution reduction.

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

If the world is to avoid a collision with nature - one that humanity surely cannot win - we must act boldly on every front, particularly with respect to carbon pricing and the coherence of our economic and energy policies.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

There may be no issue that better illustrates the differences between Republicans and Democrats than energy. Consider it the 'all of the above' strategy for reducing gas prices, versus the 'all pain, no gain' plan for punishing those who emit carbon (like you).

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.

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

Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.