Carbon Credits Quotes

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

There is not enough money in Washington for the subsidies we will need to solve the global warming problem. The money must come from Wall Street.

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

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

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.

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

We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it.

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

Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

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

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

There is simply no defending the preferred mode of travel for many of the celebrity crazies who lecture us about carbon credits. Do you think these folks are willing to give up their mansions and private jets in order to 'save the planet?'

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

I hope the EPA will listen to the many votes over the years in Congress opposing cap-and-trade and rescind that proposed rule.

The Clean Energy Jobs legislation will provide predictability and certainty for large carbon emitters.

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