ine Hansen was one of the earliest warning of global warning and today one of the most prominent of those warning of the consequences of failing to curb carbon emissions.

In an op-ed piece in Sunday’s New York Times, Hansen challenges the “cap Online buy Viagra and trade”

route that is the favorite with Congress and the Administration Levitra buy cialis overnight shipping online kamagra to reduce Buy Brand Levitra Online carbon emissions. It is favored because it would create a cornucopia of special-inters benefits to dispense Levitra low price levitra to the politically most powerful industries.

Every economist that I know favors a tax on buy viagra online discount | buy cialis cialis | buy levitra online cheap carbon rather than cap and trade.

Mr. Hansen proposes to couple buy ampicillin online the tax with an equal viagra sales “dividend” paid back to the people – creating amoxil online what could be amoxicillin a politically appealing alternative to cap and online ampicillin trade. He explains why this approach would be far superior to cap and trade. Unfortunately, economic efficiency and fairness to the common people seem to have little weight in our political system, even with Obama as the supposed head of our government.

Below are some excerpts with a link to the full story.

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Cap and Fade

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Published: December 6, 2009

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There is a better alternative, one that would be more efficient and less costly than cap and trade: “fee and dividend.” Under this approach, a gradually rising carbon fee would be collected at the mine or port of entry for each fossil fuel (coal, oil and gas). The fee would be uniform, a certain number of generic propecia dollars per ton of carbon dioxide in the fuel.

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The public would not directly pay any fee, but the price of goods would online levitra rise in proportion to how much carbon-emitting fuel is used in their production. [Emphasis added.]

All of the collected fees would then be distributed to the public.

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Prudent people would use their dividend wisely, adjusting their lifestyle, choice of buy levitra vardenafil vehicle and so on. Those who do better than average 0nline pharmacy in choosing less-polluting goods would receive more in the dividend than they pay in added costs.

For example, when the fee reached $115 per ton of carbon dioxide it would add $1 per gallon to the price of gasoline and 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt-hour to the price of electricity. Given the amount of oil, gas and coal used in the can you buy prescription drugs online without a prescription United States in 2007, that carbon fee would yield about $600 billion per year. The resulting dividend for each adult American would be as much as $3,000 per year. As the fee rose, tipping points would be reached at which various carbon-free energies and carbon-saving technologies would

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COPENHAGEN levitra brand name — While the U.S. Congress debated whether to include less purchase viagra | buy cialis generic online | levitra buying than $1 billion in funding for buyviagra | buy cialis overseas | buy levitra drugs Amtrak in the stimulus package, the Danish parliament has put all its economic stimulus eggs in one basket: transportation. The small Nordic country of 5.4 million people will spend 94 billion kroner, or about $16 billion, by 2020 to improve transportation. Two-thirds of that money will be used to make public transit even better than it already is.

The government will invest billions in high-speed intercity trains that will cut travel between northern Jutland and Copenhagen by a third, install light rail systems, cialis ampicillin buy buy Buy Cialis online cialis internet shelf life expand the Copenhagen Metro, and widen and Buy cheap Female Viagra Online lengthen city bike lanes.

"We are making public buying propecia transit a lot more attractive with massive investments to increase capacity, improve on-time performance and lay brand-new railroads. We are also making the biggest push to promote cycling in recent memory," said Transport Minister Lars Barfoed.

For Copenhagen, already one of the world’s most bicycle-oriented cities, that is a very tall order. The oil shocks of the 1970s inspired Denmark to build a vast network of bike lanes in the hope that Danes would start driving less and biking more. Three decades later, the strategy has borne fruit in Copenhagen, where buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra a third of the inhabitants, or more than 500,000 people, now bike to work every day.

For visiting American tourists, rush Viagra Buy Antibiotics medications Professional hour in Copenhagen is an eye-opening event. There is more congestion on Copenhagen bike lanes than on streets. Soon there may be more. The city now plans to increase commuting by bike to 50 percent of workers by 2015. For many here, that will be back to the future.

According to the Danish Cycling Associati on, in the last 15 years, Danes have begun to slump

on their handlebars. The country as a whole saw a 30 percent drop in buy amoxicillin biking as pedalers shifted to the comfort of cars. Now the government Buy Zithromax Online is determined to spend 1 billion kroner ($171 million) to encourage even more biking by improving cycling lanes, adding bike parking and producing advertising campaigns.

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Denmark is keenly aware of the symbolism of a possible new global carbon emission reduction treaty at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this year. The new public transit plan is meant to show visitors that the Danes are leading by example.

"Now we will finally Online Viagra buy buy viagra pill | where can i buy cialis | buy levitra online break the CO2 curve, which no previous government has managed," said Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard. "We are putting far purchase buy ampicillin cheap viagra online | where to buy cialis | order online levitra more resources in public transit than into roads. By taxing cars in a climate-friendly way, new emission demands on taxis and new ‘green’ tolls on roads, generic diflucan we will cut CO2 emissions and reduce traffic jams at the same time."

The legislation was supported by all parties in the Danish parliament except a fr

inge former communist group. It is based on several core principles:

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Speeding up and sprucing up the rails

The biggest single item in the transportation package online drugstore is 22 billion kroner for new train signal systems to align the Danish railway network to modern European standards, allowing better safety and higher train speeds and even full automatization of the commuter train lines in the Copenhagen area. Right now, commuter trains are run by mechanics, but the newer, automated metro system runs pilotless within the city.

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A third of commuters in Copenhagen bike to work. The city would like to raise that

to 50 percent.
An additional 13 billion kroner will be used to lay down extra railway to double capacity on certain corridors and increase train speeds from 120 kilometers per hour to 160 kph, cutting transit time between amoxil online Copenhagen and Odense, the birthplace of fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen, by 25 percent Cialis online to only one hour.

The line and signal improvements buy pfizer viagra online | buy cialis pills online | buy levitra vardenafil will also cut travel time between Odense and Aarhus Cialis from 1 1/2 hours to 1 hour, and between Aarhus amoxicillin and Aalborg, the country’s fourth-largest city in northern Jutland, from 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1

hour. The government’s ambition levitra on line is to cut train travel from Copenhagen to Aalborg, a distance Cialis for sale of 260 miles, to only 3 hours from the current 4 hours and 30 minutes.

Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, with 300,000 inhabitants, will also get a new light-rail system that will service stations in the city every 5 minutes online pharmacy starting in 2015. The central government will contribute 500 million kroner to the project, with additional investments coming from Aarhus’ city hall.

"A light-rail system will help the environment and public transit in the city, and will have the same effect for Aarhus as the Metro has had for Copenhagen," said Aarhus Mayor Nikolai Wammen.

Those who insist on driving get ‘road pricing’

The state-of-the-art Copenhagen Metro opened in 2002 and currently serves 22 stations on two lines. A Metro rider can reach downtown Copenhagen from the airport in only 15 minutes.

Under the new bill, the metro will build a third line circling the city at a cost of 1.5 billion kroner.

"We’re talking about an important change of direction in Danish transport policy," said Johs Poulsen, a member of parliament from the opposition Radical Party.

"We’re really placing our bets on increasing public transit. buy viagra online discount At the same time, there is a breakthrough in individual traffic, with the introduction of road pricing."
Under the legislation, the government will come up with rules to make it cheaper

to buy a new, more environmentally friendly car, but more expensive to use it. The final rules will not be released until next year, but they are expected to include road pricing, with tolls differentiated according to the amount of pollution buy cheap viagra each car emits.

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Car owners’ lobby FDM was unhappy with the legislation, saying more money was needed to ease rush-hour congestion on roads in a country where buying a new car currently triggers a 180 percent tax.
The state-of-the-art Copenhagen Metro opened in 2002 with two lines. Viagra Jelly Construction for a third line has received the green light.

FDM’s complaints so online pharmacy levitra far have remained unheeded, and the government actually generic kamagra added more expenditures for certain drivers in the new Buy diflucan online bill. Particle filters on trucks were made mandatory from Viagra Professional 2011. New taxicabs will have to be more where can buy viagra energy efficient, emitting 20 percent less CO2 per car compared tadalafil to the current fleet of mostly Mercedes-Benz sedans.

Consolation for drivers: a 12-mile bridge to Germany

Some drivers got one wish fulfilled: Denmark will build a 12-mile bridge to Germany over the Baltic Sea’s Fehmarn Strait.

The bridge will cost 32 billion kroner, or buy cialis cheap about $6 billion, and will be financed and owned entirely by Denmark. Construction will begin in 2012, and the cost will be recouped through tolls, so technically, the funding for this bridge is not included in the total bill for the stimulus package.

The bridge will have a four-lane highway and a two-track railway connecting Rodby in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany. It will cut the 4 1/2-hour trip between Copenhagen and Hamburg by 1 hour when it opens in 2018.
Some German environmental buy antibiotics without prescription groups oppose the bridge, but Denmark says the link would cut CO2 emissions compared with amoxicillin lasix buy online the ferries that cross the strait nolvadex buy now.

It will be the third major transport link built in Denmark in recent years. The Great Belt Bridge, connecting the Danish islands of Zealand, home to Copenhagen, and Funen, opened in 1998. Two years later, Sweden and Denmark were connected by the Oresund Bridge between Malmo and Copenhagen.

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