A carbon tax solves nothing

[sooperphreek]

does anything a government does really have to solve anything? for instance - i dont seem to see that bill c-51 has ended terrorism or stopped people from signing up to be one. considering that fact - why should we accept it - and why was it even brought into play? not to mention that it will be a costly venture for all the spying we will be doing on canadian citizens. money that could be better spent elsewhere. yet - the people i see railing against a legislation from a government they dont approve of gets lambasted. while what the previous government did is accepted. i think this rankling from 2 particular apologists is shamelessly politically partisan in nature.

[maryjane48]

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/china ... -1.3823786



cant use china as 3xcuse to pollute anymore

[rustled]

It's interesting to see the practical steps they're taking to address city air quality, including the centerpiece of the story, hydrogen.

They don't look at cradle to grave on any of the technologies they discuss, so here's some information about hydrogen you may find interesting:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a926/4199381/
Note that Bush championed this technology in the US.

There are more recent pieces analysing hydrogen as a fuel in the links in your story, but the chart in the Popular Mechanics piece, showing how different energy sources would provide the energy needed to produce hydrogen fuel, provides a lot of food for thought.

Your piece does not describe how the hydrogen used in China is being harvested. It would be interesting to know how much of it is coming from fossil fuels, how much of the energy used to "produce" it is coming from fossil fuel sources, how well the alternative energy sources are meeting the demand for energy to produce fossil fuels, and what consequences those technologies have for the environment.

Directing some of their resources to cleaning up the air in their cities is a very good thing, provided the methods they've chosen aren't contributing to bigger problems elsewhere. The piece doesn't mention how carbon tax fits into those methods.

[The Green Barbarian]

does anything a government does really have to solve anything? .

I guess not, because governments seldom solve any problems, they just create more problems.