Comments on: Airline chief warns governments not to squander opportunity for a global sectoral solution for aviation http://greenjourney.com.my/2009/10/airline-chief-warns-governments-not-to-squander-opportunity-for-a-global-sectoral-solution-for-aviation/ Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:10:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Klem http://greenjourney.com.my/2009/10/airline-chief-warns-governments-not-to-squander-opportunity-for-a-global-sectoral-solution-for-aviation/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Klem Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:38:56 +0000 http://greenjourney.com.my/?p=43#comment-24 "“I am very happy to see a price on carbon – it should be applied equitably across geographies; uniformly across all industry sectors; and it should incentivize improvement and investment in new green technologies rather than simply penalize all activity." This guy is in La La Land. Cap&Trade will be applied to industries which produce electricity. Electricity is used by everyone for everything. That means it will drive up the cost of everything, penalizing all activities. Including airlines and passengers. What does he think it would do? ““I am very happy to see a price on carbon – it should be applied equitably across geographies; uniformly across all industry sectors; and it should incentivize improvement and investment in new green technologies rather than simply penalize all activity.”

This guy is in La La Land. Cap&Trade will be applied to industries which produce electricity. Electricity is used by everyone for everything. That means it will drive up the cost of everything, penalizing all activities. Including airlines and passengers. What does he think it would do?

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