[LINK] change in the rhetoric: carbon dioxide tax [was: Re: Nuclear power stations.

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:32 PM 20/03/2011, Chris Maltby wrote:
>And if dumping CO2
>into the atmosphere imposes costs on others, then it makes sense to
>recover those costs from the dumpers, via a tax perhaps.

This morning on Insiders, Piers Ackerman consistently referred to the 
government program as a 'carbon dioxide tax' instead of a carbon tax. 
What is going on with that? He may be accurate, but he's also a 
climate-change sceptic. What is this code change about?

Jan



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