By Jody Lowenstein
This election, residents of Washington state will head to the polls to vote on a ballot initiative proposing the “first carbon tax in the US, the biggest in North America, and one of the most ambitious in the world.”[1] The proposition, Initiative 732, would impose a tax on fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gases, rising to $25 a ton in 2018, and gradually increasing “over a few decades until it hits $100 a ton in 2016 dollars.”[2] To put this cost in perspective, a “typical passenger car emits about five metric tons of carbon dioxide in a year.”[3] The cost of this tax would increase gasoline prices by 25 cents a gallon and 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour of coal-fired power.[4] The measure proposes to use the tax revenue to “reduce the state sales tax . . . eliminate the business and occupation tax on manufacturing,”…
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