This is a fair argument, but it doesn't take into account transmission costs, or consumers that can't or won't relocate. Sure, factories might be major energy consumers, but they only account for approximately one third of US energy usage.
Carbon taxes are still a bad idea, but this article doesn't make a complete care against them.
[–] CrudOMatic ago (edited ago)
Not consumers relocating - producers relocating. At that point, who wouldn't relocate their factory? As for Mom & Pop - they wouldn't be able to keep their factories open and would outsource all their manufacturing.
Carbon taxes are yet another scheme to collapse the economies of the west - and only the west is stupid enough to buy it... of course after almost 8 decades of white-guilt and blaming the west for everything.
[–] idm03 ago
The heavy particles caught by scrubbing plants in the US that are being released by other countries poses the most imminent threat. I don't think even the climate change sycophants would dispute that. Scratch that, I don't even want to know what goes on in their empty heads.