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nostr:npub1a3xmjrlk9d5sx268p4hth78n7rswndax2f7w8kdtcsfk537ptgyqh4x4qp yeah, California definitely has OHV fuel sold with different tax rates. I don't know if that's with the federal taxes, I suspect it's without...

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Separately, there's the whole question of funding externalities – such as a carbon surcharge.

Best if you could get the extraction industry to pay an externalities tax, but not gonna happen. Easier, if more of a political football, to push it to the end users.

For carbon only, one gallon of gas burnt results in 20 pounds of CO/CO2. Carbon offset costs are currently ~$8 a ton, but expected to rise a lot over the next few years.

> https://climatekids.nasa.gov/review/carbon/gasoline.html

> https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/carbon-offsets-price-may-rise-3000-by-2029-under-tighter-rules/

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nostr:npub1a3xmjrlk9d5sx268p4hth78n7rswndax2f7w8kdtcsfk537ptgyqh4x4qp yeah, we need to be charging carbon externalities, or accounting for them somehow, but/and we also need to be charging for traffic violence and all the other impacts. Girl taxes aren't a perfect proxy for that, electric vehicles and all, but they are a start.