[pp.int.general] Environmentalists and pirates, free information perspective

[Philip Hunt]

2009/10/28 Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>:
> A tax on things that directly emit CO2, or imply emission of CO2, has
> the advantage that there is no need to compute how much CO2 is made in
> building the car, or in running the car.  The tax would be imposed on
> things such as fossil fuels.  The car company would pay the tax
> indirectly by buying such things, and likewise whoever uses the car
> and buys fuel for it.

Exactly!

-- 
Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer / Press Officer, Pirate Party UK