Fee and Dividend
If most conservatives believed as Jim DiPeso http://www.rep.org/opinions/weblog/weblog10-10-11.html does, I think I would be a conservative. Incidentally many liberals (not necessarily Democrats) also see merit in this Fee and Dividend plan. The essay is not long.
Carbon-based energy imposes costs – on the environment, public health, and national security - and those costs would be made more obvious in the marketplace through the fees. Energy prices likely would go up. How much and for which uses of energy would depend largely on market dynamics.
Transparent. Market-based. Does not enlarge government. Leaves energy decisions to individual choices. Takes a better-safe-than-sorry approach to throttling back oil dependence and keeping heat-trapping gases out of the atmosphere.
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