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Stacy Summary:  Just found this first story and the two that follow are from links within the first.  One of my ideas is that we should entirely remove all carbon taxes we currently pay, slash them down to zero; I would also cut income tax drastically if most of it is going to the military, which, in turn, is mostly used to ‘secure’ other people’s oil, natural gas and other resources and, thus, an indirect carbon tax.   I don’t believe that our energy systems would be as inefficient as they currently are if it weren’t for so much government spending in and distortion of the energy market.

• Fossil fuel subsidies still dominate
• Fossil fuel subsidies, taxpayer handouts are almost 10 times larger than those for renewables
• CO2 emissions would fall by 6% if we cut carbon taxes we pay to oil, gas and coal companies