Monday, December 9, 2013

corporations already using a self imposed carbon tax calculation

Shell, Exxon, BP, and these others already have their accounting factoring in a carbon tax to their future business plans and projects, using it in their decision making as if it already is a tax.  Most are using around $33 per CO2 ton.  Setting a carbon tax at the source, the mine or the well head is the simplest form of collection, the oil company pays the tax based on how much carbon is in this particular wells oil, the cost is embedded in the raw product and is thus spread through the market. This can solve all the fights about pollution laws,  driving the market to both conserve and clean up to save, and without so many rules.  It would also mean the dirtiest forms of energy (tar sands for one) would be left in the ground as unprofitable in the face of the carbon tax, meaning there will be writing down of assets and reserves.  These companies actually see this as an easier way into the future, relief from some of the laws and paperwork, higher prices falling on the dirtiest will force a migration to cleaner fuels and practices.  They also are preparing for what they believe is inevitable, they know full well what is causing global warming and that one way or the other it needs to be abated.


  • Ameren
  • American Electric Power
  • Apache
  • BP
  • Chevron
  • CMS Energy
  • ConAgra Foods
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Cummins
  • Delta Air Lines
  • Delphi Automotive
  • Devon Energy
  • Duke Energy
  • DuPont
  • Entergy
  • ExxonMobil
  • General Electric
  • Google
  • Hess
  • Integrys Energy
  • Jabil Circuit
  • Microsoft
  • PG&E
  • Shell
  • Total
  • Xcel Energy
  • Wal-Mart
  • Walt Disney
  • Wells Fargo
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    1. notacynicDecember 9, 2013 at 11:15 AM

      It also used to be embraced by some prominent Republicans. Then other ones discovered that they could score political points by ridiculing 'Cap and Tax' ...

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      1. the yellow fringeDecember 10, 2013 at 8:42 AM

        Sure, ant that stubbornness will continue for a long time, we just have to work to shorten it and the harm it enables. They cry that conserving and cleaning up and new technologies will be too expensive, history shows that applying these 3 actions to most any commodity or manufacturing process saves in the long run, often with very short pay back.

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    2. SargeDecember 9, 2013 at 1:18 PM

      So this is a good thing they are doing - what about the rests?

      Ron

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      1. the yellow fringeDecember 10, 2013 at 8:37 AM

        Yes, a good thing because they are preparing for it, and other companies will follow. Most important is it's one more signal that corporations know the truth and in various ways it's visible they know it, a little dent in the armor of the deniers. Don't hesitate to point this out to deniers, that these companies are preparing their business model for the tax on carbon.

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