To Mike Speciner & Ch. Greathouse -- suggest instead of complaining, you acquire more data and find out answer yourself. Cross-country comparisons like this are always problematic due to criticisms like those you said (since all countries differ, you never can get an exact apples-to-apples comparison, and there is always some way to speculate some other factor might have explained it...) but in the present case I certainly did not do the optimum job, and you can improve it, and I'd welcome you doing so instead of complaining. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org
Europe has an excellent public transportation infrastructure, and so it's easy for their people to shift over from personal transportation. This possibility is very much limited in the US, and so I'll modify my previous statement to say that a carbon tax will only slightly reduce CO2 emission. -- Gene
________________________________ From: Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:12 PM Subject: [math-fun] carbon taxes
To Mike Speciner & Ch. Greathouse -- suggest instead of complaining, you acquire more data and find out answer yourself. Cross-country comparisons like this are always problematic due to criticisms like those you said (since all countries differ, you never can get an exact apples-to-apples comparison, and there is always some way to speculate some other factor might have explained it...) but in the present case I certainly did not do the optimum job, and you can improve it, and I'd welcome you doing so instead of complaining.
-- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org
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