re: #8 Aceofwhat?

Isn’t pollution synonymous with environmental damage?

No.

No, you’re not getting it. The harvesters, combines, trucks, etc. are paying taxes on their own emissions, because they’re buying heavily-taxed fuel, unless they’re running on clean energy. It’ll drive the price of corn biodiesel through the roof, unless the supply chain is running on clean energy. Follow?

Oh, you’re seriously proposing an instant tax that would affect every farmer, every truck driver, etc overnight? I thought you meant a tax on the energy companies, not a tax at the pump. That would be absolutely disastrous.

No need to figure it out. The energy source is taxed, adding cost to energy-intensive work, which adds cost to the price of the mined elements.

The energy source would be in China.