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Silicon Valley Businesses To Be Hit With Global Warming Tax

By - Source: Tom's Hardware US

 

San Francisco (CA) - A Bay Area air pollution board has voted to levy an annual greenhouse gas tax on area businesses. The nine-county board said the tax will reimburse the costs for conduction global warming impact studies. 2500 businesses will be charged $1.1 million annually for the amount of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gasses they pump into the air. Most companies will only pay $1 or less, but major polluters like oil refineries could pay up to $180,000 a year.

The measure passed by a 15 to 1 vote with the sole dissenter saying the tax will likely increase in the future and become a burden on the economy

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    bildo123 , May 22, 2008 9:47 PM
    Wait let me get this, they are now going to additionally tax the oil/gas companies? NICE! Now the oil companies will have yet another excuse to the raise the price of oil/gasoline yet another dollar! God bless America.
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    wild9 , May 22, 2008 10:28 PM
    Asian enterprise doesn't have the same obligations - why?
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    velocityg4 , May 22, 2008 9:28 PM
    That's great increase cost of business in the US so that more production is done in China. Which has virtually no environmental laws, hooray for these fools.