Posts by staplethat 4 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2012
And you will probably be charged for the meter-reader to come to your home, even though you presently fill in the meter reading on a card and post it to the company. It seems the companies will tolerate that arrangement for a year or so. Then you'll be start getting letters threatening to charge you thousands of dollars ($50,000 is one example from Toronto) if you don't agree to a smart meter.
It is encouraging that you have learned something of the benefits of carbon dioxide and I would be interested in knowing what evidence you have found for "the many bad effects of too much of it". After extensive research all I have been able to find are reports issued by the controversial IPCC and its supporters. Of course I've also found credible challenges to those reports. The claim that carbon dioxide causes weird weather is something that insurance companies would surely latch onto because it is their business to make money and higher insurance premiums mean higher profits. So I'm wondering how what you call a carbon tax to bring down insurance costs would work. Would insurance companies pay the tax? Or would governments tax you and me (because we exhale carbon dioxide on our property) and then use the tax to subsidize insurance companies? Would that be sustainable?
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