by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA) First proposed in 2015, Advanced Biofuels USA’s proposal for a “Disappearing” Non-Renewable-Carbon User Fee begins: “If we’re serious about reducing climate change-causing greenhouse gases and reducing non-renewable liquid and gas use, we need serious actions.” And those actions should serve low income, high pollution areas that have suffered environmental injustices.
The first steps needed are:
Including the price of GHG effects in the pricing of renewable and non-renewable fuels.
Committing serious money to focused renewable fuel research and infrastructure development.
The simplest and fastest way to accomplishing this is adding a
Non-Renewable-Carbon User Fee to the portion of liquid transportation fuels and natural gas made from non-renewable sources.