For Immediate Release January 27, 2021 Frederick, MD With so much talk about carbon taxes, carbon pricing, carbon cost and highway user fees, Advanced Biofuels USA’s proposal for a “Disappearing” Carbon Tax, is part of today’s launch of The CLEEN Project’s co-operative database, a searchable collection of actionable ideas to combat climate change, Build Back Better, and advance climate justice.
The Advanced Biofuels USA proposal emphasizes the environmental justice aspects of assuring that existing fleets and internal combustion vehicles which will be around for decades can have the greenest, cleanest, most defossilized fuel possible.
“Until electric vehicles are affordable, available, powered by renewables and use fair trade batteries, many people will still be driving vehicles that need liquid fuels,” noted Advanced Biofuels USA executive director, Joanne Ivancic. “Our proposal to tax the fossil fuel part of transportation fuel and power means that transpor