How to Pay for Administering the Carbon Tax on Home Heating Fuels? With an Excise Tax on Home Heating Fuels!
These people have no shame.
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC), which is charged under the Clean Heat Standard (Act 18/S.5) with operating the “carbon credit” system created by the law, is now soliciting ideas for how to fund said operation. Keep in mind that the carbon credits on their own are estimated to add at least 70¢ to every gallon of fossil-based home heating fuel (oil…
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