While America falls behind the race to develop a renewable energy economy, the Australian Prime Minister actually proposes a price on carbon pollution.
Since there is no free market right to pollute, (see Hayek quote here) we need policies that move us away from the long standing statist practice of allowing harm to the property if individuals through pollution.
Conservatives complain about the government mandating gas milage standards and the kinds of light bulbs we have to buy, but they have already rejected the most free market solution to Greenhouse Emissions pollution-a carbon tax.
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