Action Quote by Robert F. Engle

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

— Jose Angel Gurria

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

— Barack Obama

I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's…

— Van Jones

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

— Van Jones

We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and…

— Martin O'Malley

We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would…

— Robert F. Engle

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade…

— David Suzuki

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

— Elon Musk

One of the things that we need to do immediately is try to move our self away from petroleum-based or fuels from carbon-based fueling…

— Patty Judge

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at…

— Timothy Noah

Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged…

— John W. Snow