It's nice to know that I've attracted the attention of some in the corridors of power. After my post the other day about whether it was better to tax emissions or to give out emissions permits and allow companies to trade any surpluses with other corporations that need to buy more for whatever reason, I got an email from Chris Huhne tonight to let me know that he'd put something more about it up on his own website.

I presume he refers to his speech in response to the Stern Report which contains lots of good stuff. Though it doesn't (and nor would I have necessarily expected it to) factor in my personal philosophical bias towards viewing the air/atmosphere as a part of the commons, like land, which ought not to be enclosed if possible and which bias leans me towards taxing emissions rather than trading emissions.

I accept that they sort of emissions taxing I was thinking of is probably not possible at present - that we do not have a "carbon footprint" for every process and that just as it would be technologically difficult in the time frame required for action to introduce personal carbon allowances and trading it would be similarly difficult or impossible to produce a fair tax system without knowing that "carbon footprint" of every process in the economy.

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