Rasing taxes and using carbon credits to save the planet.

This has been tried already in Australia

The government, much the everyones displeasure, introduced carbon tax in australia and it was directly passed onto the customers. Every product, thats every single thing that you pay money for (fuel, food, electricity, tools, cars, utensils, everything) increasing in price for the consumer.

At no point did the consumers think, prices are high lets save the planet by using renewable energy. We just get the bill for the extra cost in manufacturing, and distribution.

Actually when people did say they want renewable we got a further increase in the electricity bills.

Carbon credits are another thing that have been around in australia and i have been involved with them directly.

Carbon credits are a total scam.

Companies to install new lighting in factories and warehouses for next to nothing.

They fudge all the energy savings for maximum government rebates, and install cheap Chinese lights like the popular induction flouro high bays which offer rubbish light and need more of to do the same job and need replacing far more often. Or best case LED lights which are genuinely better but also suffer from low light output and can be unreliable.

Both of which suffer from the issue that instead of just changing the bulbs when the light fails now it's more cost effective just to buy a whole new light. Which really defeats the energy saved from changing out the old light in the first place.

The factory/warehouse is happy cause they got new lights for cheap and the company that changed them out gets carbon credits from the government for savings in energy that the factory makes for the life of the old lights.

The company then sells these credits high consumers of energy/polluters for the highest price like a commodity on the stock exchange. The people who bought these carbon credits then say they have offset their carbon and are actually very environmentally friendly when they haven't changed a thing.

So nobody is actually changing anything, it's just a scam to make it look like there are energy saving being made when really there are not.