Betty Wolfe, Princeton
It was heartening to read in last week’s Packet that so many Princeton area residents have found a way to become active participants in the national debate over cutting greenhouse emissions. The number of Washington lobbyists for short-term commercial interests has gone through the roof in recent years, and citizens simply have to be there, too, in order to have our desire to combat climate change heard.
Also, I think that taxing carbon is the most effective way for the U.S. to move quickly to less polluting sources of energy. Right now, carbon fuels are cheap primarily because fuel producers do not pay to clean up the damage their products cause, let alone bear any financial burden for their part in climate change.
The tax will encourage private development of new technologies and methods of energy production.
Betty Wolfe
Princeton
