Steven Chu Quotes

A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to the consumers. But the issue is, how does it actually...how do we interact in terms with the rest of the world? If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we would be at a disadvantage. . . . We should look at considering duties that would offset that cost.

We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

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

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

A cap and trade system would put some kind of price on the carbon footprint.

The market does not work in energy...Carbon has to have a value. Today in the U.S. and China it has no value

Some people who oppose a carbon tax do so only because they don’t want the government to have a big role. The irony is that by opposing it, they assure that the government will have a big role dealing with the effects of climate change

We're going to make sure there is a strong price on carbon right across the country, and we're hoping that the provinces are going to be able to do that, in a way, for themselves.

Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.

The whole action around a carbon pricing mechanism, or carbon tax, is what you do with the money. Both France and Washington state proposed solving climate on the backs of workers. And that's a bad strategy.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.

The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into economic decision making.

Canadians didn't vote for a carbon tax. Justin Trudeau campaigned, promised that he wouldn't create a carbon tax.

'Cap and trade' generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business. Tax with 100% dividend, in contrast, would spur our economy, while aiding the disadvantaged, the climate, and our national security.

I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

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

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.