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	<title>Colorado Liberty &#187; carbon tax</title>
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		<title>Keeping Boulder Green Isn&#8217;t Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Boulder Colorado has been having a little trouble getting people to reduce their carbon footprints according to the Wall Street Journal article Boulder Struggles With Energy Conservation. In 2006, Boulder voters approved the nation&#8217;s first &#8220;carbon tax,&#8221; now $21 a year per household, to fund energy-conservation programs. The city took out print ads, bought radio time, sent email alerts and promoted the campaign in city newsletters. But Boulder&#8217;s carbon emissions edged down less than 1% from 2006 through 2008, the most recent data available Why can&#8217;t the city of Boulder get these carbon emissions down? &#8220;What we&#8217;ve found is that for the vast majority of people, it&#8217;s exceedingly difficult to get them to do much of anything,&#8221; says Kevin Doran, a senior research fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Yes Kevin, controlling the sheeple can be difficult at times. As Paul Sheldon says, &#8220;We still have a long way to go,&#8221; says Paul Sheldon, a consultant who advises the city on conservation. Residents &#8220;should be driving high-efficiency vehicles, and they&#8217;re not. They should be carpooling, and they&#8217;re not.&#8221; And yes, he adds, they should be changing their own light bulbs—and they&#8217;re not. What is wrong [...]]]></description>
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