Why energy taxes will fail
Sep 12, 2011
Bishop Hill

Tim Worstall writes at the Adam Smith Insitute blog:

What the DEC is really saying is that energy demand is highly elastic to price: change the price and you'll get quite large changes in behaviour and demand. What Moxham is really saying is that this is tosh, energy has a low elasticity. We don't change our behaviour much when energy prices change. So, who is right?

Find out here.

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