claim: The costs of emissions regulations, which will be paid by everyone, will be punishingly high and will provide no benefits to most people anywhere in the world.
evidences.evidence_id: Environmental economics:65
evidences.article: Environmental economics
evidences.evidence: Increasing the costs of polluting will discourage polluting, and will provide a "dynamic incentive," that is, the disincentive continues to operate even as pollution levels fall.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Environmental economics:66
evidences.article: Environmental economics
evidences.evidence: A pollution tax that reduces pollution to the socially "optimal" level would be set at such a level that pollution occurs only if the benefits to society (for example, in form of greater production) exceeds the costs.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Market failure:37
evidences.article: Market failure
evidences.evidence: Because there is very low cost but high benefit to individual drivers in using the roads, the roads become congested, decreasing their usefulness to society.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Net metering:37
evidences.article: Net metering
evidences.evidence: point out that while distributed solar and other energy efficiency measures do pose a challenge to electric utilities' existing business model, the benefits of distributed generation outweigh the costs, and those benefits are shared by all ratepayers.
evidences.votes: REFUTES REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: United Kingdom enterprise law:5
evidences.article: United Kingdom enterprise law
evidences.evidence: The National Health Service was set up in 1946 to provide everyone free health care, regardless of class or income, paid for by progressive taxation.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO