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Carbon Tax
(noun)
- A government-imposed tax on the carbon content of fuels.
- A method of carbon pricing.
- A way to ensure that the market price for fossil-fuels accurately reflects the true environmental, health and social costs inflicted upon society by their consumption. In theory, such taxes (known as “Pigovian” taxes) seek to include the cost of damages inflicted by accelerated climate change.
Carpool
(noun)
1. The arrangement between two or more drivers to split the costs and duties of commuting.
2. That thing you have to talk to the neighbors about this weekend to make sure they know Billy’s staying late Tuesday for soccer practice.
3. A really, really unfortunate Tom Arnold movie from 1996.
4. No, seriously, does anyone know why the above happened?
5. A web-based talk show where there android from Red Dwarf interviews people in his car, which we’ve never seen but sounds kind of awesome and which you should probably go check out once you’re done reading this post because he’s interviewed Patrick Stewart and Corey Doctorow.
