President Barack Obama speaks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation s 45th Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. A season of goal-setting opens as the United Nations adopts a new 15-year plan to staunch grinding world poverty, to improve health and education and to quell climate change, Sept. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Re: The potential effect of Obama s $10-a-barrel oil tax, Feb. 22 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer David Minshall warns that President Obama s call for a $10-a-barrel oil tax will put an undue burden on the middle class.
If we can begin to address the effects of climate change by taxing oil, the cost will be well worth it in terms of cleaner air, cleaner water and less disruption of the ecological systems that are being degraded by carbon pollution. I just wish this was the worst burden that our children and grandchildren will have to bear because of the wanton over-use of fossils fuels over the last century. The sooner we begin charging a fee for carbon use, the fewer adverse effects we will leave to be dealt with by future generations.
Susan Permut, Monument
This letter was published in the Fab. 28 edition.
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