Tax tariffs on resouces can be different depending on usage. Government should have the possibility to stear precise the use of resources.
A house can be easy changed from fuel oil to a heat pump. New cars should drive with electric power instead of diesel. But airplanes can not be changed to electric power. Fuel oil, diesel or kerosene, all are refined items from oil. From the different problems to change one of this applications to electric power from renewable energy, it comes to the political demand to tax them very different. To avoid a break down of air traffic and maritime transport in a future oil crisis, other applications have to be terminated by hard taxational steering. |