Latest comments posted about Energy taxes won't hurt the economy on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2106-Energy-taxes-won-t-hurt-the-economy http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2106-Energy-taxes-won-t-hurt-the-economy The current oil price in the global market is so high. The Chinese government is exerting its administrative means to control it in order to keep the inflation from going too high. Therefore, it is more easy and justified to just loose the price control, and the fuel price would be simply soaring, making all the consumption-reducing effects that were mentioned in this article. My point is that: when the oil price is low, we need to add tax to reduce energy use and so on. But now the oil price (the real price) is so high (roughly $130 per barrel), what is the need to put tax on the top of that? Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:22:36 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2106#comment-7513 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2106#comment-7513 It's great to read a Chinese academic arguing for fuel taxes in China -- it seems strange the price of fuel is still so low in the country. But there is a question of political saleability. In the UK fuel taxes create increasing resentment, in fact there's a very strong popular lobby against them. I wonder whether China's government would find similar resistance from motorists or hauliers, as the British government has experienced? SL Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:35:00 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2106#comment-7510 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2106#comment-7510