Reducing Carbon for Shipping

Posted by libthink 07/10/2008 12:00 AM PDT

Madam Speaker,

Shipping goods to the U.S. from foreign ports is a very significant source of carbon dioxide as ships generally use diesel for power. It dumps millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year. Would you consider introducing a bill in the House to put a carbon tax on all such transport into the United States to reduce this problem and encourage domestic production of goods, which do not need to be shipped thousands of miles to market?