NationStates Jolt Archive

Petrochemical Legislation
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: Automobile Manufacturing
Proposed by: Saxanglia

Description: 1. Give tax breaks to renewable sources of fuel including:
-hydrogen cells;
-cellulose ethanol;
-vegetable oil;
-recycled fats;
-iron cells
this list is not exhaustive. Benefits include a reduction in CO2 emissions, thus reducing the greenhouse effect and global warming.
2. UN subsidies to research on energy efficiency for engines. Benefits include an increase in enterprise by entrepreneurs due to financial incentives which can catalyse research programmes.
3. Ban leaded petrol. Benefits include the removal of carcinogens from the petrol station from lead residues.
4. Subsidise less economically developed nations with the ability to create energy-efficient vehicles.
5. Allow regional control on taxing road users for petrochemicals as to how they see it best in the knowledge that nations need to cut carbon emissions in the forseeable future for the benefit of the environment.
6. Compulsory catalytic convertorss in all automobiles.


http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_proposal1/match=petrochemical

This proposal encompasses all types of energy efficient fuel, not just hydrogen. It also gives less economically developed nations the opportunity to receive subsidies for energy efficient vehicles which can spur their economy.

It also imposes compulsory catalytic convertors so that posionous oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide are not released into the atmosphere from automobiles.

"Tax break" is a very relative term. Would we be talking in terms of set, definitive amounts?

Lord-Governor Matthieu Tertulien
Ambassador to the UN
Republic of Schartlefritzen

Individual nations and regions regulate their taxes independtly. For this reason, "tax break" can only be used as a broad term as nations have different sizes of resources such as land for growing renewable fuels in the case of cellulose ethanol and vegetable oil, capital such as machinery to produce hydrogen engines and enterprise such as the research that goes into renewable resources. A global tax break is too hard to enforce at specific amounts and so it must be a broad-spectrum clause.

Give tax breaks to renewable sources of fuel including:
1. Who is giving the tax break? The nation is implied, but not stated.
2. Tax breaks can only come where there is private enterprise that is taxed. Not all nations have taxes, either because of planned economies or pure laissez-faire economies.

Subsidise less economically developed nations with the ability to create energy-efficient vehicles.
Subsidise the nations themselves? Where does this help when the people or the economy will never see the money? How does this keep energy efficient vehicles in those countries; they may be built entirely by outsourcing enterprises and never benefit the local population? Who do you want to subsidise?

Compulsory catalytic convertorss in all automobiles.
Even those running on such fuels as hydrogen? That ups the cost for no benefit.