Elon Musk hits out at Australia over ruling to hide stabbing videos
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has hit out at Australia over the country's attempts to ban footage of a Sydney church stabbing on his social media platform X.
Elon Musk in a new interview revealed that he approached the Joe Biden administration about implementing a carbon tax as a way to encourage a faster shift to renewable energy in the US, but he was told that the idea was essential “too politically difficult.”
Musk described the conversation with the Biden administration during a new podcast with Joe Rogan, an American comedian and podcast host, on Thursday.
“I talked to the Biden administration, and they were like ‘Well, this seems too politically difficult.’ And I was like, ‘Well, this is obviously a thing that should happen.’ And by the way, SpaceX would be paying a carbon tax too. So I’m like, you know, I’m like, I think we should pay it too. It’s not like we shouldn’t have carbon generating things. It’s just that there’s got to be a price on this stuff,” Musk said.
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Musk suggested that consumers should pay the tax and rebates could be extended to people who make lower incomes.
“If we just put a price on carbon emissions, the market will react in a sensible way. But because we don’t have a price on it, it is behaving badly,” Musk noted.
Musk calls carbon concentrations in the atmosphere and environment an “unpriced externality.”
“The fundamental good of Tesla is to what degree it accelerates the advance of sustainable energy. It’s inevitable. It’s tautological,” Musk explained.
“It’s either we have sustainable energy or civilization collapses. And so if civilization doesn’t collapse we will have sustainable energy, it’s just a question of how soon does that happen. Sooner is better.”
This is not the first time when Musk has raised the issue of the carbon tax. In 2017, Musk reportedly pushed a similar idea for a carbon tax with the then-new Trump administration came into power, but got “little no support”, reports said.
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