Letter: We need a fee on carbon production

President Biden’s executive order on climate change reduces fossil fuel subsidies. It increases our investment in wind, solar and other clean energies. It’s a great step forward!

It’s not enough. We need a fee on carbon production at the source: oil drilling and fracking, natural gas extraction, coal mining, etc. Yes, a carbon fee will increase fossil fuel energy prices. We can return that fee to citizens as a carbon dividend. That will offset the higher costs!

Yes, the obsolete fossil fuel industry will lose jobs. Constructing a renewable clean-energy infrastructure will create many more jobs.

Contact Reps. Grijalva, Kirkpatrick, O’Halleran and Schweikert, and Senators Sinema and Kelly. Urge them to co-sponsor Carbon Fee & Dividend legislation.

Jerrold Borchardt

East side

Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star.