How Do You Control Air Pollution From Domestic Combution, From Industries, From Vehicles?
Your very right for including multiple things because transportation is only a very small part of air pollution. Basically you want to internalize the cost of the pollution so the efficient amount is created. When you drive your car you only have to deal with the costs of gas, the wear and tear on your car, and the chance you will get in an accident and not any harm to the environment. The typical way to do this would be to tax activities that cause pollution equal to the harm to the environment. Many environmentalists are unhappy with this because most activities harm the earth very slightly and taxes that do exist on things like gas are usually already higher than the efficient amount for pollution reduction so they might push for other restrictions. It is hard to find an exact amount of damage from buying one more gallon of gas so they may have a point in their insistence but there is an efficient amount of pollution that should be created and increasing taxes and restrictions beyon
