Call to tax 'wasteful' plasma TVs
 

*Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6654301.stm)*
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Governments should tax plasma screen televisions because of the large amount of energy they consume, according to a leading expert on climate change.

Professor Paul Ekins, who studies the economics of climate change, said taxing plasma screens would reflect their "greater climate change burden".

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