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Originally Posted by brzlegend
I'm amazed you can buy soda in California with all the CO2 in it or is that a low CO2 soda?
How much is the carbon credit for a can of soda?
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Carbonated drinks don’t have a special carbon tax—just sales tax and CRV. Sugary drinks like soda have special taxes in some cities to deter consumption. I believe a carbon tax on sodas does exist in many cities in the US or has been tried.
The carbon in soda and other carbonated drinks like these seltzer waters are typically captured by energy producers for bottlers, which would have been released in the atmosphere anyways. A can of carbonated water contains about 2-3g of carbon. A gallon of gas contains 8,887g. The average person uses more than a gallon of gas a day to drive. Average fuel economy is 25 mpg or around 350g CO2 per mile with 40 miles driven per day, so 14,000g or 14kg of CO2 per day. The single day carbon production from a typical car is equivalent to a person’s annual consumption of soda if a person had twelve sodas a day, so yeah, probably not an issue.
If California was going to create carbon taxes on food and beverages then meat and not soda would be on the top of the list.