Price carbon easier for a country than for many countries in the world

Comments on Martin Feil “The truth is, you can't put a price on carbon - no one can”, 29/03/2011, http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/the-truth-is-you-cant-put-a-price-on-carbon--no-one-can-20110328-1cdei.html?posted=successful

I have difficulties in understanding Martin Feil's point.


Yes, it is true that Australia can't put a price on carbon in the world as a whole, but it can put it in Australia, can't it?

It would be a huge task and would involve a lot of assumptions that may not necessarily be reliable to model the world carbon price, but it should be a fairly easy matter to model a price on carbon in Australia alone, shouldn't it?

I hope Martin Feil clarify his points in the post to clear the confusions generated from it.