Norway’s 16-year-old tax on the carbon-dioxide in motor fuel could be used to cover the Nordic country’s purchase of emissions quotas to help meet Kyoto goals, according to a prominent local educator. Government should make use of (carbon tax revenues) in 2007 on NOK1.36 billion in greenhouse gas emissions and not just use the money as “a creative way to provide the state with new revenues”, Professor Terje Hansen of Norges Handelshøyskole, a business college, wrote in newspaper Dagens Næringsliv Tuesday. The carbon tax of some 0.80 kroner is double what the cost would be of covering the emissions of Norwegian cars with emissions-quotas. Norwegians have long paid double what Canadians pay at the pumps, largely due to the carbon tax. The Professor largely appears to argue that Norway’s automobile “(carbon) bill” is already paid.