The Importance of a Congestable Asset

There are times when the congestable asset, there's no guarantee from the universe that it will always be valuable enough to cover the value of the public good. A great example of this is carbon credits, right? Or carbon sequestration. It has proven challenging to find ways to to find a congestable that can be sufficiently taxed in order to cover the amount of funding for CO2 sequestration or avoidance of CO2 emissions. I'm wondering if we've gotten to a synthesis where maybe there's a shade of gray on free forever and like, would it be true to say that we agree with each other here?

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