Patrick proposes $2 ‘carbon fee’ for Logan parking – The Boston Globe — If you want to jack up prices because you are a mismanaged city, then just say so. Calling it a “Carbon Tax” is bogus. Look for this sort of thing wherever the locals are too dumb to protest.

In the same month that Logan International Airport hiked its parking rates by $1, Governor Deval Patrick is asking for another $2 parking “carbon fee” as part of his transportation overhaul filed this week.

The carbon fee, described on page 137 of Patrick’s 141-page bill, would that mean a 20- or 30-minute trip to pick up a relative at Logan could cost $6 in parking alone, not including tunnel tolls, which could rise to as much as $7 if legislators fail to pass Patrick’s other proposal to raise the gas tax. Three hours in a Logan garage would cost $18; all-day parking in a garage would run $26.

Boston’s short-term rates are currently higher than those in the nation’s largest cities – from New York’s LaGuardia to Los Angeles International, to Chicago’s O’Hare.

It’s still cheaper than the miserable SFO airport in San Francisco.

Found by Joe Carlson.