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October 31, 2006
Global Warming Inspires British Bureaucrats to Loot the Public
If you think global warming doesn't affect you, you must not live in Britain, where Environmental Secretary David Miliband has been inspired by climate fluctuation hysteria to make a bid for sweeping "enabling powers" to extend carbon emission controls to cover "non-energy intensive" sectors of the economy, including supermarkets and hotels. The staggering costs of indulging in this moonbattery will as always be passed along to the consumer.
Green tax levies are already laying a heavy load on the shoulders of anyone who travels by air or drives a vehicle that won't blow over in a stiff wind. But that's not enough for Miliband, whose schemes would cause gas prices to keep going up in Britain even as they go down everywhere else.
EU agreements meant to suppress economic activity greenhouse gases by having countries trade carbon credits fail to cover many industries that do not produce significant emissions. But Miliband wants to force these businesses to buy carbon credits anyway, driving up prices for consumers.
David Frost of the British Chambers of Commerce calls this approach a "stealth tax" by which "business becomes the villain."
But of course, business has always been the villain from the point of view of moonbats.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 31, 2006 11:39 AM
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Some self-proclaimed "climate" reporter blithered this week that he will no longer strive for "objectivity" or "balance" in providing written drivel on the issue of global warming, saying the debate is over and those who take issue with the existence and/or cause of GW are flat-earthers. This same Orwellian stance was taken last year here:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/11/the-false-objectivity-of-balance/
How do you spell "propaganda." Herr Goebels would be proud.
monsoon
Posted by: monsoon at November 1, 2006 6:03 AM
Taxing the Public won't change anything; it will just make People irate. If they put restrictions on what some People have and burn and waste, fair enough, but taxing People is bally unfair and very hard to assign logically. Besides, according to J P Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis, Nature will look after itself, so what is the worry?!
Posted by: Patrick at November 2, 2006 12:17 PM
