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May 28, 2008
They call it a scheme
and they're right, that is exactly what it is:
Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.
Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.
Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven’t used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company........
HOW THE SCHEME WOULD WORK
Every adult in the UK would be given an annual carbon dioxide allowance in kgs and a special carbon card.
The scheme would cover road fuel, flights and energy bills.Every time someone paid for road fuel, flights or energy, their carbon account would be docked.
A litre of petrol would use up 2.3kg in carbon, while every 1.3 miles of airline flight would use another 1kg.
When paying for petrol, the card would need to swiped at the till. It would be a legal offence to buy petrol without using a card.
When paying online, or by direct debit, the carbon account would be debited directly.
Anyone who doesn’t use up their credits in a year can sell them to someone who wants more credits. Trading would be done through specialist companies.
You have to figure that whoever said there will always be an England never saw this coming. But don't worry America... we won't see that here, at least for a while anyways. Oh no, you see, all three of the liberals running for president are firm believers in the fifty cent carbon tax on each and every tank of gas. So... no matter who wins, we'll get that carbon tax first.
And.... We'll get the carbon ration card later, in addition to the carbon tax on gas. but only after the brits prove that:
1. there is no benefit other than to its employees who get government jobs and benefits out of it (all of whom are ignorant dumbasses who barely speak english and are otherwise unemployable) and
2. it costs so much money to run the program that money from other programs will have to be used and taxes raised to help cover the costs.
In Canada, they're going for the tax hike:
They'll call it "carbon pricing" or some other weasel words, but the impact will still be higher gasoline prices and home heating bills.
No, no, no, Liberals will insist in the ad campaign. This won't be a tax hitting at the pumps or in the furnace. It will only tax oil refineries and power generators. And where, pray tell, does one expect that tax bump to land? Why back on the motorist and homeowner, of course.
I imagine the next step is to link your carbon ration card to your bathroom scale, so you can be taxed for the amount of CO2 you exhale on a daily basis based on your body weight.
la la la... welcome to the liberal agenda... sponsored by the GOP.
Posted by LindaSoG at May 28, 2008 07:15 AM
Comments
Remember how the cigarette taxes started, to fund the veterans bonuses, benign and reasonable at the time. Uh, where are those bonuses?
Posted by: Jack at May 28, 2008 12:44 PM
I think the word should be scam, not scheme...
Posted by: ProphetJoe at May 30, 2008 08:57 AM