Posted on 07/27/2015 12:44:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The debate is finally over. After more than a year of national consultations, draft bills and parliamentary discussions, French MPs finally adopted the bill for an Energy Transition for Green Growth on Wednesday 22 July.
The substance of this far-reaching bill was subject to significant re-shaping by both houses of the French parliament, as well as the government. [ ]
The adopted bill contains several last minute additions, including a Senate amendment to increase the carbon tax on fossil fuel use to 56 per ton in 2020, a four-fold increase, and 100 in 2030. The trajectory of the carbon tax increase is a good sign a few months ahead of the COP 21. Its a good sign that should be enshrined in the 2016 budget, said Lorelei Limousin from Climate Action Network.
The first challenge to the energy bill came immediately after its adoption. On Thursday 23 July, 60 senators from the right wing Republican party asked the Constitutional Council to review the legality of the legislation. They claim that the procedure followed by the joint committee in examining the energy transition bill contravened the principle of bicameralism.
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More “legalized theft by the state
Later
Carbon tax = tax on carbon-based fuels = limits on the use of carbon-based fuels = cutting permissible forms of energy by some 90%
Automobiles cannot yet run on any kind of atomic reactor, and the long-term storage of electricity is still a very expensive proposition, in terms of reliable AND inexpensive batteries. So most of the energy we use on a daily basis is reliant in some way on carbon-based “fossil” fuels. Even natural gas, composed mostly of methane, is a carbon-based fuel, and still subject to this pernicious tax.
And capping nuclear power output to 63.2 gigawatts. No further economic growth for France.
Is there anything they don’t tax over there?
The U.S. progressive liberal democrat/rino communist uni-party will be doing the same shortly now they have a ready made template.
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