Posted on 06/27/2008 8:50:17 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
While American politicians mull a carbon cap-and-trade system for industry, the British are already contemplating the next step: personal CO2 rations. And you thought the talk about a "war" on global warming was just rhetoric, says the Wall Street Journal.
According to a Parliamentary committee proposal:
All British adults would be given "carbon allowances" that they would be required to spend when buying gasoline, airline tickets, electricity or natural gas. Britons who wanted more credits than they were issued could try to buy them from those who hadn't spent their allotment. It would cost a country like Britain billions of dollars a year to run a personal cap-and-trade system nationwide. All of this is supposed to give people a financial incentive to shrink their energy consumption and thus their carbon footprint. This is the clearest picture yet of how environmentalists want to touch every aspect of modern life, with wartime-like rations for energy, says the Journal. The duration of the global warming fight would make the decade and a half of British rationing for World War II seem like a fleeting moment.
Americans haven't even embarked on cap-and-trade for industry yet, although both Barack Obama and John McCain say they favor such a system. Now is the time for U.S. voters to ask the candidates whether they, too, plan to put the "ration" in irrational responses to rising temperatures, says the Journal.
Source: Editorial, "British Rationing," Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2008.
For text:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121434170921901019.html
For more on Global Warming Impacts and Responses:
http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=impacts-and-responses
For more on Global Warming:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32
Sorry, you are 15 minutes over on your breathing allotment this month. No, you cannot borrow from next month. Yes, put that plastic bag over your head for the next 15 minutes, then you can take it off.
pure lunacy, i think some people spent to much time watching sci-fi when they were young and now want to drive the world in that direction. remember logans run? maybe we will all have a cap on our age in the future too and have to report for our appointed time of death.
Britain is cooked. It’s over for them. Very sad to see.
Alright, who wants to defend McCain on this?
you better start feeling sorry for us, we are head for the same pot as them.
You have been fooled.
Sir Winston must be spinning in his grave................
Airfield One indeed.
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Well be taxing you
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I remember Carbon, that is what I used to put in my typewriter when I needed two copies, haven’t used any in years, I guess I am doing my part to save the planet.
So will they adjust your allotment based on weight?
The bigger you are the more C02 you produce as a result of respiration.....
Holy crap. This is unreal.
Chicken Little was a weak-minded liberal.
Doesn’t matter.
The current UK government is already on the way out.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Britains never will be slaves.” Hah. The nation is very nearly a real live example of Orwell's 1984.
Can’t we all just get a personal tree?
How many times in a month will you be allowed to fart?
One word for it, INSANITY.
Reminds one of the tulip bubble where one bulb was worth
more than a fortune.
Obama and MCain were both imposed on us by the latte-drinking class. who are all caught up in this hysteria.
I’m not voting for John McCain because I don’t want a carbon trading system here, period.
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Just remember - a NON-vote for McCain, is a VOTE FOR OBAMA. I will be holding my nose when I pull the lever for McCain, but the CONSEQUENCES of allowing Obama to get into the White House are so horrifying and beyond comprehension, that there is NO CHOICE but to prevent it.
I think very few are VOTING FOR MCCAIN, but are voting AGAINST OBAMA.
More like “Brave New World.” That’s where normal human reproduction is eliminated/one has to get a license to have a kid.
Don’t these idiots have to PROVE that CO2 is a problem first?
Bring it to court and we’ll crush your pro-socialist, anti-science butts!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Cockamamie ideas like this are why the Labor party is about to lose power for a generation.
Uh...yours wouldn't be the monitor with the white-out on the screen, would it?
Mine too.
Britain is being increasingly dominated by a suicidal, self loathing mindset.
And yes, we have some of the same rot here.
Police will be issued Infa-Red equipment to fine you for farting in public.
Police will be issued Infa-Red equipment to fine you for farting in public.
ALL BUYING,SELLING,TRAVELING,HUMAN ACTIVITY COMES UNDER CONTROL WITH THE WARMING FRAUD...WELL GEE WHIZ!
No kidding, maybe we should just throw all the Lawyers in Washington into the Sea and that might help the Global Warming Crap.
Forget Britain. We need to take out the trash, PDQ!
Drivers with odd number plates breathe on odd days of the month. Even number drivers can breathe on even days.
Great Britain needs to start rationing stupid.
Forget Britain. We need to take out the trash, PDQ!
Wouldn’t it be more direct to simply ration O2? The exercise of control over the rationee would be much quicker, and isn’t that the point?
That and the taxes. But yes, over 60% of the British population think that any form of Carbon taxation is a bad idea. This ludicrous boondoggle is sending even the undecided and uninformed over the edge.
I once loved that song....darn.
“Sir Winston must be spinning in his grave................
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Yes, but it is their own fault for dispatching the Defender of Britain from office as soon as the guns fell silent, in exchange for going on the dole.
The court said the EPA has to do that; so far they have been avoiding the declaration.
Only one exhale allowed per two inhales. Got it.
If you hike, you do a lot of heavy breathing, and expel a lot of CO2. How will the fascists measure that?
I keep seeing these fools saying “I won’t vote for McCain” and yet refuse utterly to offer any suggestion of what alternative might be a clear, level-headed and thinking solution.
If they vote for Obama, they put a Leftist Marxist in office.
If they don’t vote at all, they still put Obama in office.
If they write in a vote, they take one from McCain, putting Obama in office.
If they stay home, non-voting, gives that much more clout to the Left, who WILL put Obama in office.
Voting for someone like Ralph Nader shows the person is clearly an idiot and shouldn’t have a right to vote.
Voting AGAINST Obama by voting for McCain is the ONLY, CLEAR, LOGICAL solution to the problem at this point. Meanwhile fighting to remove the liberals from the Republican Party will give us a chance to bring back Conservatism to the masses.
Any other solution is illogical. Any non-vote for McCain is nothing more than an ignorant option and these people simply refusing to think for themselves... and it is my learned opinion that many of them here are PLANTS FROM THE LEFT TRYING TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM VOTING FOR MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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