[Olog-hai]

Anyone believe that the commissioner's telling the truth? Nope, didn't think so myself . . .

[max americana]

How about the carbon footprints to make the cup itself, having the coffee processed, packed then shipped around the world?

[Regulator]

The EU bureaucracy will see virtually all of this money.

Europe is still a feudalist society. The thug overseer class simply invents fake "threats" to scare the little people into handing over cash to them, so they can live like kings.

That's all this is.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[EGPWS]

"In other words, an amount less than that of a cup of coffee at the airport," she added.

Right out of the DNC playbook.

Be damned the unlawfulness of it, focus on the (for starters) minimal cost per person.

[Myrddin]

He’s making a coffee analogy. He should examine what a little dispute over tea cost Britain.

[running_dog_lackey]

-— Hedegaard’s cost estimate was considerably lower than previous Commission estimates that it prompt carriers to add between €4 and €24 ($5.25 and $31.50) to the price of a round-trip long-haul flight. -—

So, the “tax imposed on airlines” is meant to be passed along to consumers. Why don’t they just have the balls to tax the citizens upfront? I wonder.

[diogenes ghost]

EU is struggling to avoid having to fold on this horrible tax.

Several countries/airlines have flat-out said they will not pay it, EU is facing a Messican stand-off.

Time to stock up on popcorn.

[diogenes ghost]

The foreign airline’s gripe is that instead of paying only for the length of the flight in EU airspace, it applies to the ENTIRE length from takeoff. So a 10,000 mile flight that only flies 200 miles in EU airspace pays for the entire 10,000 miles. Sorta like paying a toll bridge rate for a cross-country trip.

[Zhang Fei]

Then they won’t mind if we impose reciprocal tariffs on EU airlines to recover the cost of those taxes and rebate them to our airlines.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The alleged purpose of the tax is to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions by airlines. They would do that by flying less. If the tax would have no impact on airlines — why bother with it in the first place? The Eurocrats are either lying (likely), or they're completely incompetent for imposing a tax that will have no effect (this can't be ruled out either).

[beethovenfan]

We need more carbon dioxide emissions to ward off the coming ice age.

[MarineDad]

Yet another big, steaming pile of globaloney, with a hefty price tag to boot...

Thank you so much, nattering nabobs of nonsense!

[RayChuang88]

In short, when the Europeans find out the hard way why Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines have signed for a BIG Boeing 747-8I/777-300ER/787 order very soon, the EU is going to regret this.

[ridesthemiles]

FYI: Friend went thru Amsterdam in 1996 & had a small layover. Bought cup of coffee....$4 per cup & NO REFILLS!!! 1996!!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard...

Would fit in nicely with Hitler.

[RetiredTexasVet]

It’s only a couple of Euros today ... and merely four euros next week, if you’ll pay two now ... and merely eight euros the week after, if you’ll pay four ....

[DesertRhino]

Thats nice,,,but i’d rather have the coffee,,