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The French Are Revolting Against Macron’s Carbon Tax
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 11/26/2018 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 11/27/2018 4:19:35 AM PST by simpson96

RUSH: I saw a story about massive protests in France. Riots, tear gas, fires, shots, all kinds of horrible things going on in Paris on the Champs-Elysees. I said to myself, “What’s this?” Well, this is one of the stories that qualifies for a busy, long weekend of news suppression. How many news reports have you seen from the Drive-By Media about the protests in France?

They’ve been going on all over France for more than a week. How many of you have seen anything about this? You may have in the last couple of days, but, even if you’ve seen the reports in the last couple of days, you still don’t know what it’s really all about.

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RUSH: I guarantee you, you don’t know why these riots in Paris and all over France are taking place, even though they’re being reported on finally, been going on for over a week, the news just hit I think on Sunday, maybe Saturday. I think it was yesterday. It didn’t make the news until yesterday when we finally had footage of fires on the Champs-Elysees. Right next to the Arch of Triumph, for those of you in Rio Linda, the Arc de Triomphe, for the rest of you. By the way, the Arc de Triomphe is where the guillotines were stationed during the height of the French Revolution. Just a little trivia there.

But here’s the kicker. This is what the Drive-By Media refused to call these protests what they are. They said the French were protesting fuel prices. They said the French are protesting fuel prices and the rising cost of living. That’s only 20% of it. You know what the French are really protesting?

The protests are against a massive carbon tax implemented by this young socialist Millennial president over there who believes climate change and all this rotgut, and so he’s trying to price the usage of gasoline and fossil fuels out of existence! A gallon of gas costs over seven bucks because of this new carbon tax. That’s why they’re protesting. They’re protesting because this president believes all this cockamamie bull about climate change and fossil fuels and believes it we’ve gotta get on to wind and solar and nuclear and so he’s got this carbon tax.

Exactly what the left wants to do here! It is a forerunner, it is an advance look at what could happen here. It’s exactly what the left around the world wants to do. This is what the media is not telling. The media’s not telling you it’s related climate change. The media is not telling you it’s related to a carbon tax. They just say rising fuel prices, cost of living. The protests are specifically against a carbon tax that Emmanuel Macron has imposed on gasoline and diesel. And he did it in the name of fighting climate change.

What the tax has done is raised the price of a gallon of gasoline in Paris to $7.06. It has raised the price of diesel by over 30 cents a gallon, and that makes it nearly as expensive as gasoline is. And this is just the beginning, because this carbon tax is slated to increase each and every year. This is what happened to nations who stayed in the Paris Accord. This is what Donald Trump withdrew the United States from. This idiot says he’s got to make good on the French promises and commitments they made to reduce their carbon footprint in the Paris accords.

But he believes it! He’s one of these idiots that believes this cockamamie bull about climate change and the end of the earth, and there’s a related story that the Trump administration knowingly lied to the American people. The administration, the Trump administration tried to hide a devastating new climate change report by issuing it on the day after Thanksgiving. And it’s a horrible set of circumstances that we now face.

Once again, for about the 30th time in the last 30 years, we only have 10 years. This is it. This is about the 25th last chance that we’ve got to stave off the usage of climate change fossil fuels. If we don’t act in 10 years, meaning if we don’t have a left-wing, socialist world government in 10 years, then the earth is not gonna be exist anymore as it exists now, maybe not be able to support life. And you’ve got a whole bunch of Neanderthals, brain-dead, maleducated people believing this garbage, including this little fruitcake that’s running Paris and running France.

This is what Trump pulled us out of. Now, it is not all nations that signed the Paris accords are actually acting on their commitments. Most of them are smart enough to know that it’s all BS, but this guy is a true believer. And he’s not backing down from it. And this is exactly what would be happening in the United States if our signatory status to the Paris accords had remained and if we had an administration that bought hook, line, and sinker this whole climate change hoax.

We have more oil in the world today than we’ve ever had, despite how much of it we’ve used. The earth continues to manufacture it, even though it’s called fossil fuels. Ask your average brain-dead American graduate of public school, high school, what a fossil fuel is. You know what you’ll hear? “It’s gasoline from dinosaurs, and that’s why there’s a shortage because the dinosaurs are dead, and they’ve been dead in a while. Pretty soon we’re gonna run off fossil fuels, and then won’t be able to make any more oil.”

And that’s what they’ve been taught; that’s what they believe. That’s why the use of fossil fuels to describe oil, well, oil still being manufactured, but we don’t have any dinosaurs, do we? And we don’t have a lot of things that are being fossilized, do we? How’s oil still be created? The earth is still doing it, ocean floor and elsewhere. We’re finding new ways to go get it. There is no crisis.

The most advanced economy in the world, the most clean nation in the world, the most advanced standard of living in the world lives on oil. That would be us. The most economically depressed areas of the world are now being denied their chance to use oil in modern-day petroleum products to modernize their economies, all because of a quest for global government. It’s not any more complicated than that.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; macron

1 posted on 11/27/2018 4:19:35 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96
The French Are Revolting...

Amen brother!

2 posted on 11/27/2018 4:21:19 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Islander7

I was wondering how many posts I would need to scroll down before either seeing ellipses or a “fixed it” post. Freepdom does not disappoint.


3 posted on 11/27/2018 4:27:06 AM PST by Hieronymus ((It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: simpson96

On CNN’s New Day they were talking down the economy and praying for a recession.

They want to sock it to Trump’s voters to get rid of him. Yes, fake news is THAT evil.


4 posted on 11/27/2018 4:27:16 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Islander7

Says it all, doesn’t it.


5 posted on 11/27/2018 4:28:52 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: simpson96

Get a load of Macron’s response to the yellow vests...

http://www.lunion.fr/125101/article/2018-11-27/direct-transition-ecologique-suivez-en-direct-les-annonces-d-emmanuel-macron


6 posted on 11/27/2018 4:29:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: mewzilla

https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/transition-ecologique-un-credit-d-impot-pour-changer-de-fenetres-1575336.html

Taxes might go down if the price goes up.

Note the use of the conditional.


7 posted on 11/27/2018 4:31:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: simpson96

There is aspect which hasn’t been explained in full details. The French have about seventy-percent of their personal vehicles which operate on diesel. Oddly, there are two taxes here. The cheaper gas tax upgrade...came out to 12-US cents more per gallon (roughly). So you’d be talking about another $8.5 a month that you need to come up with.

But on the diesel side? That tax is moving up another 24 US cents per gallon. And it’s not just private owners affected....go add in delivery vans and freight trucks (all diesel), and your average cost of living situation will escalate another 3-percent over the next year as they have to cover the taxation increase as well. All of this meant more money coming out of your pocket.

A fair number of French think this was a gimmick to get more people to buy electric vehicles. You can’t say it’s true or not.


8 posted on 11/27/2018 4:31:37 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Islander7
The French Are Revolting... You telling me? They stink on ice!


9 posted on 11/27/2018 4:32:42 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Vaquero

The French Revolution not only did away with the autocracy it created a situation where everyone shared the benefits,

And the political class in France has been trying to reverse it ever since.


10 posted on 11/27/2018 4:41:29 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory O f A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: pepsionice

http://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/2018/11/27/20002-20181127ARTFIG00110-nucleaire-taxes-sur-les-carburants-ce-qu-il-faut-retenir-des-annonces-de-macron.php

If the gilets jaunes fall for this....


11 posted on 11/27/2018 4:42:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: simpson96

The French are Revolting.


12 posted on 11/27/2018 4:46:28 AM PST by euram
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To: simpson96

Madame Guillotine !!!


13 posted on 11/27/2018 5:21:07 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

#UPDATE President Macron says he acknowledges the anger behind mass anti-government protests in France over fuel taxes, but says he will not “change course” https://t.co/lZlVVMqB1x #YellowVests #GiletsJaunes https://t.co/TJVXtArhhd


14 posted on 11/27/2018 5:23:31 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: simpson96

Hard to feel sorry for the French. They LAUGHED at Trump when he predicted just what was going to happen if this Global Warming crap started to be implemented. No different in California, where gas is closing in on $4.00.

The people in both places were IDIOTS to think that they could somehow phase out the use of gasoline without affecting its price or availability...was NEVER going to happen, and cannot happen.

Hope they enjoy paying taxes rather than drinking fine wines.


15 posted on 11/27/2018 5:35:40 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: simpson96
Truth be told, 'The French Are Revolting.' No need for the rest of that title.

Case in point:

16 posted on 11/27/2018 6:05:37 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: simpson96
And we pulled out WHY???

Cuz we didn't want to scr** our people out of money to play.

Of course, IIRC, Obama gave their little kitty a HUGE $$$$$ down payment.

17 posted on 11/27/2018 6:16:03 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Hard to argue with George on that one.


18 posted on 11/27/2018 6:32:27 AM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: simpson96

So when do the riots in Kalifornia start after Moonbeam installs a carbon tax?


19 posted on 11/27/2018 6:57:53 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: simpson96

The French masses need to pull out the guillotines.


20 posted on 11/27/2018 7:59:22 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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