Chirac addresses French reporters
Posted on 02/01/2007 7:38:21 AM PST by LibWhacker
PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012.
He said that he welcomed last week’s State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a “serious challenge” and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts.
But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.
“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”
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Did England continue to collect taxes from us after 1776?
I wonder if "le Slapdique" is suggesting an imposition of this tax on China?
Buying French is sooooooo yesterday. Who buys from France these days?
I'd love to see a huge boycott of Citgo gasoline, though. That would be extremely productive.
Chirac addresses French reporters
Jacque old buddy, last time I checked, France has not paid back the trillions in war debts you owe the U.S. from pulling the froggie fat a**s out of the hands of the Germans. Go take a flying leap.....
What is the Kyoto Treaty, if not a tax? Six of one, a half dozen of the other.
They owe us a ton of money for rebuilding their asses after WW II.
Dear Adolph, give us the Jews and you can keep France.
FDR
When Airbus comes out with an all-electric passenger plane, I'll listen to what France has to say about "carbon".
Go right ahead France.... Just curious, anyone happen to know their current unemployment rates? :-)
Amen to that!
True. I don't seem to remember there ever being a waiting list to purchas the Le Car.
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Well, I'm back. Jacks gonna have to come up with a very special treat for this skunk! The bag and gunshots to the kneecaps isn't enough!
It's anti-capitalist propaganda. If France is going to be poor and miserable because of it's socialist policies, everyone has to be poor and miserable because of Frances policies.
11%, but it's improving. Damn communists know how to run an economy...into the crapper.
I know he is an actor.
I know it is a role in a TV show.
But that doesn't lessen my wish for someone with some balls to be appointed to major positions around the world who can tell France and others to get their own back steps swept before they complain about others.
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