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 weeks 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There is extraordinary wine produced in U.S.
My hubby and I visit wineries wherever we travel.
My husband has gotten into wine making, and is making some very good wines. It's a pretty inexpensive hobby, and it is not very time-consuming at all.
I think France should do something about all those burning cars scattered all over their country every month, surely that's not helping the environment, is it?
Two words:
TAX
THIS
Even the French don't buy French stuff. It costs too much and it's pure merde anyway.
French Products and Companies to Boycott
The following companies are subject to boycott:
** Air France. Air Liquide. Airbus. Alcatel. Allegra (allergy medication). Aqualung (including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest). AXA Advisors.
** Bank of the West (owned by BNP Paribas). Beneteau (boats). BF Goodrich (owned by Michelin). BIC (razors, pens and lighters). Biotherm (cosmetics). Black Bush. Bollinger (champagne).
** Car & Driver Magazine. Cartier. Chanel. Chivas Regal (scotch). Christian Dior. Club Med (vacations). Culligan (owned by Vivendi).
** Dannon (yogurt and dairy foods). DKNY. Dom Perignon. Durand Crystal.
** Elle Magazine. Essilor Optical Products. Evian.
** Fina gas stations and Fina Oil (billions invested in Iraqi oil fields). First Hawaiian Bank.
** George Magazine. Givenchy. Glenlivet (scotch).
** Hennessy. Houghton Mifflin (books).
** Jacobs Creek (owned by Pernod Ricard since 1989).
Jameson (whiskey). Jerry Springer (talk show) ** Krups (coffee and cappuccino makers).
** Lancome. Le Creuset (cookware). L'Oreal (health and beauty products). Louis Vuitton. ** Marie Claire. Martel Cognac. Maybelline. phisto (shoes and clothes). Michelin (tires and auto parts). Mikasa (crystal and glass). Moet (champagne). Motel 6. Motown Records. MP3.com. Mumms (champagne).
** Nissan (cars; majority owned by Renault). Nivea. Normany Butter.
** Parents Magazine. Peugeot (automobiles). Pierre Cardin. Playstation Magazine. ProScan (owned by Thomson Electronics, France). Publicis Group (including Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising).
** RCA (televisions and electronics; owned by Thomson Electronics). Red Magazine. Red Roof Inns (owned by Accor group in France). Renault (automobiles). Road & Track Magazine. Roquefort cheese (all Roquefort cheese is made in France). Rowenta (toasters, irons, coffee makers, etc.). Royal Canadian.
** Salomon (skis). Sierra Software and Computer Games. Smart & Final. Sofitel (hotels, owned by Accor). Sparkletts (water, owned by Danone). Spencer Gifts. Sundance Channel.
** Taylor Made (golf). Technicolor. T-Fal (kitchenware). Total gas stations.
** UbiSoft (computer games). Uniroyal. Universal Studios (music, movies and amusement parks; owned by Vivendi -Universal). USFilter.
** Veritas Group. Veuve Clicquot Champagne. Vittel. Vivendi.
** Wild Turkey (bourbon). Woman's Day Magazine. ** Yoplait (The French company Sodiaal owns a 50 percent stake). Yves Saint Laurent.
** Zodiac Inflatable Boats.
One way to get your article read is state France tells US to do ______.
Face it, France cant tell the US to do anything. They (and the rest of Europe) dont want a trade war with the US. Besides, as the article pointed out, France is already protectionist in their policies and talks out of both sides of their mouth. Yawn. Are they still talking?
Chirac's time in power is running out and his best friend was hanged a few weeks ago.
We should try to be more understanding of Chirac, who is going through difficult times. /s
Thanks for providing the list of French products!
Try Chopin Vodka. It's made from potatos as vodka is supposed to be. It's made in Poland not France. It is extra awesome, really!
Try Chopin Vodka.
I like Chopin as well. My other "Top Shelf" choice is Hangar - distilled in an old NAS Alemeda hanger. And then there is Level, and.....
Well, you get the idea...
Nice photo; is that a house cat lying down behind Der Fuehrer? That cat had more courage than the French army.
I want to see the frogs come and collect.
BFD. The EU will be history by 2012, and quite possibly France will be, too. Its islamic successor will not care in the least about carbon.
Heh. You could have had it from the rail car where the WWI armistice was signed, and the large monument next to it commemorating the French victory.
-- except that in 1940 Hitler took the car back to Berlin with him and had the stone memorial blown to smithereens. vive la france.
What...Probably cleaner than the water on their boat.
Great. Good idea. Why dont' we recriprocate and slam a union and minimum wage tax on all imported items from countries that do not bestow worker-paradise benefits to their workforce, and do not implement the same enviromental protection protocols that the U.S.A. does.
Because the allies needed a postwar alternative to the communists, who were the main reason the French army did not resist the nazis and potentially the prime beneficiary.
DeGaulle and his rump "Free French" government in London were a bunch of skanks but provided the strong-man alternative to Stalinism. We installed him as the French government after the liberation of Paris by American troops, pretending he had something to do with it to boost domestic legitimacy.
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