Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming

RIA Novosti ^ | April 3rd 2007 | RIA Novosti

[Optimill]

BRUSSELS, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - The government of Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia, which has a population of about 4 million, has approved a tax on barbequing, local media reported.

Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbequing. Beginning June 2007, residents of Wallonia will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session.

The local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new tax legislation from helicopters, whose thermal sensors will detect burning grills.

Scientists believe CO2 emissions are a major cause of global warming.

[SledgeCS]

Here is another thought. How could they tell the diff between grill types. Charcoal puts out more smoke than propane and electric puts out none

[garyhope]

” from my cold, dead fingers.”

I think you meant from your cold, dead, sticky, sauce and cheese covered fingers.

And don’t forget the bacon!

[Swordfished]

The local authorities plan to monitor compliance with the new tax legislation from helicopters, whose thermal sensors will detect burning grills.

And what are the helicopters fueled by?

[Publius6961]

Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming...

... how much CO2 will the helicopter pump out as they look for those rogue BBQ parties???

Democracy (Freedom) by oppression... coerced to conform to the arbitrariness of the bureaucracy... neurotic, pathologically criminal, benevolent, doesn't matter...

My first impulse was to post my usual forum laugh...
On brief reflection, I got cold chills.

[Bruce Kurtz]

$26.71 each time to grill? My brother retired in Belguim I’ll have to ask him about that. In the meantime I bought a porterhouse steak which I will BBQ tonight using real charcoal.

Bruce Kurtz

[Boston Blackie]

I’ll give up my grilling when they pry my hot burnt burgers from my cold, dead fingers.

The S.O.B. who attempts to take my grills will make the network news.

[P-40]

The article does not say if you still have to pay the tax if you sequester carbon in trees you grow yourself and then release it while cooking.

[garyhope]

Yep, that ought to do it.

Thank God the world is saved!!

Gore, the big bore will be pleased.

[Ditto]

They don’t want you to give it up, they just want you to pay them to allow you to do it.

BINGO!

[Dr. Zzyzx]

Gee, this would have been a good Scrappleface if it weren’t true!

[rockinqsranch]

It’s Belgium, If it’s armed it would be armed with pamphlets of warnings of being warned and propaganda about Global Warming.

[ladtx]

Oh the humanity. The loss of one of the great cultural icons of our time belgian BBQ. Snicker

[Inquisitive1]

Imagine if they tried something like that in Texas, hehe;)

You'd pay it while whining.

[Publius6961]

Is it possible for an entire country to be both delusional and suicidally insane?

Is this Darwinism in its ultimate form?

Belgium has been a cartoonish country for a number of years now...

[Abathar]

Imagine being the poor schmuck that happens to be the low man on the totem pole that evening who gets that order...

[Lee'sGhost]

All barbecue snobbery aside, this is just stupid on its face. I hope Algore becomes rotisserie for Beelzebub.

[Holicheese]

What would happen if you open a can of soda or a can of beer during this BBQ? Would there be an additional tax for the release of CO2 trapped inside the cans?

What gives?
I bet there is more CO2 released that way than from BBQ. I know I have released my share of greenhouse gases after drinking cheap beer!

[EagleUSA]

No surprise. This is typical of what the entire global warming scam is all about — food for socialists to generate tax-based revenue — just follow the money.

[Publius6961]

It’s official:
Belgium is WORSE THAN HITLER.

But it's for a noble cause this time: the salvation of humanity!
< /sarc >

And it's a "democracy", so it's OK.
Sort of like the "Democratic Islamic Republic of Pakistan"...

[Constitution Day]

He’ll get what’s coming to him. What we need is a tax on SMUG.