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Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming
RIA Novosti ^ | April 3rd 2007 | RIA Novosti

Posted on 04/03/2007 11:03:32 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bbq; globalwarming; policestate
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To: Optimill
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
21 posted on 04/03/2007 11:11:41 AM PDT by SledgeCS (If islam is the ROP then explain to me why the shia and sunni are killing each other???)
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To: Jeff Chandler

” 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!


22 posted on 04/03/2007 11:11:44 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
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?

23 posted on 04/03/2007 11:11:56 AM PDT by Swordfished
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To: Optimill
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.

24 posted on 04/03/2007 11:12:02 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Billthedrill

$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


25 posted on 04/03/2007 11:12:10 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Jeff Chandler
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.

26 posted on 04/03/2007 11:12:39 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
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To: Optimill

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.


27 posted on 04/03/2007 11:12:42 AM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Optimill

Yep, that ought to do it.

Thank God the world is saved!!

Gore, the big bore will be pleased.


28 posted on 04/03/2007 11:12:57 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
They don’t want you to give it up, they just want you to pay them to allow you to do it.

BINGO!

29 posted on 04/03/2007 11:13:04 AM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Optimill

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


30 posted on 04/03/2007 11:14:10 AM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: Holicheese

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


31 posted on 04/03/2007 11:14:43 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Optimill
Oh the humanity. The loss of one of the great cultural icons of our time belgian BBQ. Snicker
32 posted on 04/03/2007 11:15:20 AM PDT by ladtx ("You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." Will Rogers)
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To: Frank_2001
Imagine if they tried something like that in Texas, hehe;)

You'd pay it while whining.

33 posted on 04/03/2007 11:15:42 AM PDT by Inquisitive1
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To: Optimill
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...

34 posted on 04/03/2007 11:17:00 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Frank_2001
Imagine being the poor schmuck that happens to be the low man on the totem pole that evening who gets that order...
35 posted on 04/03/2007 11:17:15 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Constitution Day
All barbecue snobbery aside, this is just stupid on its face. I hope Algore becomes rotisserie for Beelzebub.
36 posted on 04/03/2007 11:18:30 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: P-40

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!


37 posted on 04/03/2007 11:19:35 AM PDT by Holicheese (I love shrimp and grits.)
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To: Optimill

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.


38 posted on 04/03/2007 11:19:37 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Constantine XIII
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"...

39 posted on 04/03/2007 11:20:37 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

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


40 posted on 04/03/2007 11:21:24 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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