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EU plays down financial impact of carbon tax on airlines
EU Business News ^
| 06 April 2012, 17:00 CET
| (Via AFP)
Posted on 04/08/2012 4:16:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Anyone believe that the commissioner's telling the truth? Nope, didn't think so myself . . .
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:17:00 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
How about the carbon footprints to make the cup itself, having the coffee processed, packed then shipped around the world?
To: Olog-hai
The EU bureaucracy will see virtually all of this money.
Europe is still a feudalist society. The thug overseer class simply invents fake "threats" to scare the little people into handing over cash to them, so they can live like kings.
That's all this is.
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:21:11 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:21:53 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Olog-hai
"In other words, an amount less than that of a cup of coffee at the airport," she added.Right out of the DNC playbook.
Be damned the unlawfulness of it, focus on the (for starters) minimal cost per person.
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:24:35 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Regulator
BINGO! That’s why it’s called the Carbon Trading SCHEME.
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:31:35 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: Olog-hai
He’s making a coffee analogy. He should examine what a little dispute over tea cost Britain.
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:32:43 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: EGPWS
"In other words, an amount less than that of a cup of coffee at the airport," she added.
That means nothing. The price of coffee can range from a cup at a vending machine to a giant cup of Starbucks fare.
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:35:24 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Olog-hai
-— Hedegaard’s cost estimate was considerably lower than previous Commission estimates that it prompt carriers to add between 4 and 24 ($5.25 and $31.50) to the price of a round-trip long-haul flight. -—
So, the “tax imposed on airlines” is meant to be passed along to consumers. Why don’t they just have the balls to tax the citizens upfront? I wonder.
To: Olog-hai
EU is struggling to avoid having to fold on this horrible tax.
Several countries/airlines have flat-out said they will not pay it, EU is facing a Messican stand-off.
Time to stock up on popcorn.
To: Olog-hai
The foreign airline’s gripe is that instead of paying only for the length of the flight in EU airspace, it applies to the ENTIRE length from takeoff. So a 10,000 mile flight that only flies 200 miles in EU airspace pays for the entire 10,000 miles. Sorta like paying a toll bridge rate for a cross-country trip.
To: Regulator
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posted on
04/08/2012 4:58:42 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Olog-hai
Then they won’t mind if we impose reciprocal tariffs on EU airlines to recover the cost of those taxes and rebate them to our airlines.
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posted on
04/08/2012 5:02:29 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Olog-hai
The alleged purpose of the tax is to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions by airlines. They would do that by flying less. If the tax would have no impact on airlines — why bother with it in the first place? The Eurocrats are either lying (likely), or they're completely incompetent for imposing a tax that will have no effect (this can't be ruled out either).
To: Olog-hai
We need more carbon dioxide emissions to ward off the coming ice age.
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posted on
04/08/2012 5:28:27 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: Olog-hai
Yet another big, steaming pile of globaloney, with a hefty price tag to boot...
Thank you so much, nattering nabobs of nonsense!
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posted on
04/08/2012 5:29:22 PM PDT
by
MarineDad
(Wherever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
They aren’t incompetent; merely corrupt. (And that’s understated.) Ambitious too, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to tax the world in such a bold fashion.
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posted on
04/08/2012 5:30:22 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Regulator
“The EU bureaucracy will see virtually all of this money.”
There won’t be all that much of it, with significant chunks of the (rapidly developing) world giving them the bird.
Which we should do.
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posted on
04/08/2012 5:35:51 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Olog-hai
In short, when the Europeans find out the hard way why Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines have signed for a BIG Boeing 747-8I/777-300ER/787 order very soon, the EU is going to regret this.
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posted on
04/08/2012 5:41:17 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Olog-hai
FYI: Friend went thru Amsterdam in 1996 & had a small layover. Bought cup of coffee....$4 per cup & NO REFILLS!!! 1996!!
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