Paris riots show difficulty of fighting climate change with taxes

Syracuse.com ^ | December 6, 2018 | by AP

[Oldeconomybuyer]

PARIS -- The "yellow vests" in France are worrying greens around the world.

The worst riots in Paris in decades were sparked by higher fuel taxes, and French President Emmanuel Macron responded by scrapping them Wednesday. But taxes on fossil fuels are just what international climate negotiators, meeting in Poland this week, say are desperately needed to help wean the world off of fossil fuels and slow climate change.

Macron said the higher tax was his way of trying to prevent the end of the world. But the yellow vest protesters turned that around with the slogan: "it's hard to talk about the end of the world while we are talking about the end of the month."

The resistance to the fuel tax is a personal blow to Macron, who sees himself as the guarantor of the 2015 Paris climate accord, its strongest defender on the global stage. He has positioned himself as the anti-Trump when it comes to climate issues.

[Balding_Eagle]

Yes.

Did you notice that a lot of the article was dedicated to “if only the right people would implement this tax it would work”?

[oldtech]

” Get enough Euros and the Earth is saved! YAY!” Or you could get ALL the Euros with a big enough tax & then find out that nothing about the climate has changed...now or later.

[prophetic]

and I do recall back in September reading an article where one of those idiots/liars at the UN climate research facility said That in order to stop climate change, the price of gasoline needs to be raised to $240 per Gallon!!

It never cease to amaze me as to the extreme wickedness of these people!

[oldtech]

Yes...why worry about the end of the world if you can’t get past the end of the month anyway?

[freedumb2003]

>>Or you could get ALL the Euros with a big enough tax & then find out that nothing about the climate has changed...now or later.<<

You will never make it in the government scam business. Too honest :)

[gibsonguy]

“Paris riots show difficulty of fighting tryanny without rifles.“ 👍

[SunkenCiv]

Those taxes have nothing to do with fighting climate change, those taxes are about raising taxes, nothing more. The climate is 100 percent natural 100 percent of the time.

[Nailbiter]

....... buy a battery car for two to three times the cost of a gas/diesel car.

And what will charge the battery, unicorn rainbow farts?

[greeneyes]

. buy a battery car for two to three times the cost of a gas/diesel car.
And what will charge the battery, unicorn rainbow farts?
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Coal??? Snicker

[Forward the Light Brigade]

What to get people so pissed off they want to start a Revolution? Raise their Taxes. Thats why we have a USA and why the French King and Queen were decapitated.