Mark my word, in the next 10 days you will hear that this is the fault of The United States of America! Seriously you will hear that because of our massive consumption of energy we have caused a shift in the winds and it is up to Obama to fix the mess by taxing the American people and charging Bush with a crime!!
Seriously, I doubt what you scribed above will come to fruition.
That said, and Seriously, there will be new (higher) taxes imposed next year on the American people - regardless of what happens in Europe.