It's in motion, readers!
The destruction of American sovereignty!!!
"Climate sanctions sought against US; German party launches effort" by Judy Dempsey, International Herald Tribune | December 19, 2007
BERLIN - The Social Democrats are calling for sanctions on energy-intensive US export products if the Bush administration continues to obstruct international agreements on climate protection, the party's leading environmental specialist said yesterday.
The move, after the United Nations climate conference last week in Bali, Indonesia, has won strong support from the Greens and other leftist groupings in the European Parliament. Those factions will renew their bid to impose such levies when the Parliament reconvenes next month.
Ulrich Kelber, deputy parliamentary leader of the Social Democrats and an environmental specialist who is leading the campaign to impose levies on energy-intensive US products:
"We cannot let the US continue to block multilateral agreements, as it tried with Kyoto, or weaken them, as it did in Bali. The US is a major part of the problem. Levying special taxes or sanctions on energy-intensive US products, such as steel and aluminum, which are exported to Europe, could be the first step."
Just call it a GLOBALIST ENVIRONMENTAL TAX, and FEEL GOOD as your WALLET is EMPTIED and you can't even buy food!
US officials and the American Chamber of Commerce in Brussels said that it was too early to react to the proposals.
Environmentalists inside the Social Democratic Party and in the European Parliament said the idea behind levying taxes went beyond pressuring the Bush administration to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gases.
They also want to widen the European carbon emissions system, which at the moment excludes steel and other intensive energy products imported by EU member states. Unless such products are included, they said, it was unrealistic to believe that the trading system could reduce climate change significantly.
It's always the same old scare tactics with this crowd!!!!
The EU's emission trading program was launched in January 2005, becoming the first international trading system for carbon dioxide emissions. It covers more than 11,500 energy-intensive installations across the EU, which represent nearly half of Europe's carbon dioxide emissions, according to the European Commission.
The installations include oil refineries, coke ovens, iron and steel plants and factories making cement, glass, lime, brick, ceramics, pulp and paper.
And eventually, EVERYBODY!!!!!!
