You know we have overcome the dictatorship of the proletariat here in East Germany, and now we are facing a dictatorship of the climate law. I do not consider this law to be compatible with a market economy. –Andreas Lämmel, CDU member of the German Bundestag, Deutschlandfunk, 23 February 2019
Climate policy is increasingly splitting German’s coalition government of Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD). The coal exit was supposed to be part of a comprehensive climate law. But if and when that comes no one knows. That’s because the coalition committee has actually stopped the far advanced legislative project of Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD), according to the government. —Andreas Mihm, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 February 2019
Germany’s Christian Democrats are moving away from the climate change bill agreed by the coalition government, at least for the time being. The reason: “The exit from coal is ambitious enough.” CDU and CSU reject any additional CO2 reductions, as demanded by the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD). —Deutschlandfunk, 16 February 2019
The EU Commission has been accused of a gross miscalculation over its final renewable energy subsidies bill. John Constable of the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) claims the EU Commission climate policy report contains a “substantive error”, miscalculating the cost of annual levies on UK consumers by £4.8 billion. —Energy Voice, 22 February 2019
It is so easy to laugh off the GND as too ridiculous to make it. Consider what it would mean to them if they won an election and attained power.
Our news is filled with the actions of whacko’s. The radicals would try to do everything we fear they would. Like Maduro, they would refuse election results. Don’t let these guys get a foot inside your door.
As always the Democrats don’t think we can make our own choices for and so them in their infanat wisdom must make our choices for us its like going to a restruant with some wheatgerm inhaling health freak who decides they will order our meals for us and we get up and either leave or go to another table and tell them to Butt Out
Spurwing Plover you are right about the people who introduced and support this tax. However, I now realize that I was a little careless in my comment in that I omitted that this tax legislation has little chance of making it out of committee.
Washington State shows the attempt to use dictatorship to impose parts of the climate change agenda. It is well known that voters rejected a tax on carbon dioxide emissions in the 2016 elections and again in 2018. Very recently a bill has been introduced in the legislator to tax such emissions.
Wow! A sign of intelligence finally showing up. Of course these “Climate bills” are all about total control. The only way to make them work.