The Swiss online Basel BAZ news site reported yesterday how the Yellow Vest fossil fuel tax protests have spread across Belgium and into the Netherlands, and so threaten to become a European phenomenon.
Previously it was thought that a move away from fossil fuels and higher taxes on them were the will of the people in Europe, and so citizens would readily accept higher taxes on them in order to get society to adopt the lean green energy diet.
However, that has suddenly turned out to be a gross misinterpretation by policymakers and activists.
Climate activists speechless – devastating signal
As the Yellow Vest protests intensify and spread, activists and delegates in Poland find themselves speechless as they begin to realize that a comprehensive transitioning over to green energies is not going to happen any time soon because their proposals are unmistakably generating anger.
The signal to the world from France could not be more devastating to the climate protection movement.
The French have sent a loud and clear message.
The BAZ writes that the European governments are so spooked by the anger that in Brussels institutions such as the EU Commission, the EU Council, and the EU Parliament had to be completely sealed off because of the demonstration.
Police arrested some 100 protesters early as a preventive measure to keep the protest from escalating out of control.
Fuel taxes hurt the poor
Also, police in the Netherlands sealed off Den Haag against protesters. The BAZ reported:
Several hundred people on Saturday also protested at the Yellow Vest demonstrations in the Netherlands against what they saw as the growing gap between rich and poor.”
Egregious arrogance, hypocrisy
One reason for the elevated level of anger is the arrogance and hypocrisy EU policymakers exhibit as they rush to impose green energies on their population.
While Eurocrats jet-set from one rescue-conference to another and lead the life of luxury on the taxpayers’ dime, they demand that citizens tighten their energy and financial belts and go without.
One egregious example of such arrogance comes from the United States. The Washington Examiner here reports how Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spent $300,000 on private jet flights (in a single month!) while demanding citizens refrain from using fossil fuels and forgo their already modest lifestyles.
The Examiner writes:
While private jets are a common tool for political campaigners, the same day the massive check was written to a private jet company, Sanders issued a call to arms to take on greenhouse gas emissions.”
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump wondered if it was time “to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement.”
Since the protests began, France has decided to put off the high taxes on diesel and gasoline fuel for the time being. Expect other European countries to crank down their fuel tax rhetoric as a result.
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Carbon taxes are a new source of OPM, other people’s money.
Socialists hated Margaret Thatcher because she was right, in more ways than one.
As much as I agree, didn’t Margaret Thatcher start the whole Climate Change hoax because she was mad at the coal miners?
You effing socialists don’t stay speechless for long.
The global warming movement was started by two groups. One we only know of because of defectors. This group wants to force de-industrialization by making energy scarce and expensive. The second group wants an excuse to create new taxes and expand the power of government, especially the UN. Since then many other hidden agenda have been added to this movement. Maurice Strong was basically the father of global warming movement in the UN.
Wrong, climate change hoax stated must before M. Tatcher.
In science there is something called a super saturated solution. It could be copper sulfate, sugar, or salt. Something is wrong in that the liquid is holding more substance than it is capable of. Even a small disturbance causes crystallization to quickly spread through the entire solution. The same is true in Europe. It is very wrong to have such high costs to fight the non-existence problem of anthropological climate change. France was the disturbance that will spread, hopefully throughout Europe.
They are speechless because people don’t want to spend 60k for electric cars with 200km autonomy that they can’t recharge anywhere, and also 98% of the western world doesn’t have a really usable public transport network?
scrap the IMF pvt banking cartel ▪ save the member Nations▪¤
On Feb 13, 2018: The judge dismissed all charges in the lawsuit brought against Dr Tim Ball by BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver. It is a great victory for free speech.
‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science’.
“Human Caused Global Warming”, ‘The Biggest Deception in History’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO08Hhjes_0
https://www.technocracy.news/dr-tim-ball-on-climate-lies-wrapped-in-deception-smothered-with-delusion/
http://www.drtimball.com