The British way of life as they know it - is done! WWII style rationing permanently!

[SUBMAN1]

You nutcase Global Warming Brits are about to get a taste of your own medicine if this passes! Serves you right in my opinion.

-S

Daily Policy Digest

Global Warming

June 27, 2008
BRITISH RATIONING

While American politicians mull a carbon cap-and-trade system for industry, the British are already contemplating the next step: personal CO2 rations. And you thought the talk about a "war" on global warming was just rhetoric, says the Wall Street Journal.
According to a Parliamentary committee proposal:

• All British adults would be given "carbon allowances" that they would be required to spend when buying gasoline, airline tickets, electricity or natural gas.
• Britons who wanted more credits than they were issued could try to buy them from those who hadn't spent their allotment.
• It would cost a country like Britain billions of dollars a year to run a personal cap-and-trade system nationwide.
• All of this is supposed to give people a financial incentive to shrink their energy consumption and thus their carbon footprint.

This is the clearest picture yet of how environmentalists want to touch every aspect of modern life, with wartime-like rations for energy, says the Journal. The duration of the global warming fight would make the decade and a half of British rationing for World War II seem like a fleeting moment.

Americans haven't even embarked on cap-and-trade for industry yet, although both Barack Obama and John McCain say they favor such a system. Now is the time for U.S. voters to ask the candidates whether they, too, plan to put the "ration" in irrational responses to rising temperatures, says the Journal.

Source: Editorial, "British Rationing," Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2008.
For text:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121434170921901019.html
For more on Global Warming Impacts and Responses:
http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=impacts-and-responses
For more on Global Warming:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=16721

[Kapitan]

If they ever do bring this out the first thing i shall be doing is bording a plane to the USA or Russia and it will be a one way ticket !

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

If they ever do bring this out the first thing i shall be doing is bording a plane to the USA or Russia and it will be a one way ticket !

Well, there is a ton of land left over here. Feel free! And get your citizenship so you can work on American nukes!

What I want to know is, what is it going to take for the Brits to stand up? Their lives get worse every day, yet no one does anything about it over there. Strange.

-S

[MothBalls]

Would beans and cabbage require "carbon allowances" ?

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

Would beans and cabbage require "carbon allowances" ?

Yes - they use hydrocarbons in the production - fertilizer.

-S

[STEED]

Gordon Brown can go and stick it up his Scottish ass.

I'm sick of Labour's BS putting the screws on us here in the UK, it's game over and the rest of the world knows it. That Bastard Brown wants us to pay for this crap like solar panels & wall insulation and so on. Thanks to this present Labour government and all those 130 taxes they have bought in since 1997 I am struggling with the cost of living.

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

Would beans and cabbage require "carbon allowances" ?

No. What you require is Air Pollution Allowances. :p :rotfl:

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by STEED

Gordon Brown can go and stick it up his Scottish ass.

:rotfl: I see you still have great things to say about your govenment.

[clive bradbury]

As usual, subman, an edited version of the article to 'prove' your point. Merely a proposal put forward by a parliamentary committee, just as all such bodies do all over the world all the time - and quickly dismissed as politically and financially unworkable. If you took the time to examine the activities of similar US political committees you would, I have no doubt, find plenty of ideas which never leave the drawing board.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by clive bradbury

As usual, subman, an edited version of the article to 'prove' your point. Merely a proposal put forward by a parliamentary committee, just as all such bodies do all over the world all the time - and quickly dismissed as politically and financially unworkable. If you took the time to examine the activities of similar US political committees you would, I have no doubt, find plenty of ideas which never leave the drawing board.

As I would expect something like this to never leave the board, but as always, you Brits always seem to surprise to the point of disbelief! Your political committees are notoriously effective at draconian policy.

Just go look at all the threads started by STEED and you will have you answer on the likelihood of this passing. I'd say the odds are quite good!

-S

[Zachstar]

It's a conspiricy!!!11 Gore/NASA ar3 tak1n over the world!!!11

You ought to see some of the crazy stuff that congress handles sometimes!

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Zachstar

It's a conspiricy!!!11 Gore/NASA ar3 tak1n over the world!!!11

You ought to see some of the crazy stuff that congress handles sometimes!

Well from your postings, it is obvious that you have no clue what is going on either for or against! Get an education and then come back. Tired of children posting like they know what is going on when they have no friggen clue. What degrees do you have? If you have at minimum an Associates, then you might know something unless it was obtained in China. Obviously that is more than anyone could hope for here.

-S

[Zachstar]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Well from your postings, it is obvious that you have no clue what is going on either for or against! Get an education and then come back. Tired of children posting like they know what is going on when they have no friggen clue. What degrees do you have? If you have at minimum an Associates, then you might know something unless it was obtained in China. Obviously that is more than anyone could hope for here.

-S

Lay off the Alex Jones talking style plz.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Zachstar

Lay off the Alex Jones talking style plz.

Lay off the talk of a 5 year old first! :p

-S

[Zachstar]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Lay off the talk of a 5 year old first! :p

-S

If you have not noticed the netspeek style used on forums like this usually are used to convey an opinion of the education or mental stability of the person they are responding or talking about.