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
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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:

[mrbeast]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

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

Subman, I curious you seem to 'know' a lot about how bad things are over here in thre UK; have you ever even been to the UK?

[UnderseaLcpl]

The only good government is a small government that doesn't bother you much.

As far as Britain goes I've been there only twice but it seemed like a lovely country. Gas prices seemed rather high (this was when U.S. gas was only a dollar a gallon) and the taxes and gun control policies didn't suit me but other than that, very nice.

[STEED]

Get a load of this, on Country file today there was a article about wind power and Gordon Brown is setting up a greater number of wind turbines to fall in line with the EU co2 omissions target which will decrease our co2 but here's the catch, our electric bills are set to rocket sky high. Some trade off this is which is going to cause problems by 2020.