Pressure Grows For Green Taxes To Be Axed

Electricity prices are likely to double as a direct result. Enough is enough

Benny Peiser, --July 9, 2011

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Ministers were under pressure last night to ease the burden of hidden green charges on soaring fuel bills. --David Derbyshire, Daily Mail, 9 July 2011
Many of the climate levies on our bills are regressive taxes. They are not reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme is a scam – it just transfers emissions from Britain to China and India where they don’t have to follow the same pollution laws. These policies have to be re-examined. And we have to work out why we are the only country in the world that has a legal obligation to cut CO2 by 80 per cent of its 1990 target. We are putting ourselves at a huge disadvantage. --Labour MP Graham Stringer, 9 July 2011 If Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has his way, Britons will be forced to subsidise renewable energy by approximately £100billion in the next 20 years. Electricity prices are likely to double as a direct result. Enough is enough. The Government should now consider a complete moratorium on green energy legislation that threatens to impose huge additional costs on all those who are already facing spiralling power bills. --Benny Peiser, Daily Mail, 9 July 2011 Global leaders should give up their fixation on cutting carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, leaders should be focusing on providing as much cheap, abundant, dispatchable power to their citizens as possible. --Robert Bryce, Huffington Post, 8 July 2011 In another gem of a piece that exceeds even his infamous “2012 Meat Apocalypse” prediction, George Monbiot has warned that global warming Co2 is breeding an invasion of the jellyfish that spells the end of vertebrate life itself! --Haunting the Library, 9 July 2011 Discoveries announced in a journal article over the weekend may prove a game-changer for global rare earth supplies and recent diplomatic maneuvering in East Asia between China, Japan, Vietnam, and the United States. --The New Security Beat, 7 July 2011

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