One of the many things that tickle my funny bone is when the rabid right wing calls anything that might help ordinary Americans “socialist.” If the opposite of monarchy is socialist, I’ll buy it, but that isn’t the definition of socialist that I learned in school. Today I’m sure that the socialist-phobic rabid right is apoplectic about those Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank European socialists.
The equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court in Europe ruled that a law imposing fines on airlines for the carbon they emit on flights to and from Europe is enforceable. If an airline flies into any E.U. airport they will be required to purchase a permit under Europe’s carbon trading program beginning January 1.
The European Climate Commissioner tweeted her comment: “After a crystal-clear ruling today, the EU now expects U.S. airlines to respect EU law as the EU respects U.S. law.” I can hear the socialist-phobic rabid right already: “It’s bad enough that the Europeans have a Climate Commissioner, let alone that she would dare to presume that European Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank law was any where as good as U.S. law. Did I mention that the EU Climate Commissioner is a woman? She must be a Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank Feminazi.”
Europeans aren’t busy denying that climate change is real. Instead they have been busy implementing policies that might slow human emissions of carbon into the atmosphere. They actually have a Cap and Trade system. Shocking, I know. In Europe there is a cap set on allowable emissions from factories and power plants. If the cap is exceeded, the company responsible for the emission can buy the right to keep emitting carbon from other companies who are under their own cap. The result is that emissions from most sectors in Europe have fallen. The exception is the airline industry, where emissions have been trending up instead of down.
This is setting up a showdown with the U.S. The GOP, which usually loves any program that allows the trading of financial products because their decidedly not socialist financial industry backers can collect fees on the trades, is against any Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank socialist Cap and Trade Program. They also deny that there is a problem with capitalist carbon emissions. In a move that will no doubt surprise the socialist-phobic rabid right, world renowned Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank socialist and Feminazi Hillary Clinton urged the EU "to reconsider this current course" and re-engage with the rest of the world.
Homework
European Court Upholds Fines for Carbon Emissions by Airplanes
EPA Discusses Cap and Trade Programs
New York Times Discusses Cap and Trade Programs
The equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court in Europe ruled that a law imposing fines on airlines for the carbon they emit on flights to and from Europe is enforceable. If an airline flies into any E.U. airport they will be required to purchase a permit under Europe’s carbon trading program beginning January 1.
The European Climate Commissioner tweeted her comment: “After a crystal-clear ruling today, the EU now expects U.S. airlines to respect EU law as the EU respects U.S. law.” I can hear the socialist-phobic rabid right already: “It’s bad enough that the Europeans have a Climate Commissioner, let alone that she would dare to presume that European Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank law was any where as good as U.S. law. Did I mention that the EU Climate Commissioner is a woman? She must be a Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank Feminazi.”
Europeans aren’t busy denying that climate change is real. Instead they have been busy implementing policies that might slow human emissions of carbon into the atmosphere. They actually have a Cap and Trade system. Shocking, I know. In Europe there is a cap set on allowable emissions from factories and power plants. If the cap is exceeded, the company responsible for the emission can buy the right to keep emitting carbon from other companies who are under their own cap. The result is that emissions from most sectors in Europe have fallen. The exception is the airline industry, where emissions have been trending up instead of down.
This is setting up a showdown with the U.S. The GOP, which usually loves any program that allows the trading of financial products because their decidedly not socialist financial industry backers can collect fees on the trades, is against any Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank socialist Cap and Trade Program. They also deny that there is a problem with capitalist carbon emissions. In a move that will no doubt surprise the socialist-phobic rabid right, world renowned Blankety-Blankety-Blank-Blank socialist and Feminazi Hillary Clinton urged the EU "to reconsider this current course" and re-engage with the rest of the world.
Homework
European Court Upholds Fines for Carbon Emissions by Airplanes
EPA Discusses Cap and Trade Programs
New York Times Discusses Cap and Trade Programs
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