Chirac: U.S. Will Bow Before The EU

J.J. Jackson* | February 3, 2007

The European Socialists are bound and determined to flex their puny muscles. President Chirac is now telling the United States that if it will not sign on to the Kyoto Protocol that it doesn’t matter and that the EU will simply slap the U.S. with a carbon tax as punishment.

PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012.

He said that he welcomed last week’s State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a “serious challenge” and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts.

But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.

“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Mr. Chirac said. “If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay.”

Ok, let’s cut through Chirac’s bull crap here. The EU is a large marketplace for U.S. goods and the EU is going to basically raise prices on it’s own citizens to promote socialism. That is what he is saying.

Only a socialist left winger like Chirac would demand that other countries sign on to a treaty that treats signatories differently. Like allowing China to be basically exempt from regulation while remaining one of the world’s largest polluters. Looks like Chirac has bought a one way ticket to Liberal La La Land.

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