Your Carbon Rations Card: U.K. Ponders Personal Cap-And-Trade System

While American politicians mull a carbon cap-and-trade system for industry, our British cousins are already contemplating the next step: personal CO2 rations.

A Parliamentary committee in May proposed giving all British adults "carbon allowances" that they would be required to spend - along with, you know, real money - when buying gasoline, airline tickets, electricity or natural gas. Britons who wanted more credits than they were issued could try to buy them - again, with real money - from those who hadn't spent their allotment. All of this is supposed to give people a financial incentive to reduce energy consumption and thus their carbon "footprint."

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Comments

[jonbw]

Worse idea ever.

If you want to reduce pollution switch from an income tax system to a pollution tax. Don't tax hard work. Tax the destruction of our health and environment.

[UnbiasView]

As if liberals weren't naive to start on the global warming debate, we all know everything environmental comes down to more government control.

If you allow the government to control your energy, they control you.

[KillTheMessenger]

Hear, hear! You really showed it to us "liberals". And all we want is to control you!

I guess that just proved that there is no global warming, we never landed on the moon and don't even get me started on that evolution thing!

;-)

[UnbiasView]

Global warming is a political issue . . . liberals want to ban things they don't like . . . liberals want cap and trade

[KillTheMessenger]

Well, there goes another bad idea on the front page. In reality, it won't work and will never be implemented.

[UnbiasView]

They want to do it for business . . . it's only a matter of time if the socialist party is in power.

[TimmySlagle]

And you wonder why Britain is just a shadow of the Empire it once was.

"It was once said that the sun never sets on the British empire. Today, it seldom rises."

[KillTheMessenger]

I am too young to know what the British Empire looked like, but whenever I go to London, I am amazed how smashing it looks today. What a wonderful city.

[TimmySlagle]

"whenever I go to London, I am amazed how smashing it looks today"

Well, you're obviously old enough to remember back when "smashing" was a colloquialism coined by US television writers, to make actors appear more British.