Globalists Want a Fuel Tax on All Airlines and Shipping

Globalists Want a Fuel Tax on All Airlines and Shipping Eowyn | June 7, 2011 at 9:05 am | Tags: Al Gore, Andrew Steer, climate change, global warming, IPCC, United Nations, wealth redistribution, World Bank | Categories: Crazy Politicians, Culture War, Economy, Taxes, United Nations | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-7o8

Al Gore got a "D" in science at Harvard, owns 4 huge energy-gobbling mansions, flies around in carbon-emitting jet planes,  gropes hotel masseurs, and became a multimillionaire from his scams. But that hasn't stopped him from being the guru of the Anthropogenic (manmade) Global Warming/Climate Change (AGW) conspiracy theorists.

The alarming claims of the world's foremost AGW body -- the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- about the Himalayan glaciers all melting by 2035 and the disappearance of 40% of the Amazon rainforest turn out to be bogus. Countless reputable scientists have come out against AGW. But all that hasn't stopped the One-World Globalists, in their guise of caring "environmentalists". They are hell-bent on a global wealth-redistribution and dissolving national boundaries and sovereignty.

Their latest is using the World Bank as their mouthpiece to advocate a "global tax" on jet and shipping fuel, which will be "internationally coordinated" but "nationally collected." Already, the European Union confederation is leading the way with a plan, beginning January 2012, to "levy" tax the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe, regardless of airline. That will, of course, drive up airfare, which in turn will inflate the costs of other goods.

Gerard Wynn reports for Reuters, June 5, 2011:

BONN, Germany, June 5 (Reuters) - The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday.

Developed countries have already written off chances of agreement on a new binding deal at a U.N. conference in Durban this year, placing a new focus on piecemeal efforts including fund-raising. Binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol cap the greenhouse gas emissions of nearly 40 industrialised countries but expire in 2012 and now look unlikely to be extended in time.

Andrew Steer, World Bank's Special Envoy on Climate Change

The World Bank is focusing on a levy on shipping and jet fuels in a report to G20 finance minister in October, among other efforts to keep climate action on track. "We are looking at carbon emissions-based sources ... including bunker (shipping) fuels and aviation fuels, that would be internationally coordinated albeit nationally collected," said Andrew Steer, World Bank special envoy for climate change.

The Bank estimates the extra cost to help the developing world prepare for more droughts, floods and rising seas at $100 billion annually. Various sources put the extra cost of cutting carbon emissions at $200 billion or more annually.

Steer said ... "let's get on with delivering what is committed," ...referring to various voluntary emissions targets and measures including a target agreed two years ago for the world to raise $100 billion climate aid annually by 2020.

The U.N. talks are stalled on the future of Kyoto, which only caps rich country emissions.... Global shipping and aviation emissions are neither limited nor measured under Kyoto. As a result these sectors are coming under closer scrutiny and the European Union in particular is involved in an escalating spat with the global airline body.

The EU plans a levy on the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe from January 2012, regardless of airline, a measure the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Sunday called illegal.

In addition to a levy on transport fuels, the World Bank is investigating raising funds from the sale of emissions permits to countries and companies, as already happens under the EU carbon market, and soft loans from development banks to stimulate private sector cash, said Steer.

~Eowyn

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