Actually, France was in a broad general consensus that the introduction of a CO2 tax on fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal is the most appropriate means of the emission reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly. This is what has presented also supports the Special Commission appointed by President Sarkozy, whose chairman, former Socialist Prime Minister, now the government a report with specific recommendations of the experts. The question of how this environmental fiscal instruments to use to separate themselves but the ghost is already so much that Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde let go the transfer of the Rocard report surprisingly discreet about the stage, as if to a skeptical or even hostile public opinion not to provoke further.
The experts' report provides that, that is debited from 2010 produced by the combustion of fossil fuels with a tonne of carbon dioxide tax of 32 €. Would be affected households, but also the farms and businesses, with the exception of large industrial facilities that are already integrated into the European system of CO2 quotas. Following which the rates for the fuel consumption can be increased progressively to 100 € per tonne in 2030. For consumers, this planned management measures of energy consumption for an immediate increase in the price of gasoline means of 7.7 centimes per liter and of diesel by 8.5 centimes. would be a financial burden on the heating and hot ater preparation used fuels like natural gas, coal and fuel oil. According to estimates, this eco-tax a household of average Frenchmen per year would cost around 160 €. Still an open question is whether and how exactly one of the approximately eight to nine billion euros that flow through CO2 tax in the state treasury, as an instrument of social equality or refunded to reward environmentally conscious behavior to the taxpayer. As long as this issue is nothing ebntscheiden, the wildest rumors circulate that feed the preventive resistance to an "additional tax".
The consumer magazine Que Choisir? " already protested against "a fiscal Hold-up"; da die Privatverbraucher zur Kasse gebeten würden, während man die Grossunternehmen schone. Die linke Opposition wiederum befürchtet, dass trotz der versprochenen Rückerstattung der Einnahmen die Kaufkraft der Schwächsten leiden werde oder dass der Staat der Versuchung unterliegen werde, mit diesem Milliarden-Manna die durch Krise und Steuererleichterungen entstandenen Löcher zu stopfen. Die Atom-Gegner bemängeln, dass die Elektrizität vorerst ausgenommen bleibt, was einer indirekten Subvention der Kernenergie gleich komme.
Fast scheint es, dass am Ende alle einen triftigen Vorwand finden, um die CO2-Abgabe abzulehnen. Der EU-Grüne Daniel Cohn-Bendit lancierte darum einen Appell an Staatspräsident Sarkozy, er should stick to his original plan firm and explain it to his fellow citizens: "The French must understand that climate change and energy contribution does not necessarily is, who saves energy and consumed less, pay less This is a revolutionary measure.." The controversial concept is neither radical nor particularly new: Sweden makes good experiences with it since 1990, Switzerland has, like other European countries, a CO2 tax introduced in January 2008.
be taken Amazingly this practical experience in the French debate barely acknowledged. One has to wonder whether it is in France a counterproductive argument that the neighbors the system of climate control have already been tested.
Rudolf Balmer
07/29/2009
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