France Tells U.S. To Sign Climate Pacts Or Face Tax

The United States could face possible European carbon taxes on its exports if it does not sign global climate accords, French President Jacques Chirac was quoted as saying in an interview published Thursday.

“A carbon tax is inevitable,” Chirac reportedly said in the interview with the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and French weekly Nouvel Observateur. Read more...

2 comments:

The Unseen One said...

Maybe we should make them pay back-protection taxes for all those years we protected them from the USSR.

Jim Powers said...

…And when we propped up their currency from collapse, and when we liberated their county in WWII, and….