Photosynthesis: nature requires carbon dioxide
It's Ireland's turn to find ways of sucking the life out of its economy to appease the climate alarm lobby.
H/T The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
Irish MPs and senators are split over plans for a fourfold increase in carbon tax to put Ireland on course to meet its 2030 climate change targets, following the yellow vest protests in France, says The Times.
Fine Gael and Green Party members of the Oireachtas climate action committee want a report next month to recommend a carbon tax of at least €80 a ton over the next decade, which would add €12 to the cost of filling a car with diesel or petrol and €7.20 to a bag of coal.
Sinn Fein is opposing increases in carbon tax until there is better public transport, grant aid for retrofitting houses, and lower costs for electric vehicles. Fianna Fail is also against recommending a carbon tax rise in the climate action report.
The Greens want the tax to be doubled to €40 next year, with annual increases of €5 over the next decade until it reaches €90.
Eamon Ryan, the Green Party leader, said the money raised should be paid back to households as a carbon dividend.
The rebate would begin at about €200 per household — based on the Greens' proposed €20 carbon tax increase in next year's budget — rising to €600 by 2030 if the tax reaches at least €80 per ton.
Ryan said: "We are not going to be given a pass about hitting our carbon targets. We are facing massive fines if we don't get there, and will face an even bigger task the following decade. We are 70% away from the emission reductions we need, and the government is going to have to change the transport and agriculture sections of the national development plan."
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