By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources, (www.originalsources.com)
September 12, 2000
In Britain today the papers report a "Petrol War" is about to break out between the public and the Army. In San Francisco, the price of gasoline is almost $2 a gallon. OPEC nations meet to consider whether or not to pump more oil and oil prices. And, conspicuous by its absence is any mention of increasing U.S. oil production in the oil rich Alaskan North Shore. Eight years of the Clinton-Gore "sustainable development" Administration has pretty much brought America's domestic oil production to a standstill.
In fact, the Greens do not consider the problems facing the average person because of the skyrocketing gasoline and heating oil prices to be a problem. They consider it a victory and have harshly condemned one national leader for reducing taxes on fuel to help truckers. The Climate Action Network (CAN), a global network of over 287 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to "limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels" reported in its Newsletter "ECO" last week:
"Mr Jospin, the French Prime Ministere, was Wednesday's winner of the NGOs' "Fossil of the day" award. He received a well-deserved blow on the head from 'Guignol' (Punch!) in our puppet show!"Within the space of a single week he has dumped several transport and road fuel taxes, for purely demagogic reasons. This has shocked most NGO groups in the country and created a backlash among greens. Dominique Voynet, French Minister of the Environment was yesterday on the brink of stepping down. "
However, greenie Tony Blair is not wavering as angry citizens demand some kind of action in Britain. The "Sun" Newspaper reports today:
"BRITAIN was on the brink of chaos last night as fuel price protesters cut off petrol supplies across the country."Amid the biggest people's uprising of modern times, hundreds of filling stations ran dry.
"Panicking drivers waited for hours to snap up dwindling stocks. Despite the revolt, PM Tony Blair refused to cut fuel tax.
"Downing Street urged police to clear oil depot blockades - although cops are powerless to move protesters as they have broken no law.
"The demos follow a peaceful Sun campaign on fuel. But a 300,000-reader petition was ignored by Number Ten.
"It was also revealed troops could be drafted in to end the petrol crisis."
In case you haven't been paying attention in the past several years, what is happening in the cost and scarcity of fossil fuels - gasoline, heating oil for winter, etc., - this is merely a triumph of the Kyoto Protocol, which Al Gore signed in 1997 calling it "Our first step" in setting "realistic and achievable, binding emissions limits." He said that the Kyoto Protocol would be:
"...strong and comprehensive, covering all six significant greenhouse gases. It recognizes the link between the air and the land, including both sources and sinks. It provides the tools to ensure that targets can be met-offering emissions trading, joint implementation and research as powerful engines of technology development and transfer. It further reduces emissions-below 1990 levels-in the years 2012 and beyond. "...Whether or not agreement is reached here, we will take concrete steps to help meet this challenge. President Clinton and I understand that our first obligation is to address this issue at home. I commit to you today that the United States is prepared to act-and will act."...So let us press forward. Let us resolve to conduct ourselves in such a way that our children's children will read about the "Spirit of Kyoto," and remember well the place and the time where humankind first chose to embark together on a long-term sustainable relationship between our civilization and the Earth's environment.
The "Spirit of Kyoto" is being demonstrated by Tony Blair who has steadfastly refused to do anything to address the skyrocketing price of gasoline in Britain:
"Sun - September 12, 2000 - Tax accounts for 75 per cent of the price of a litre of premium unleaded. The Government receives 48.8p excise duty for every litre of petrol and diesel sold - PLUS 17.5 per cent VAT. VAT charges mean the Government gets even more when oil prices go up. And the latest rise in petrol prices will net the Treasury an extra £4billion in VAT this year."The Federation of Small Businesses said Chancellor Gordon Brown could afford to slash petrol prices by 8p a litre - and called for a reduction to 50p a litre by Christmas.
"Last night refineries and fuel depots across Britain were blocked, and protest organisers vowed to step up their action.
"But fuming Prime Minister Tony Blair urged police chiefs to start clearing the roadblocks set up by truckers, farmers and ordinary drivers in a bid to make Mr Brown cut fuel tax. Police action to remove blockades would inevitably lead to violent clashes, which Mr Blair is keen to avoid. But he knows there is probably no other solution.
It's all part of that need for a "radical change" in humanity's "attitudes, values and behavior" which radical environmentalists, were talking about at the Earth Summit three years ago in the effort to reduce the world's population and achieve the world government goals of "sustainable development."
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