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2007-02-01 Europe

Chirac tells U.S. to join climate protocol or face taxes

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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's see: Taxes, or 10 times that much in economic burden. Hmm.

Posted by gorb 2007-02-01 00:10|| 2007-02-01 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The EU will lose a tariff war. Chirac's an idiot.

Posted by Slirong Ulaiger4307 2007-02-01 00:53|| 2007-02-01 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 and we should pay attention to anything that Chirac says, why? This doofus is all hat and no cattle.

Posted by RWV 2007-02-01 00:54|| 2007-02-01 00:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I can think of nothing more polluting than Airbus airliners, especially those widebodies produced in Toulouse. Close behind are millions of high priced BMWs and Mercedes cars.

2006 US trade deficit with Europe: $128.4 billion. Makes me wish the US fires the first volley in a tariff war.

Posted by ed 2007-02-01 01:05|| 2007-02-01 01:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Note that this is the head of the "conservative" party in France. What a doofus.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-02-01 01:57|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-02-01 01:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Note that this is the head of the "conservative" party in France. What a doofus.

In his youth he sold the communist paper. In fact he was investigated by the French secret services.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-02-01 04:38|| 2007-02-01 04:38|| Front Page Top

#7 "We must have a UNOE a UN organization for the environment which would in some sense be the environmental conscience of the world and which would be capable of coordinated action."

"Conscience"? "Coordinated action"? The UN? ROFLMAO!!!!!

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-02-01 05:42|| 2007-02-01 05:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Translation:

We want to keep our fussy little socialist/regulatory perks, but the regulations and taxes required make our businesses unable to compete with the U.S. and the Pacific Rim, so we'll invent a "crisis" to use as a big stick to smash those nations into a less competitive mode in order to prop up our own economies.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-02-01 06:06|| 2007-02-01 06:06|| Front Page Top

#9 ed, that's not entirely accurate. The Airbus superjumbo is currently highly emissions friendly. Of course, once they actually fulfill some of the orders and get those birds flying, that's going to change. ;)

But it is fascinating how all of a sudden airliners have been discovered to be emissions monsters at about the same time that Airbus first revealed how badly they are screwing up. Coincidence?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-02-01 06:26|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2007-02-01 06:26|| Front Page Top

#10 US pollution control standards are higher than the Kyoto protocols. Euros are socialists first, dhimms second, environmentalists third. Chirac should move to Iran to be close to his masters.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-02-01 06:34|| 2007-02-01 06:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Jacques Chirac favors us again with his unique wisdom: Chirac retracts remark on nuclear-armed Iran
French President Jacques Chirac has told US and French journalists that a nuclear-armed Iran would not be "very dangerous", but later retracted his comments, according to reports published Thursday. "Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well that's not very dangerous," Chirac said in the interview on Monday to the New York Times, the Paris-based International Herald Tribune and the French weekly Nouvel Observateur. "Where would Iran drop this bomb ? On Israel ?" he asked. "It would not have gone off 200 meters into the atmosphere before Tehran would be razed to the ground," Chirac was quoted as saying by the three publications.

The French president called back the journalists to the Elysee Palace on Tuesday and asserted that he was retracting the statement. "I should have paid better attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record," Chirac was quoted by the IHT as saying. "It was an oversimplification...It is a formulation that I am taking back," the Nouvel Observateur quoted him as saying.

Posted by ed 2007-02-01 07:04|| 2007-02-01 07:04|| Front Page Top

#12 And why do these clowns have a seat on the UN Security Council and not Japan? Just asking.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-01 07:46|| 2007-02-01 07:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Fuck him. We are already gonna get taxed with the Democrats in office....

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-02-01 08:15|| 2007-02-01 08:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Have we been down this road before, Chirac? Are you feeling lucky? Well, are you punk?
I'll break your mantle piece.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-02-01 09:47|| 2007-02-01 09:47|| Front Page Top

#15 LOL! Pull the trigger, Shiraq! I double-dog dare ya. I can do without whine and cheese, but can France do w/o US products? I think not, lol!

Posted by BA 2007-02-01 09:51|| 2007-02-01 09:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Of course, this tax would affect imports from China, too, and since the EU (especially France) is doing all it can to suck up to the Chinese, I don't see this going anywhere. A UN enviro organization, on the other hand, I could see coming about. God save us from EUro mandarins.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-02-01 09:52|| 2007-02-01 09:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Of course this is just a power grab.

There is no proveable human input to the minor global warming that has occurred since about the 1850 end of the Little Ice Age. (Gee after an ice age it got warmer, who'd a thunk it)

Glacier? What glacier? I ain't seen no glacier.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-02-01 10:39|| 2007-02-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#18 Why don't they get it ? The SUN heats up the earth and all the other planets in a cycling fashion. We had been in the cooler part of that cycle, and now we are going into the warmer part. There is not a single thing that can be done within our abilities to avoid that.
We cannot shade the earth. We cannot move the earth. What we can do is sell our shore house while the going price is still high.

Posted by wxjames 2007-02-01 10:46|| 2007-02-01 10:46|| Front Page Top

#19 And why do these clowns have a seat on the UN Security Council and not Japan? Just asking.

One of the many mistakes arising from treating France as an Allied power in WWII. They spent the war collaborating and sucked back their vampiric empire afterwards. My granddad used to say we should have let the Germans deal with them for a few more years.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-01 11:41|| 2007-02-01 11:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Excuse me, Jacques. Did you say something?

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-01 11:47|| 2007-02-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#21 The next time there is a war in Europe, the looser gets France.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-02-01 12:21|| 2007-02-01 12:21|| Front Page Top

#22
This really translates as the Frog Economy sux, so they've gotta try and tax-down the US economy.

BTW doesn't this belong in "Todays Idiot"

Posted by macofromoc 2007-02-01 12:36|| 2007-02-01 12:36|| Front Page Top

#23 Woooha. With the Dimmicrats semi in power france might get away with this.

Lest we forget it was Chirac that said Iran having a nuclear bomb is no big deal. This coming from a man who doesn't seem to mind Paris burning.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-01 14:19|| 2007-02-01 14:19|| Front Page Top

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