What's a politician like NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's motivation for shoving a "carbon tax" down your throat? Easy. He's seen what it's done for the city of London. Not for the people of the city. No. But for the governing apparatus. It's called empire building.
As of 27 Oct 2008, the city of London will levy £25 *per day* in carbon duties if you drive something like a pickup truck into the city. That and other so-called 'green' levies amount to an expansion of the London municipal coffers by close to a half-billion US$ a year. What do they do with that money? Well, pretty much anything they want. (See this post for a breakdown)
London's example, of course, now creates an imperative, and marketing plan, for every civic manager in the world to pursue this fresh, fertile revenue stream; you're irresponsible to your charter - and mankind - if you don't. To do with pretty much as you please. All generated from uninformed hysteria over an unproven theory rampantly marketed by every half-educated half-wit on the planet to the delight of the true manipulators.
The IPCC's Anthropogenic Global Warming is the greatest Multi-Level Marketing scheme ever devised.
Socialism has arrived and it is dressed in green.
