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one reason for the recent riots in Paris was because people were protesting against a tax hike on gasoline that Macron introduced in hopes of tipping the balance away from fossil fuels and towards greener solutions. Nobody cared about the big picture,
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I’m not quite with you. An energy tax needs to be on a sliding scale. I’m presently bordering on the poverty line myself and a tax that wasn’t going to allow me to heat my home ain’t gonna work me neither. We all gotta pitch in but as a poor person I’m already starting with a smaller carbon footprint. I only cool one room. No central air. No lawn. No car at the moment. Like I’m doing my part whether I want to or not. The electricity here comes mostly from coal. Obviously I don’t like coal but a regressive tax on it that would up my power bill - just no ****ing way. I’m with the frogs on that one. They need to GIVE me solar. Free. You want to stop the fossil fuel consumption? Send the Sunshine State over and put some solar panels I can’t afford on this dump.