{"id":426102,"date":"2010-03-13T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-3554962545724241723"},"modified":"2010-03-13T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:47:19","slug":"france-has-a-carbon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/426102","title":{"rendered":"France has a carbon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew? France now has a carbon tax:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/opinion\/westview\/the-year-it-didnt-happen.html\">The year it didn&#8217;t happen &#8211; Winnipeg Free Press &#8211; Gwynne Dyer<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/opinion\/westview\/the-year-it-didnt-happen.html\"><\/a>&#8230; France became the largest economy to impose a carbon tax on individuals and businesses using coal, gas or oil, with the explicit intention of changing people&#8217;s patterns of energy use. The tax is US$24 per tonne of emissions now, but it will rise over the years&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>Go France!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the first time I can remember France leading on anything. It certainly didn&#8217;t get much coverage in the US, though that&#8217;s hardly surprising. What could be less popular in America than global warming + taxes + France?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Happily, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GwynneDyer\/\">Gwynne Dyer posts his article notices on Twitter<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2010\/01\/my-gwynne-dyer-feed-at-last.html\">see also<\/a>) so I look forward to hearing more news that&#8217;s forbidden in America.<br \/>&#8212;<br \/><small><a href=\"feed:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/public\/atom\/user\/06457543619879090746\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">My Google Reader Shared items (feed)<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-3554962545724241723?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew? France now has a carbon tax: The year it didn&#8217;t happen &#8211; Winnipeg Free Press &#8211; Gwynne Dyer &#8230; France became the largest economy to impose a carbon tax on individuals and businesses using coal, gas or oil, with the explicit intention of changing people&#8217;s patterns of energy use. The tax is US$24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}