{"id":11348,"date":"2018-12-05T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2018-12-05T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:25:01","slug":"french-retreat-on-fuel-tax-increase-worries-delegates-to-climate-change-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/french-retreat-on-fuel-tax-increase-worries-delegates-to-climate-change-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"French retreat on fuel tax increase worries delegates to climate change conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFILE – A demonstrator waves the French flag onto a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue during a demonstration against the rising of the fuel taxes, Nov. 24, 2018 in Paris<\/em><\/h6>\n
Image source: VOA, “Macron Feels Diesel Tax Anger After Paris ‘Battle Scenes'” – https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/macron-feels-diesel-tax-anger-after-paris-battle-scenes-\/4674411.html<\/a><\/h6>\n

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American Thinker<\/strong>
\nby Rick Moran
\n1\/5\/2018<\/h3>\n

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At climate change talks in Katowice, Poland, there is a lot of worried talk about the revolt by the French people over President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax increase.\u00a0\u00a0The tax increase was a large part of Macron’s effort to combat global warming, and the elites in Poland are concerned that voters in other E.U. countries will think protesting their government’s trying to save the planet on their backs isn’t such a good idea.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“The way forward is not easy, is not straightforward,” European Commission Vice-President Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d said at the talks in Katowice.\u00a0\u00a0“In the end it will be the people’s decision how much they’re ready to change the way they behave, how they live.”<\/p>\n

France’s troubles were seized upon by climate skeptics to underline the unpopularity of costly decarbonization efforts.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump\u00a0tweeted<\/a>: “The Paris Agreement is fatally flawed because it raises the price of energy for responsible countries while whitewashing some of the worst polluters …\u00a0in the world.\u00a0\u00a0I want clean air and clean water and have been making great strides in improving America’s environment.\u00a0\u00a0But American taxpayers \u2013 and American workers \u2013 shouldn’t pay to clean up others countries’ pollution.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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