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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:14 am Post subject: Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre |
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Coming soon from a congress...(scratch that, congress is irrelevant anymore). Coming soon via edict from the Ministry of Environmental Protection...
Makes you wonder why we even bothered liberating the Dutch...
| Quote: | "Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where."
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
Nov 13 04:20 PM US/Eastern
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
"Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport ministry said in a statement.
Ownership and sales taxes, about a quarter of the cost of a new car, will be scrapped and replaced by the "price per kilometre" system aimed at cutting the Netherlands' carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent.
"Traffic jams will be halved and it helps the environment," the ministry said.
Dutch motorists driving a standard family saloon will be charged 3 euro cents per kilometre (seven US cents per mile) in 2012. That would increase to 6.7 cents (16 US cents per mile) in 2018, according to the proposed law.
Every vehicle type will have a base rate, which depends on its size, weight and carbon dioxide emissions.
Taxis, vehicles for the disabled, buses, motorcycles and classic cars will all be exempt.
"An alternative payment will be introduced for foreign vehicles," the ministry statement added.
The Dutch cabinet approved the road tax bill on Friday. It will need the backing of parliament before it becomes law.
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zinfella
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:38 am Post subject: Re: Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | Coming soon from a congress...(scratch that, congress is irrelevant anymore). Coming soon via edict from the Ministry of Environmental Protection...
Makes you wonder why we even bothered liberating the Dutch...
| Quote: | "Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where."
Netherlands to levy 'green' road tax by the kilometre
Nov 13 04:20 PM US/Eastern
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
"Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where. This data will be then be sent to a collection agency that will send out the bill," the transport ministry said in a statement.
Ownership and sales taxes, about a quarter of the cost of a new car, will be scrapped and replaced by the "price per kilometre" system aimed at cutting the Netherlands' carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent.
"Traffic jams will be halved and it helps the environment," the ministry said.
Dutch motorists driving a standard family saloon will be charged 3 euro cents per kilometre (seven US cents per mile) in 2012. That would increase to 6.7 cents (16 US cents per mile) in 2018, according to the proposed law.
Every vehicle type will have a base rate, which depends on its size, weight and carbon dioxide emissions.
Taxis, vehicles for the disabled, buses, motorcycles and classic cars will all be exempt.
"An alternative payment will be introduced for foreign vehicles," the ministry statement added.
The Dutch cabinet approved the road tax bill on Friday. It will need the backing of parliament before it becomes law.
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Not even The Twilight Zone had things this far out.
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TEWSPilot
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What's the difference between an empty beer can and a member of the Dutch Parliament?
...one is a hollow cylinder, and the other is a silly Hollander..... |
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Me#1You#10
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This arrived recently in my e-mail and I'm hopeful it's indicative of strengthening opposition to the MONSTER that has metamorphosed in the creation of this nightmarish agency...
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President Obama, White House Climate Czar Carol Browner, and their Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are not waiting for Congress to pass cap-and-trade.
The enormous grassroots reaction to the outrageous Waxman-Markey energy tax bill passing the U.S. House has slowed Senate progress to a crawl. While cap-and-trade remains a major threat (especially with new "tri-partisan" negotiations betweens Senators Graham, Kerry, and Lieberman), the biggest threat of huge new energy taxes and government controls right now comes not from legislation, but regulation.
Based on a legal theory originally conceived by Climate Czar Carol Browner in the late 1990s, Obama's EPA is moving ahead with greenhouse gases regulations under the 1970 Clean Air Act even though in 1970 global warming hadn't even been invented yet, and the doom-saying scientists were instead warning of an impending ice age!
Click here to help stop EPA's power grab!
Don't take my word for it. Even the 1970 Clean Air Act's original author, Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, who supports cap-and-trade, says the Obama Administration's latest move is a recipe for disaster:We are looking at the possibility of a glorious mess being visited upon this country. This is not what was intended by the Congress and by those of us who wrote the Clean Air Act. We are beginning to look at a wonderfully complex world, which has the potential for shutting down or slowing down virtually all industry and all economic activity and growth.
— Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) The 1970 Clean Air Act is such a bad vehicle to address greenhouse gases that EPA is attempting, illegally, to rewrite the law to suit its purposes. (Click here for details about the scheme) EPA wants to handpick which industries and carbon emitters it will regulate, instead of following the law as written. Not only is it illegal, but it's also ineffective, because state regulators and courts will still be able to use these regulations to shut down the whole U.S. economy.
Fortunately, the EPA is required by law to accept public comments on its proposal. Please take a moment to let them know what you think about their proposed regulatory power-grab.
Click here to comment with the EPA on this power grab!
With your help, we can stop the EPA power-grab, stop cap-and-trade, and move towards a more sensible energy policy.
Sincerely,
Phil Kerpen
Director of Policy
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TEWSPilot
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Something like the following might put the brakes on some of the runaway Leftist freight train legislation:
It's time for a 28th Amendment....pretty simply stated,
"When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty" -- Thomas Jefferson
Amendment 28
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States".
....here's a start:
On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan.
Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.
Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition. The process is very simple.
http://fleming.house.gov/index.html
Fill out name address, etc...click "YES" and submit!!
Senator Coburn and Congressman Fleming are both physicians.
Regardless of your political beliefs, it sure seems reasonable that Congress should have exactly the same medical coverage that they impose on the rest of us....and have to set THEIR thermostats to the same settings as we do and suffer all the other costs they are imposing on US. |
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