Groa

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2...60,00.html

Curious to know if ytrok supports Europeans killing their own by imposing high taxes on energy that could save them.

sontos2244

When everything gets taxed like crazy middle class people suffer the most since it causes them to not be able to afford things other than food, water, and a piece of shit house and cannot afford air conditioning or the energy to run it so they die of heat, it's that simple.

Heh thousand's die because they lack a fucking air conditioning, that is a joke to me....less US Soldiers died in the Iraqi war that euro's opposed, but then they turn around put like 500% tax on everything so a regular person cannot afford even a ghetto ass piece of crap air conditioning unit and thousands die cause it's too hot for a couple days, lol.

Kein Bojangles

Man, I was in Italy for the last two weeks, and it was *brutal*. Maybe not as bad as some other places, but all you had to do was step outside and you started sweating like a pig. We had to change clothes three times a day it got so bad.

Anterak

Been 4 months, with... 1hour and 20 mins of rain for this period(at least where I live).

And dieing people aren't the "middle class that can't afford AC", more old people living in places where normal avg temperature is 26/27° celsius (you'll make the conversion ) and got for 1 full month an avg of 38/39° (north of France).

Why buy AC if you live somewhere you won't need 10 years but 1? Oh yes the "high tax", of course!

Next?

kinu

Average of people that died to it were 65+. Most houses don't have AC here and its not because of taxs, its because its useless 99% of the time. Just for the record the last time a heatwave happened it was in 76, I was't even born. Why would I buy something I ll need 3x times in my life?

Cluesless tards like usual.


Edit: After reading that article, I thought I d add one thing. Europe actually tries to be a bit more carefull about the planet unlike the usa which don't give a shit. Just the cars poluate much less and consume average 2/3x less gas than in the usa. Relatively speaking, france poluate 4X less than USA. By that I mean if france was as big as the USA it would poluate 4x less. Naturally with our size the difference is much bigger than that.

Palarran

Most of the US is more decentralized and spread out than most of Europe, I think. People here need to travel more to get the same things done, and mass transit isn't always a viable option in many places due to the layout. It's not just people's attitudes but also some old design decisions (which in turn influence people's attitudes) that are to blame.

JammanDarkdaddy

One of the reasons for high energy tax in Europe is to make our energy consumption more efficient.
It means there is less pollution and more to go around. And it hardly effects the middle class, just teaches us to turn off uneccessary lights or not filll the kettle to the top every time we make a brew.
In most parts of mainland Europe, it very rarely gets hot enough to warrant kitting out every house with air conditioning. So lowering energy tax would be disastrous. Usually a fan will do the job.

Lleauric

On the plus side Kinu..

I hear France is gonna produce some REALLY kick ass wines this year from the heat..

My question is..

Can ya hook a brother up??

And yes Im serious.. I want to pay you to ship me some damn wine..

Anterak

Better wine (lots of sun), but less production (not enough rain), Order Now!! :smokin

Ibudin

Don't blame us SUV driving pigs for your heat wave crisis..blame your exceptional health care system that europeans are so proud of.



www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1027219,00.html



Ibudin