Euronews reported this week it has received a leaked document that shows Hungary is proposing delaying taxes on airline and maritime fuel until mid-century. Currently, diesel, gasoline, and electricity used for rail and road vehicles is “heavily taxed,” according to Euronews. But airlines and marine vessels, from fishing boats to cruise ships, pay no fuel taxes. The policy is seen as a means of stimulating air travel, but environmentalists find the measure counter to Europe’s commitment to green energy.
And who will pay those taxes? Not the airlines, but its customers. “Go woke, go broke”. Belief in the green myths of climate change and limited resources (all soundly debunked years ago) can only lead to higher prices, higher unemployment, and more human misery. Green policies are already destroying Europe. The world’s largest BMW plant is in South Carolina, not Bavaria, where electricity costs 4x that in South Carolina. Thanks to nuclear and dino-fuel, aka coal and natural gas.
Not really yet, but, continuing with some policies like this one, that country surely goes to act just like an Iran in Europe. The one difference is that such a country could be excluded from the UE, contrary to Iran, that couldn’t be excluded. From what?