“Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’”

Control by Carbon. It will hit Great Britain first:

Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say.

The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.

Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.

Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven’t used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company.

The government decides how much “carbon” you are allowed, and if you exceed the limit, you pay. Is this registering with you yet?

This isn’t the first time this idea has been floated out there. In November of last year, the same thing was offered up for consideration:

Every person in Britain would be given a “carbon limit” under radical government plans to limit emissions, it was announced today.

Everybody could be issued with a “carbon credit card” which they would swipe when buying petrol, paying their utility bills, purchasing food, or travelling.

People with lifestyles that are damaging to the environment - such as frequent fliers, motorists who drive gas-guzzling vehicles or people who live in large homes with poor insulation - would have to buy more carbon credits from greener individuals.

Like I wrote back in January:

How long before that type of idea finds a foothold in America’s governing body? It would start on the state level maybe, a few states try it out like a fresh pair of shackles. Then the federal government likes what it sees and makes it national. Rather than try to regulate this or restrict that, they cover all the bases with, ironically, a little piece of plastic. Now, you can’t buy everything you wanted like before without it costing you. Your freedom is no more. You have become a part of the collective.

Instead of “Give me liberty or give me death,” we have “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

Common good dressed in green, that is.

While you are considering that, take a look at these:

• Carbon Dioxide is not the primary cause of global warming (PDF) (Allan M.R. MacRae, B.Sc., M.Eng.)
• Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming (PDF) (David Evans, B.Sc. Physics, M.S. Statistics, Ph.D. Engineering)
• CO2: The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time (PDF) (Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D. Ph.D. D.Sc.)
• The Acquittal of Carbon Dioxide (Jeffrey A. Glassman, Ph.D. Applied Physicist and Engineer)
• The Lynching of Carbon Dioxide - The Innocent Source of Life (PDF) (Martin Hertzberg, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)

There are more articles like this here. This is a great resource for the global warming skeptic.