Instead of quietly dropping his stupid evil idea for "Carbon Credits" it looks like David Miliband is coming up with the daft totalitarian rubbish that passes for NuLabour "strategic thinking", which was once the preserve of David "Mastermind" Blunkett.
Miliband plans carbon trading 'credit cards' for everyonePatrick Wintour
Monday December 11, 2006
The GuardianEvery citizen would be issued with a carbon "credit card" - to be swiped every time they bought petrol, paid an energy utility bill or booked an airline ticket - under a nationwide carbon rationing scheme that could come into operation within five years, according to a feasibility study commissioned by the environment secretary, David Miliband, and published today.
In an interview with the Guardian Mr Miliband said the idea of individual carbon allowances had "a simplicity and beauty that would reward carbon thrift".
He acknowledged the proposal faced technical difficulties, but said ministers needed to seek ways of overcoming them.
Who is going to pay for the army of Soviet GOSPLAN style bureacrats who will have to assign a "carbon ration" to every individual manufactured item and service, and to administer the individual means tested, intrusive personal carbon rationing system ?
Since nobody is willing to pay for this voluntarily, then it will require a Soviet style police state to try to enforce it
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