HNewsWire: Do you want to pay a carbon tax To Satan Soldiers every time you switch on your heater? What about every time you fill up your car’s petrol tank? Surprisingly, this will soon be the norm in Europe. When I initially heard that the EU intended to levy direct carbon taxes on people, I assumed it was just another bogus Internet story. However, it is not a fake rumor. It is being covered in European news outlets, and you can learn more about it on the European Parliament’s official website. Governments in the European Union have agreed to the world’s first big carbon border tax as part of an update of the bloc’s centerpiece carbon market, which seeks to make its economy carbon-neutral by 2050. After reaching a temporary agreement earlier in the week, EU ministers confirmed elements of the...
