... by the French. Ol' Nicky Sarkozy wanted to put a tax on using fossil fuels & the like because ...
Promoting his new green credentials last month in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference, Mr Sarkozy said: "This carbon tax has one objective – to force you to change your behaviour toward fossil fuels. Without fiscal pressure like this, nothing will change and it will be our children who pay the price."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."