Them's fightin' words around my airstrip.....
Them's fightin' words 'round my industry (airplane manufacturer, airlines)....
Seriously, airlines are struggling with reduced loads due to the economic slowdown and now they are going to be taxed even more by having to track emissions and report them regularly? A couple airlines I work with have had to hire another engineer (read: added cost) just to measure, calculate and report emissions for the EU. That cost will get passed on to consumers.
Hey wait! I guess that's one of these "green jobs" they're talking about!
I predict a global driven regime that will track your activities and tax you increasingly for every flight maybe eventually by the mile, by the kind of car you drive, by the number of cars you own, by the square footage and “energy features” of your house, by your monitored energy use, by the acreage of your farm...etc etc etc..maybe even by the foods (meat) you buy
the “tax” of course to go to the global carbon traders