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"en.20080131.22.4-221"2
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Research results indicate that emissions of greenhouse gases caused by man are contributing to rapid climate change. We therefore support the main conclusion that all countries must take comprehensive measures to reduce these emissions and that the EU countries must take the lead.
At the same time we object to the tendency of both the Commission and Parliament’s rapporteurs always to exploit great challenges in order to centralise political power and create an EU without freedom and dynamism.
The EU’s role in energy policy should be limited to:
setting emission targets for each country and then leaving it to those countries and the market to attain the targets in free competition
internalising emission costs by pricing emission rights at sufficiently high levels. (Emissions will then be automatically taken into account in the billions of economic decisions taken every day around the world by households and businesses. Then households will of their own accord choose energy-saving light bulbs, car manufacturers will produce vehicles with low fuel consumption and property developers will build passive houses. It will then pay to carry out R&D in the field.)
allocating money for research and legislating on product labelling.
EU politicians must not regulate in detail. No one knows at present how best to plan this gigantic transformation. We therefore oppose such things as bans on patio heaters and tax concessions for building demolitions.
We have voted ‘no’ in order thereby to encourage a rethink of the EU’s energy policy."@en1
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