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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is fine to defend and safeguard the environment, but I should like to know just how far we want to go. The cost of energy products has reached record levels in many countries, like Italy, where filling up a car has become astronomically expensive.
The solution proposed would undoubtedly lead to further increases in fuel and energy costs, and the people who would have to pay would be the usual ones, the people for whom a vehicle is essential for working and getting about. I do not believe that the European Union can allow such a situation to happen, as it would bring many strategic areas of production to their knees and lead to a rise in energy and fuel bills.
In Italy, the Monti government is also thinking of introducing a nationwide ‘carbon tax’. One blow leads to another and if we do this, citizens and businesses will go under in the name of a false and extreme environmentalism which, in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, is just a way of raising money indiscriminately."@en1
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