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"Energy taxation is a very delicate issue. This is because the prices of other products depend on the price of energy and without an appropriate quantity of energy at a reasonable price, economies will, at a stroke, cease to be competitive. For this reason I am sceptical of ideas for additional taxes on energy, especially where this is being done in the name of climate policy. Of course it is important, but it is not as important as a sensible energy policy. We cannot permit a situation to occur where by 2018 there is a six-fold increase in tax on a fuel that is used to create 30% of the EU’s energy. This fuel is of course coal – the object of attacks by many Members of this Parliament.
In light of the fact that the amendments tabled by myself and a group of 40 Members, proposing an optional emissions component, were rejected, I decided that I would vote against this directive. I did this despite the fact that the principle of proportionality, a principle that was unfavourable for all users of diesel-fuelled vehicles, was defeated by the votes of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats). This was not, however, sufficient to make this directive beneficial for Poland and its population."@en1
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