Wednesday, January 23, 2008  Climate goals to cost European euro
3 a week   When MEP's dream, are they Capetian or Carolingian?
Capetian, methinks.  I've always liked the Carolingians better,
they seemed more human-  Charles II, the Bald Louis II, the
Stammerer Charles, the Fat Charles III, the Simple Along the
lines of the Brit's Aethelred II, the Unready (my fav. royal
nickname)  Anyhoo, from the Economic Times (India):  Europeans
were asked on Wednesday to pay an extra euro3 (US$4.35) a week
as part of tough new measures to fight global warming, which EU
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said was a small price
to pay to help slow down climate change.  The European Union
plans to slash greenhouse gases by a fifth by 2020, eventually
imposing euro 50 billion (US$72.47 billion) a year in costs on
major polluters and rapidly scaling up how much energy it draws
from more expensive, alternative sources such as windmills,
solar panels and energy crops.  But Barroso bowed to industry
worries that extra cost