Nicolas Sarkozy, Al Gore and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, jointly announced their policy (their policy?!) for France at a ceremony last week which involved practically all French ministers, environmental associations, leaders of trades unions and business leaders.

The main thrust of the policy statement is the creation of a nonsense green economic driver, complete with its very own financial bubble.

Among the nonsense: special labels for “carbon-free” products, a “carbon tax” on all “carbon-heavy” products (does this mean inflation on pencils?), and a possible complete rewriting of the French tax code. In the future, all public projects will be adopted on their basis of their “carbon compatibility.” Good God.

Obviously on drugs, Sarkozy committed France to the building of no new nuclear power stations, instead opting for a guarantee that every euro spent on nuclear energy in the future, another euro would be spent on “renewable energies.”

It wasn’t all bad news, though. The French intend to replace 3 million lorries on their roads between 2012 and 2020 by the creation of 2000km of new TGV railway lines, with the old lines being held over for goods transport. They also intend to create an integrated network of rivers to be used for cargo transport, and coupled with the development of their sea ports, the intention is to have goods entering France via its ports and not across land.

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