At the expense of the environment? Hahahaha.

You can tax heating and vehicle fuel all you want, you're not helping the environment. People still have to heat their homes and get to work and the doctor and the grocery store.

That tax is wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich. It's a fascist tax. A tax on ignorance. A tax on tolerating tyranny.

"to then be squandered in one way or another"
...and who do you think benefits?

Flint, your article indicates that the tax will continue, however that it was due to rise in how much the electricity providers were paying. What they are freezing is the rises in how much the electricity providers will be paying, they will still be paying the current amount of tax on it. That is far from an end, it is simply a lack of further increase.

You really shouldn't vote when you're so oblivious to the repercussions of your actions. You're hurting people.

Gas (transport and heating) is a larger portion of poor people's budgets than it is of rich people's. By a HUGE margin. It hurts the poor more than the rich. It takes more from the poor, proportionately, than it does the rich. And, as you admit, government then squanders the money anyway.

But you just don't care that it's hurting the poor for no gain? They're not taxed enough already, at an over 50% rate? (not referring solely to income) That's not atrocious theft and tyranny already?

About about the "no gain" part. How do you justify hurting people for no gain? We could all replace our light bulbs with those dangerous ones that use less electricity and buy hybrid cars (ignoring the damage their batteries do to the environment or all the extra emissions used to produce these costly automobiles, let's pretend that doesn't impact "greenhouse gas" emissions) and there would be no measurable impact on global "greenhouse gasses."

China's building dozens of new coal plants every year, and they have 97 trillion people in their country alone. Virtually no developing countries give a damn about greenhouse gasses. And, as ridiculous taxes hurt the poor and make production more expensive in nations which wage war on industry (ie their middle classes), that industry and that production is exported to countries without such taxes.

Not only do you have no science behind your claim that man-produced "greenhouse gasses" are changing our climate, but the legislation you support does absolutely nothing to measurably alter "greenhouse gas" emissions.

But you don't care, it makes you feel good? I'm not seeing the rational explanation here. You're supporting fascism in the name of the planet with the sure knowledge that it doesn't help the planet. You're just supporting fascism for its own sake.