Apropos of Chris Horner’s post below, CCNet’s Benny Peiser has the following today from the Continent:

EU INDUSTRY COMMISSIONER WARNS OF “ECO-DICTORSHIP” Focus Magazin, 11 May 2008 EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen is dead against the current plans by the European Commission to reduce CO2 emissions for new cars. He is warning against rules that interfere in the private life of citizens. Verheugen warned against patronizing citizens with ever more climate laws and regulations. “I watch with growing uneasiness how legislators constantly issue new regulations on all levels that intrude the private sphere,” he told a newspaper.“We are approaching a state which I would call lifestyle-regulation” Verheugen said. He did not wish to live in a society where people would be prescribed how they would have to live in their own four walls. Already people were talking about an “eco-dictatorship”: “We shouldn’t put off citizens,” he warned.