US politicians are watching their counterparts in the UK and taking some of their ideas and puting them into law here.
Now if we can just get the US voters to do likewise
Most people think government charges levied on the grounds that they help the environment are really just ways of boosting the Treasury’s coffers, it suggested.
Two in three people think that green causes have been cynically hijacked as a pretext for raising taxes.
The findings are a blow to green campaigners who believe the future depends on using high taxes and charges to encourage people to stop behaving in ways they believe are destructive.
You can only let yourself be bent over the barrel so often before you start noticing the splinters.