Business and industry owners seem keen to scrap a planned tax on heating oil and replace it with a measure similar to the one used for vehicle fuels. In an effort to reduce carbon dioxide production and fight against global warming, the federal government was planning to launch a 9-cent tax per liter of heating oil. On the other hand, since the price of petrol has begun to soar, certain right-leaning political parties have started voicing serious qualms about the idea of the new tax. Left-leaning political parties and environmental groups denounced the new proposition as completely insufficient to curb CO2 emissions. Rudolf Steiner, parliamentarian of canton of Soleur’s Radical Party, convinced that it would only take a tax of about 1.6 cents per liter of heating oil to obtain the reduction in CO2 emissions wanted by the government.

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