Imagine trying to fly American Airlines from Frankfurt to Chicago and being delayed because AA needs to purchase some carbon “Allowances” from easyJet. Or, your British Airways flight from London to Beijing is canceled because construction of a solar

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Yup. Under the rubric of evironmental resposibility and carbon neutrality, everyone flying to Europe will eventually be funding the bloated and useless bureaucracy.

The European Union on Tuesday warned Chinese and Indian airlines that they risked "penalties" for defying the bloc's emission trading scheme by refusing to state how much carbon dioxide (CO2) they produced last year. India and China are among the nations opposed to the EU extending its emission trading scheme (ETS) to aviation. Companies from countries such as the US and Russia, which also oppose the ETS extension, all complied with the requirement, while there was "systematic non-reporting" from Chinese and Indian airlines, the European Commission said in a statement. As part of the ETS rules, airlines were meant to report to national authorities in the EU countries in which they operate on how much CO2 they produced last year. Starting this year, the bloc is forcing foreign airlines serving EU destinations to stock up on CO2 permits.