There's no alternative to diesel for shipping vessels at the moment so the only thing this does is increasing prices for EU consumers and businesses.

It's like what triggered the Yellow Vests protests in France: a tax on diesel when people have no alternative. It seems that nothing was learnt from that.

A constructive approach would be to invest in developing alternatives then you can tax away to hasten change.

Article says that Europe will look either like a genius or a madhouse depending how this goes... well, track record isn't too good.