wayneL
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No, if anything it applies to a greater extent to the left. I call the far left the dumb left. They are excellent at parrotting, the far right though have the same skill and both are extremely annoying to talk to.
The point is if you are going to make adds to influence opinion, choose the right people!!! No point in preaching to the converted.
But Mr Windsor, a member of the committee, cast doubt over Labor's carbon plans this morning, saying his vote could be determined by the extent to which the rest of the world had acted.
“Why should we do something when the rest of the world is doing nothing?” he said.
Mr Windsor said his vote would depend on the outcome of a Productivity Commission report which will set out the effective carbon price in economies across the world.
EDIT: That's July 1 this year.The following was raised on the ABC's Insiders program yesterday in that the Productivity Commission report referred to would not be available until after July 1 2012, the proposed start date of the carbon tax.
In any comparison, the action we are currently taking in the absense of a carbon tax (solar panels for example) is something Tony Windsor needs to take into account.Other countries are acting though, albeit to various degrees.
"I didn't appear on it because I knew that I would be a front page of lies in the Rupert Murdoch press here," he said in Sydney today.
"So there was no way I would destroy my name that way. I was gutless, I didn't stand up for the truth."
Mr Smith said he did not regret not appearing in the ad.
"By being gutless it meant I wasn't attacked," he said at the launch today of his new book, Dick Smith's Population Crisis.
"They would have done the same to me as they would to Cate Blanchett. Because I'm wealthy, they would say I shouldn't talk because it could affect pensioners.
"I'm not going to be lied to by people who are trying to make money out of me, I'm not that stupid."
When asked if he thought that Blanchett was stupid for taking part in the campaign, he said she was an "iconic Australian who said the right thing because she's concerned about our children".
"Most of you in the media are either too stupid to realise it or you don't care about children."
Here is another one of those rich left wing looney do nothing Australians at it........
I was gutless over climate ads: Dick Smith
What would Dick know
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/c...-dick-smith-20110530-1fbwk.html#ixzz1No9LDVV7
Tricky Dicky is launching a book.
"By being gutless it meant I wasn't attacked," he said at the launch today of his new book, Dick Smith's Population Crisis.
Which other countries have a carbon tax?
Which other countries have a carbon tax?
Finland: introduced the world’s first carbon tax in 1990. Initially the tax exempted few industries and fuels.
In 2010 Finland’s price on carbon was €20 per tonne of CO2. Natural gas has a reduced tax rate, while peat was exempted between 2005-2010.
Taxation of liquid fuels and coal takes account of both their energy content and carbon dioxide emissions, and also emissions into the local environment that have adverse health effects.
The Netherlands: the Netherlands levies a general fuel tax on all fossil fuels. Fuels used as raw materials are not subject to the tax. Tax rates are based on both the energy and carbon contents of fuels.
Sweden: in 1991 Sweden enacted a carbon tax.
With Sweden raising prices on fossil fuels since enacting the carbon tax, it cut its carbon pollution by 9 per cent between 1990 and 2006.
India: a levy on coal producers was introduced in 2010. India expected to raise $535 million from the tax, the first measure used by the subcontinent to reduce companies’ use of fossil fuels.
Norway: in 1991 Norway introduced a tax on carbon. However its carbon emissions increased by 43m per cent per capita between 1991 and 2008.
Denmark: enacted in 1992, Denmark’s carbon tax applies to all energy users, which includes the industrial sector. But industrial companies are taxed differently depending on the process the energy is used for, and whether or not the company has entered into a voluntary agreement to apply energy efficiency measures.
Denmark’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions were nearly 15% lower in 2005 than in 1990.
Switzerland: a carbon incentive tax was introduced in Switzerland in 2008. It includes all fossil fuels, unless they are used for energy. Swiss companies can be exempt from the tax if they participate in the country’s emissions trading system.
Overall, greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland remained stable between 1990 and 2007.
Ireland: a tax on oil and gas came into effect in 2010. It was estimated to add around €43 to filling a 1000 litre oil tank and €41 to the average annual gas bill.
Costa Rica: in 1997 Costa Rica enacted a tax on carbon pollution, set at 3.5 per cent of the market value of fossil fuels. The revenue raised from this goes into a national forest fund which pays indigenous communities for protecting the forests around them.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1492651/At-a-glance:-Carbon-taxes-around-the-world
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