Lies and doublespeak!!!
CONSUMERS will be slugged with price rises on everyday items like milk, cheese, chocolate and pizzas as the carbon tax puts the squeeze on retailers and producers.
Even plane tickets and phone bills won't be spared when the Gillard Government's greenhouse emissions scheme comes into effect as early as July 2012.
Governments of both sides have squandered a fair portion of our tax dollars in this abomination.I don't blame the likes of Smurf or Dr Zacchary for getting on board, the fault lies with the ALP, state and federal ('friend of the worker party') for designing such a ridiculously inequitable scheme, and administering it so abominably.
To the above, I'll add security of supply.Which leaves... gas!
Is this the Greens hitting the panic button ?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...arbon-tax-debate/story-e6frg6xf-1226076922748
Yep, good point. Ditto the Cate Blanchett commercial where we are urged to "say yes".Why are they trying to sell this to the public? I thought Gillard was going to bring it in regardless of the polls against it.
Exactly. My fear is that we will start to experience blackouts and brownouts.Surely carbon tax shouldn't be brought in until reliable and affordable energy alternatives are readily available to the masses so they have a choice of energy supply. But to just make the only thing we have unaffordable to working familes (the ones who probably won't get compensation) is a stupid thing to do, imo.
CONTRARY to repeated assertions by the Prime Minister, the Productivity Commission did not endorse an economy-wide emissions trading scheme. Rather, its recently released report on carbon emissions policies models an ETS that applies only to the electricity sector and excludes all trade-exposed industries.
There's another big flaw in the modelling...
So, we're going to switch electricity generation to gas. Now what do you think that is going to do to the price of gas as it leads to rapid depletion of SE Australia reserves and competition (with exports) for gas from northern Australia?
Get set for import parity gas pricing as we have with petrol. Those over a certain age will remember rather well what that means in terms of price, and it's the likely outcome with gas too once you factor in a doubling or trebling of counsumption and a situation where all known reserves are either committed to exports or local consumption (a situation which is very rapidly emerging by the way - we're hell bent on getting the stuff out of the ground as fast as we can it seems).
You don't just end up paying the extra cost of gas-fired power based on current gas prices. No, you end up paying that based on a much higher gas price and also paying more for all other uses of gas as well.
This isn't going to be cheap, and that's without even mentioning the cost of the tax itself. What we're talking about here, is adding real costs to the economy. Switching away from cheap resources (coal), in favour of more expensive resources (gas), which will itself rise in price given that as is a realatively limited resource.
I doubt that many have any real grasp of this and certainly not politicians. And I'll throw in another one - what are we going to be using for automotive fuel 15 years from now?
Good luck if you think we'll still be able to cheaply import oil once China etc is able to buy not just some, but the entire production of the Middle East producers. With a bit of luck they might let us have some - but it won't likely be cheap.
Electric cars? Maybe someday, but we're not going to have millions of those on the roads in that timeframe.
Biofuels? Do the maths - it's a supplement not a replacement beyond the point of using agricultural wastes. The food you eat is equivalent to 2 litres of petrol a week - we're not going to grow a tank full a week for every car anytime soon.
Which leaves... gas! Yep, gas! You know, that stuff we're busy selling offshore as quickly as we can whilst planning to use what remains to generate electricity. Nobody seems to have thought about the future need to run vehicles on the stuff...
From the above link:Are the covers about to get thrown off the bed ?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/17/3246733.htm
Mr Combet reaffirmed the Government's support for industry assistance, saying it was determined to ensure "strong protection and support for jobs" during the transition to clean energy.
"As a Labor Government we will always push hard to support jobs and families, as was the Government's approach during the global financial crisis, and this will always be a key focus for us in any public policy deliberations," Mr Combet said in a statement
From the above link:
This focus seems to be making it clear to the Greens that the government will only go so far to accommodate them.
I've raised the possibility before, that it could be posssible the government is now regretting the decision to introduce a carbon tax, given the massive electorate backlash against it, so could an impasse with the Greens which would prevent the legislation happening, actually be their way of wriggling out yet saving face by blaming the Greens and their 'extremist' demands?
Well that would really blow up the fragile relationship that holds the minority government together.
For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:
APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Not sure if this has been posted in here before but the link below shows the resignation letter of Prof. E. H. Lewis.
Professor Emiritus Hal Lewis Resigns from American Physical Society
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?