So_Cynical
The Contrarian Averager
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Brilliant... that's what its all about, forcing industry and individuals to seek alternatives.
Policy at work.
Personally, I'll just be firing up the old Saxon (wood burner) and that will keep me warm without going broke.
You are just so utterly selfish. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Australia already finding it impossible to pay their electricity accounts. But hey, that's just fine by you - just whack a bit more on to them. You can afford it so sod everyone else.Brilliant... that's what its all about, forcing industry and individuals to seek alternatives.
Policy at work.
Brilliant... that's what its all about, forcing industry and individuals to seek alternatives.
Policy at work.
To what end?
To the end of reducing consumption of non renewable resources.
Does anyone deny there is a lot of wasted consumption of power and fuel in this country ? By paying more care about how we use power and fuel we can reduce our consumption, but we won't if power is cheap.
Also, the development of power generating plants has stagnated because private enterprise won't invest without guarantees of no competition, state governments haven't got the money because they have been stressed providing other services for the great influx of migrants that Howard and Rudd let in, and Costello put all the proceeds from the Telstra sale into a slush fund for retired public servants.
Therefore, power generation infrastructure has to be financed, and part of that finance is coming from the carbon tax. The alternative is governments borrowing lots of money to build infrastructure, and we don't like Government debt do we ?
A noble end... I think?
2/Shouldn't it not merely transfer consumption overseas, which this achieves very efficiently?
LOL it was supposed to be a thin veil of reducing carbon. So we now stupidly support the individual burning wood and coal to help the environmentBrilliant... that's what its all about, forcing industry and individuals to seek alternatives.
Policy at work.
You are just so utterly selfish. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Australia already finding it impossible to pay their electricity accounts. But hey, that's just fine by you - just whack a bit more on to them. You can afford it so sod everyone else.
And all for nothing.
Just sickening.
Well the news is finally out in public. A whopping 26% rise in electricity prices here in Tas on the 1st of July with much of it due to the carbon tax. And, as we're all being told, further rises will come as the tax forces up both the actual cost of generation and also taxes it.
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/03/29/313691_tasmania-news.htmlSorry to post this again but is this for real ? where was it reported ?
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/03/29/313691_tasmania-news.html
Of that, about 6% is cited as being due to the carbon tax, but does that include the indirect costs such as the impact of the carbon tax on administration and the GST ?
In Queensland, the direct impact of the carbon tax is equivelent to a 12% increase in electricity prices.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8444255
Yes. There are plenty of unscrupulous people out there who will see this as a marvellous opportunity to price gouge.Just wait for this stuff up, not only that but every business in AU will be upping their prices and blaming the carbon tax.
What, actually, is this carbon tax going to achieve, Rumpole?
Investment in power generation infrastructure Julia, which as I have previously pointed out was not done by State governments or the Howard government when they had plenty of cash after the Telstra sale.
You want cheap electricity , but are not prepared to pay for the infrastructure that delivers it. Where else would the money come from to do this ?
You want cheap electricity , but are not prepared to pay for the infrastructure that delivers it. Where else would the money come from to do this ?
Yeah, but your mob is opposed to coal fired power stations and we certainly won't have affordable alternative energy in this decade. So what is this infrastructure you are talking about?
Remember the Carbon Tax?It is a tax on affordable power.
Yeah, but your mob is opposed to coal fired power stations and we certainly won't have affordable alternative energy in this decade. So what is this infrastructure you are talking about?
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