Carbon Trading: on in Australia, off in New Hampshire

I should have included a note about we Australians.
We are not stupid.
We are a very pragatic lot.
We understand that politicans are only human,
and that they, like the rest of us, are very fallable.
We vote for which ever lot is seen as the least worst bunch.
That’s why we got an unstable parliament, last time, with no major party able to rule in their own right.
Ops!
We must have been thinking about something else when we voted last time.
Public opinion polls are showing opposition now leading the government 54% to 46%.
Perhaps we are now playing closer attention.
The next election is not due for several more years, unless the present parliament becomes completely unworkable.
Here’s hoping!
(But not expecting over much).

Nothing to do with climate. Its for two reasons….
1) paying off the Greens and a couple of ‘loving my 15 minutes of fame’ independent members;
2) A cash grab.
This Government has spent more on a per capita basis than any ‘developed nation’ since the GFC. Sure, Australia technically avoided recession (a booming minerals industry would have something to say about that), but it came at an incredulous cost.
From having one of the largest per capita surpluses in the world in 2007 to having a massive debt (some $90Billion) just over 3 years later. Tens of billions wasted on unwanted buildings, a home insulation scheme disaster, green loan schemes, even cash cheques to voters in the mail! (yes I kid you not!!)
The opposition Coalition are way ahead on ‘economic management’ in perception and the polls. So the Government desparate to bridge the gap there, is having to find as much cash as possible, and quickly, to get the debt down. This is why we had that nonsensical proposal to tax mining companies profits double any other sector, and nearly double that of Canadian mining companies, which would have crippled the nation’s #1 industry.
This Government is addicted to spending. And a spending addiction is financed through debt. Debt is poison to the re-election chances of this Government (as in most countries, but especially Australia) and the Government knows that. As I said this has nothing to do with climate? (I guess whenever has it?!)

Oakeshot was always a drivelling fool,
But I thought, maybe, Tony Windsor had more integrity.. obvously not !!
I have sent him an email say as much.

Unfortunately, the press is terribly biaised and climate change is the reason given for any random event. For example climate change is quoted as a reason for freezing weather for the past few years in the USA and Europe, the floods in Europe and Australia, wild fires and cyclones etc. There is little else to read and most people probably accept this point of view. How can anybody without much understanding of science come to another point of view as there is little offering an alternative point of view?
If you look at the political system there are 150 members in the federal parliament. I don’t think there is any one with a degree in science; Bob Brown used to be a medico and I think Greg Combet (the minister) has some engineering qualification but as to the rest they are for the most lawyers, ex party officials, ex trade union officials, a few farmers and so on. So they are reliant upon advice of federal bureaucrats, and the various lobbying groups. So one has to looking at who will benefit from a carbon tax
and that seems to give some understanding as to the Prime Minister’s backflip. But, she has also renegged on nearly every other promise she made prior to the recent election. So her it will be interesting if she can hang-on to her job in the longterm, but for the moment she can do little wrong in the media whereas the leader of the opposition, TonyAbbott, has a much more difficult task.

Yep, IIRC, Gladstone area in QLD provides something like 80% of the world’s metalluric coal.

Ju-liar Gillard and her hypocritical Labor Party, aided and abetted by the Greens are trying to make us the laughing-stock of the world!
We have vast reserves of uranium and happily export it to the many countries enjoying the benefits of clean nuclear power, but the above troglodytes afraid of their own shadows won’t even consider building a nuclear power plant here.
We have vast supplies of coal supplying us power and happily export it to give us the standard of living we enjoy (but are rapidly losing) and the idiots above with their irrational hatred of fossil fuels, are trying to wreck the industry. Sadly, former Union hacks now MP’s have forgotten the workers who put them there and are actively involved in trying to destroy the jobs of those who depend on it.
We have many hydro-electric schemes giving us the cleanest, most renewable energy possible, with the opportunity to build several more dams to use the water which is currently wasted during the regular wet seasons, but no Government has the guts to stand up to the small minority of Greens who say “No Dams”!
We have vast reserves of natural gas but the Greens try and stop every proposed development of further fields.
Instead , this hotch -potch government of a big weak Labor dog being wagged by a tiny but noisy Green tail and propped up by three self-serving Independents, is throwing millions of dollars in wasteful subsidies at such schemes as wind, solar and hot rocks thermal technology, none of which can hope to provide the baseload power our growing nation will need.
Now they want to impose a costly carbon tax which will impact on almost every facet of our lives and place more strain on people already struggling with rising prices.
And for what? Allegedly to “stop climate change”, an impossible task under any circumstances, but worse when it’s based on the dodgy projections from inadequate climate models which have resulted in promotion of the hypothesis of AGW, arguably the greatest pseudo-scientific con ever perpetrated!
Truly we are currently in an asylum being run by the inmates !!
Hopefully common sense will prevail before they can do too much damage. There is certainly a rising tide of anger and frustration out there unlike any I have ever known before in my relatively long life.

SideShowBob says:
February 24, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Wow, really? I’m the one rocking back and forth? Interesting. How about we stick to the original discussion? You stated that we are at peak oil and we need to find alternatives NOW. I replied we are not and that we have plenty of oil untapped within our own borders here in the USA. Enough to bring the cost of a gallon of gas to $1 or lower if we could just tell the greenies to shut up and get out of the way. That is fact. Bringing China’s increasing demand into the mix is nothing more than a diversion tactic – an attempt to reframe the argument because you know I’m right. We have enough oil here to supply us with all the petroleum products of every variety we need for well over a century at the most conservative estimates. During that time, efficincies and new types of energy will have time to be developed in an economically sound fashion. So, again explain to me why I’m wrong without resorting to shifting to an entirely different argument?
By the way, we have enough oil here to supply all our demand as well as to sell some to China if they want it. It’s a win-win. But, hey, since you obviuosly like the Simpsons, I’ll leave you with my favorite Homer quote: “Facts, shmacts. You can use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true.” I used facts. You used diversion tactics and tired old greenie lies. Care to try again?

So ends the reign of Australia’s first female pm.

she will go down in history as the worst prime minister ever she is a goose and a left wing communist