The question is, how long will this last, and how long will the public tolerate these two kissy faced politicians?
Category: carbon tax
Australia's Carbon tax's poisonous pill
Story submitted by Richard Abbott At the last Australian federal election the incumbent government lead by prime minister Julia Gillard’s Labor party stood with a “no carbon tax policy”. To…
Let them truckers roll down under, 10-4
From The Australian, the beginning of a nationwide convoy protesting the carbon tax. I’m sure the delicate sensibilities of the ruling class in Canberra, most of which don’t know the…
Netherlands testing car use meters that tax your environmental impact as you drive
Looks to me like a system ripe for hacking and fraud that will turn ordinary citizens into criminals. The New York Times reports that the Netherlands is testing a new…
The fight deepens over the Carbon Tax in Australia
There is quite a fight brewing in Australia between regular folks and the Gillard government. It will come to a head when a big nationwide convoy of truckers descend on…
Carbon Tax needs a sunset clause
Sunset Clause for the C-Tax? Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That? 30 July 2011 Australians must insist that the monstrous carbon dioxide tax legislation has a sunset clause…
Give this lady an Order of Australia medal
The death spiral of PM Julia Gillard and the Labor Party in Australia continues, and it has been pretty much a sealed fate thanks to one nameless woman in gift…
Carbon Tax Mark 4? A Stealthy Cancer
Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That 10 July 2011 Carbon Tax Mark 4 is flimsy but dangerous. Because of public opposition to a new tax on everything, the…
"Carbon Sunday" – The madness in Australia over the Carbon Tax
They are calling it “Carbon Sunday”. This is a collection of links and excerpts regarding PM Julia Gillard’s speech announcing the tax. In a nutshell, from what I can see,…
UK business poised to flee green carbon tax
From The GWPF, newsbytes on the subject of UK Businesses Threaten To Flee Abroad To Escape Green Energy Levies British industry’s ability to compete with companies overseas is under threat…
Pressure Mounts To Come Clean On Hidden Green Taxes
Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF: Power companies were under mounting pressure last night to come clean about the green ‘stealth levies’ secretly added to fuel bills –…
Green economic thinking: revenge not economics
Guest Post by Barry Woods TATA recently announced the loss of 1500 jobs in the steel industry in the UK, with the explanation that this was at least in part because of a price…
Australia! Say YES – to an election on carbon tax
Guest post by Ruth Bonnett In late 2010, I wrote about how bad science can give rise to bad policy. My Christmas message to farmers in Australia and around the…
Skeptic Strategy for Talking About Global Warming
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein What should a responsible Skeptic say to an astute audience? When recently invited by the “Technology, Engineering, and Science Plus” group in my community to…
Value Adding in Australia – the Beginning of the End?
News Alert: Smelting and Refining of Mount Isa copper in Queensland to cease. Guest post by Viv Forbes The first industries of Australia were farming and mining and these two…
The "Taxing your car by the mile" plan
Or in other words, we’ll all drive “taxis”, except for the chosen exempt few. Yesterday on “The Hill” they reported this story: Obama admin. floats draft plan to tax cars…
Australia's bad carbon policy advice dissected
Wrong advice, wrong policy by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks, Bill Kininmonth & Des Moore From Quadrant Online April 25, 2011 Government misadvised on global warming On November 10…
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