I'm in Melbourne outer eastern metropolitan area in Australia now and its rather cold and wet, so if the planet is warming can you please send some of it to us so we can reduce using gas and electricity to keep us citizens in reasonable comfort.
Our Australian Labor Party in coalition with the minority Greens Party have in their infinite wisdom introduced a CARBON TAX in their belief that we will change our behaviour and use less fossil fuels by increasing the prices.
Dirty industries such as electricity generated with coal fired power stations are going to have to increase their prices of electricity to cover the extra $23 per tonne of carbon tax.... so i guess some of the poorer people will switch to using wood fired heating systems which tend to generate extra smoke, but the weathy will continue to use as before and the middle classes will try and reduce heating their larger homes by closing off some rooms but then decide that they can cut out other expenditure to cover their basic primary need for warmth and food. Prices will go up and consumers might vote the current political members out of office at the next elections.
I'm thinking the best way to try keep Australia in a pristine carbon free zone is to export all our 24 Million people including natives to China or the USA if you'll have us. We will need an income to pay our way and we would want to keep exporting the minerals like iron ore & coal to china where they can continue to burn fuels to make the things we need like cars and computers, Unfortunately we wont be able to control bush fires which creates carbon dioxide during bushfires, but thats ok according to the Greenies. And then we will still need to keep our little army on site to protect our minerals from being stolen by other nearby nations, but wait why would they not just move 150 Million people in anyway as we have lots of dams and other infrustructure and our houses are more than big enough to house 6 times more people. Back to square one, except the Greens wont have any power to stop 150 million new invaders and the cycle starts all over again.
My view is ...instead of introducing all these new taxes and punishing its citizens for daring to live a reasonable lifestyle and to subsidise uneconomic renewable products made from fossel fuels, why dont the many government funded R & D departments use their skills and those of the many University professors throughout the world to continue the research begun by Nicola Tesla and or also to offer TAX FREE status rewards for inventions to both individuals as well as to corporations who can develope low input high output energy systems, on their own and without government assistance or subsidies. ie Tax benefits after they are proven to work in a free market financial environment, but certainly no reward until it works.
The current methods used by various governments throughout the western communities seem designed to benefit our trading competitors and punishing all our western citizens except those companies who are peddling unproven and uneconomic renewable energies for inexperienced gullible politicians who are trying to second guess and pick winners. The reality is when governments have tried to create wealth they usually destroy it instead, especially when our manufacturing jobs are dissapearing in Australia and the USA due to excessive increases in energy and labour cost for the direct benefit of the cheaper asian situated workforces where there are no punishing taxes for CO2 emissions which incidently plants use to convert to OXYGEN.
Why dont farmers and forestry owners earn cash for oxygen they create on there farms?..
Now can I take this opportunity to suggest a total re-definition of the meaning of true work......a farmer or a factory worker is a real worker, but a government "worker" sitting in an office writing up reports and collecting taxes is hardly a worker IMHO. Anyone have any opinions on this topic and my other comments above?
