IT is easy to find ways to poke fun at the EU and the tendency of its Brussels-based bureaucrats to draft detailed directives on the contents of sausages, the shape of vegetables and many other aspects of everyday life. Continue reading
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Aus: Eurocrats laugh at our scheme all the way to bank
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon trading
Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
Aus: Rushed carbon permit auction to prop up budget
The federal government plans to bolster its sagging budget bottom line by a near tripling of the auction of carbon emissions permits in 2013-14. Continue reading
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Aus: Europeans have the last laugh on ETS
Whenever the Gillard government was told the bleeding obvious about the negative impact its carbon tax would have on our economic fortunes its response was defiant. Continue reading
Robert Zubrin: The Green War on the Poor
The Democratic party used to care about poor and working people. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Cap & Tax
Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, really stupid idea
Aus: Carbon shift to ease scrapping of tax: Coalition
THE Coalition says the linking of Australia’s carbon price to Europe’s will make it easier for Tony Abbott to axe the scheme, by giving firms a market to resell unnecessary forward-dated permits. Continue reading
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Aus: Outmanoeuvred: how Combet blindsided Greens into policy backdown
IT was about six weeks ago that Greg Combet made his move. The implementation phase of Labor’s carbon pricing regime was over; the emissions tax was up and running. Continue reading
Aus: Big emitters attack price link to EU
THE government’s plans to link Australia’s emissions trading scheme to Europe have been attacked by the chairmen of two of Australia’s biggest carbon polluters. Continue reading
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Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, really stupid idea
Aus: Fear wind energy might be losing its puff
WINDFARMS have vowed to fight a rearguard action against changes to the renewable energy target as a potential plummet in the carbon price to $12 a tonne in 2015 raises new fears that the renewable projects would be uneconomic. Continue reading
Roger Pielke Jr.: Not With a Bang But a Whimper
So the long-running soap opera called Australian Climate Politics has reached its surprising end. Continue reading
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Andrew Bolt: The carbon tax just became another damaging tax grab
Henry Ergas on the cost of the latest Gillard Government backtrack – dropping the $15 a tonne floor price on carbon permits: Continue reading
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Andrew Bolt: Carbon tax changed already to limit damage
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today proved the carbon tax was not thought through and needs dramatic revision just two months after it was introduced. The change is to stop the worst of the damage, but it makes the tax even more useless. Continue reading
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Designers Set Sail, Turning to Wind to Help Power Cargo Ships
“If the world’s shipping fleet were a country, it would be the world’s sixth leading emitter of greenhouse gases. To reduce those emissions — and, not incidentally, to conserve expensive fossil fuels — cargo ship designers are now turning to the oldest source of power there is: the wind.“
Does whale oil attract carbon credits or certified emission reduction certificates when used for lighting? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Carbon offsets, Cap & Tax, Carbon trading
Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, international trade, shipping
Study: Carbon tax could raise $1.5 trillion
They just love your money: Continue reading
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Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, climate fraud, government cash grab, really stupid idea
Aus: Combet’s cut-price carbon caper blows $25 billion budget black hole
<chuckle> That tax that “wasn’t about revenue”? Abandoning the “floor price” just ripped another hole in the Green/Left government’s budget. Continue reading
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Aus: Carbon changes will hit budget surplus
AUSTRALIA’S carbon price will be set by the volatile European market from 2015 under changes announced by the Gillard government that could hit the budget bottom line and cut incentives for switching to green energy. Continue reading
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Terry McCrann: Linking collective carbon insanities
THE symbolism couldn’t be more deliciously appropriate: we are linking the collective insanity of our carbon tax to the collective insanity of Europe’s. Continue reading
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Aus: Govt scraps $15 carbon floor price
Desperate moves as the failing Gillard Government tries to back out of the despised carbon tax without too severely alienating the Aus Greens propping up the government. Continue reading
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Could a carbon tax help the U.S. avert the fiscal cliff?
“With the United States facing the expiration of a slew of tax cuts in 2013—the dread “fiscal cliff”—there has been plenty of interest in offbeat tax-reform proposals. And one idea that a few economists keep knocking around is a fee on carbon emissions. After all, if we need to raise revenue, why not just tax global-warming pollution?“
Because it isn’t taxing “pollution” but abundant affordable energy. That and it won’t do a damned thing to “address global warming”. Continue reading
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Obama aide hints climate will stay in campaign background
A spokesman for President Obama’s reelection campaign suggested Thursday that climate change is unlikely to take center stage in the 2012 White House battle, noting that Obama’s contrast with GOP rival Mitt Romney is already apparent. Continue reading
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley: Is CO2 mitigation cost-effective?
Australia’s carbon tax: This note, prepared for distinguished scientific delegates at the 2012 annual seninars on planetary emergencies of the World Federation of Scientists, demonstrates the application of a much-simplified method of climate-mitigation investment appraisal to the recently-introduced Australian carbon dioxide tax. Continue reading
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