Comments on: Australia Passes Controversial Carbon Tax

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:49:00 +0000

Aussie solar is second only to the Sahara. Look at the insolation map.

By: Tom_Garven

Tom_Garven — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:43:00 +0000

tsport100:

There are many people in America who probably wished the presidential elections were held every 2 years instead of 4, LOL Some people are not in love with the leadership capabilities or political agenda of our current president.

It’s not that he hasn’t tried; but you just can’t go around making comments like – ‘under my plan electric rates will necessarily skyrocket’ if you are looking for support to implement something like Cap & Trade. Personally I believe a Carbon Tax would work far better for America and get much more support if the tax was structured in such a way that the money could ONLY be used for the CONSTRUCTION of renewable energy systems. To me it doesn’t make any difference HOW we reduce our use of carbon based fuels, it only matters that WE DO.

Our Congress only has a 17% approval rating so I don’t think the American people would be too happy to turn over many more billions of their money to politicians to manage who would probably skim 20% right off the top of some program like Cap & Trade. Instead take the money from my hand [carbon tax] and give it to someone building a renewable energy system – I will vote for that, LOL I will NEVER vote for some giant trading program ripe with ways to game the system. Sorry to say this but yes I am in the 17% of people who don’t trust their politicians. Politicians in America are interested in only one thing and that is getting reelected. I read somewhere they spend MORE than 50% of their time on reelection. I also believe in 4 year term limits. I don’t believe our founders ever envisioned retirement plans for member of Congress.

When the right individual is elected faster carbon reduction will occur. And please don’t ask me if it will be a Democrat, Republican or Independent since we are WAY to far away from the next election. Check back with me in 10 months, LOL. We don’t even know if some Democrat will even challenge our current president. Besides, I vote for an INDIVIDUAL and not a PARTY. A PARTY is just an organization while an INDIVIDUAL can be a leader and gets stuff done.

Have a great day tsport100

By: Grmeyers

Grmeyers — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I meant CO2 and appreciate your reference to the Stern Report. G

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:35:00 +0000

hmm, that does sound familiar.

ugh..

By: johnh

johnh — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:23:00 +0000

Does the author mean to say “ton of carbon” or “ton of carbon dioxide”?

$23 per ton of CO2 is $84 per ton of carbon, but $23 per ton of carbon is only $6.27 per ton of CO2. If you mean CO2 please don’t say “carbon”, there’s a big difference.

According to the Stern Report (UK) the actual social and environmental cost for CO2 is $180 per ton, that’s equal to over $600 per ton of carbon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:14:00 +0000

Businesses in Australia can’t have more certainty for their investments when the Australian media give more air time to the political idiot saying he’s going to “repeal the tax” and the next Federal Election is only 2 years away…. Like in the US, with Federal Elections a ridiculously frequent every 4 years but the sort of structural changes required to tackle Carbon requiring 10-15 year investment time lines, the vested interests of the status quo, causing the political system to be paralysed, has now become the biggest source of instability in society!