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Climate change's ugly sister : Comments
By Graham Young, published 14/3/2011When banning CO2 was just a good idea it was popular, but not now that it comes with a cost.
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All the big companies recognise that there is money to be made from supporting the concept. They will pay 'x' dollars for the licence and then charge their customers for that cost - plus interest. They cannot lose. Their shareholders will not be losers.
Who will the losers be?
The ordinary family that has no savings, litle superannuation and a very basic wage.
PM Gillard is going to compensate those families? Every cent collected will be paid to low income families?
How will she collect the licences fees? Who will calculate those fees? Who decides who qualifies for assistance?
An administration fee of thirty percent is quite normal.
Will the rest of Australia cover the extra admin costs or will they reduce the gross fees collected?
Prof S. Fred Singer got it right when he wrote that this is a plan to get the poor of rich nations to pay cash to the rich of poor nations.
After the Little Ice Age, the temperature will rise as the planet resumes an equilibrium. In the 20th Century it rose less than one percent (1%)
Barnaby Joyce for Prime Minister. He might get his words back to front but he is very understandable and believable.