This is all well & good, but will some of you overly sensitive types answer the questions. No one, so far, has even attempted to answer one off the questions I've asked. What, "not my job."

So if and when we say enough is enough and we stop mining coal, do you really think other countries will just sit back and let this happen, do you think that perhaps they may just think we are easy picking considering the untapped wealth we would have locked up and thrown away the key for.

Think again, after all they don't care about reducing co2 like we do.

Think again, after all they don't care about reducing co2 like we do.
rehctub,
Yep & if the proponents had the sense to think then we wouldn't have this debate in the first place.

Sorry JayB, you asked some serious questions but I got derailed with pepper's statement/question:

>> I have been trying to get to one (anti-tax rally) for a year now but can never, ever find anything that tells me when they were due and where they were to be held. What does that tell you ? <<

One only had to read the papers, search the web, or listen to radio shock-jocks before any of these pre-arranged events.

Anyway, gotta rush - will have a crack at your 1st question tho';

>> When are the power Stations going to close? <<

Not anytime soon - we can't shut them down without having adequate alternative power generation, from a mix of sources.

I understand why Tony Abbott is trawling the country and airwaves spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt - but these coal mines can't be shut down overnight.

Bonmot, these coal mines could be shut down, if we wanted to go to all our lovely new gas finds. It would be rather silly, as the gas is really more valuable as an industrial input. Pity we will sell it off, rather than use it that way.

They will never be shut down by alternative power generation, as there are none that work.

Just ask the Spanish why they are bankrupt, if you don't believe that.

Hasbeen, glad to see you think so too.

However, like I said, there will be a mix of alternatives.

As we all understand (well, most of us anyway) that too won't happen overnight.

Gas - yes
Solar-thermal - yes
Nuclear - yes
Wind - yes
Geothermal - yes
Biofuel - yes
Tidal - yes
and so on.

Last time I looked, they work.
Last time I looked, it's horses for courses.

We're not talking 'tomorrow', Hasbeen.
We're not talking 'every' continent, country, city, town, suburb or village, Hasbeen.

For Oz, we too will have a mix.

Just ask China, America, India, Europe, and even little ol' Oz if you don't believe that.