Keith, I had a double take when I read your answer. (as in Dougs of the world untie!) Australia is also going through the pains of setting up a Carbon Tax to start in 2012. Unfortunately we have an extremely vociferuous (& might I add obnoxious) Opposition Leader in Tony Abbott (nickname Rabbit, or Wingnut). You may guess I am not a fan. The odds of the carbon Tax actually coming to fruition are not good, unfortunately. We have a Minority Government, & an Opposition that is pulling out all stops to axe the tax, & unfortunately I feel is also talking down the economy too. Australia is currently performing really well, & the average Australian is possibly better off now than at any time in recent history. If you heard the Opposition speaking, you would think we were going down the plughole.
I am no fan of either major political party in Australia, but I hope we never have Tony Abbott as PM. Malcolm Turnbull, who is on the opposition front bench, & a firm supporter of the need to cut pollution from CO2, made a speech to the Press Club last week, supporting the need for action against Global warming. Hopefully he will soon be Opposition leader in Australia so the Rabbit loses his voice. regards Doug On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:26:23 PM Keith Addison wrote: > >Sweden has been using a carbon tax since 1991. It works. See > > > >http://www.carbontax.org > > > ><http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/0/2108273.pdf> > > > >If markets are to deliver a least-cost economy then prices have to be > >corrected to include costs external to market transactions. Taxes are > >the simplest and most efficient way to do this. Alfred Pigou introduced > >the concept in the 1920s. We're a little slow catching on. > > > :-) Funny, that. > > Thanks Doug - all best > > Keith > > >Doug Woodard > >St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada > > > > > >On 7/9/2011 8:53 PM, Keith Addison wrote: > ><http://www.truth-out.org/market-lying-why-we-must-tax-carbon-not-subsidiz > >e-it/1309962187> > > > >[snip] > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
