No winners in fight over climate change
The climate change debate is deadlocked and each side is more obsessed with attacking the other's policy than promoting its own.Managing spin cycle can leave a government all washed up
With neither policy ever likely to see the light of day, voters are condemned to endure competing theoretical arguments from here on about who is out to shaft them the hardest.
For marginal seats holders the ETS is becoming something of a nightmare. It's one thing to surf along on climate change, as in 2007 when the argument was comfortably vague. It's quite another when you have to answer all sorts of nitty-gritty queries about fuel costs and family compensation, and know your figures to the dollar. One Labor source says: "A number of Labor backbenchers are very concerned about where the government is going on this. They don't think the government is selling it correctly, and they are very concerned about what effect it will have on energy prices."India seeks clarity on equity of climate change [swindle] | CalcuttaTube
It is also becoming increasingly hard to explain to people why Australia should be moving when things look bleak internationally. The latest blow came from the US where last week President Barack Obama flagged the US legislation was unlikely to get through this year.
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"A distinguished professor from the local university (specialty semi conductor materials), asks question of German dude who just presented some info on his solar panel company. 'My calculations have always shown that the energy to manufacture a solar panel is greater than the expected total output from the finished panel up to their predicted mean time to fail. Has new technology changed this fact?' Answer from German dude. 'The Ontario government pays between 70 - 80 cents per KWhr for power from solar installations supplying the grid. The current rate for all power is 12 cents. This is what matters.'"
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