States' backlash grows over carbon tax - Weekly Times Now

THE Gillard government faces an escalating backlash from the states over the planned carbon tax.

NSW has warned it could slash the value of Australia's largest electricity generator by $7 billion.
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But The Australian has independently learnt that modelling produced during the NSW Labor government's electricity privatisation found the value of the state's power stations would fall from $14bn to just $1.5bn.

Voters on warpath over carbon tax - Weekly Times Now

Voters are also not convinced the carbon tax will help the environment. Only 20 per cent expect it will have a major impact on the environment, with 29 per cent saying it will have no impact and 46 per cent saying it will be minor.

» A Resurrected Liberal Offers His Manifesto For Fixing America – Part 2 - Big Government

Because the science is settled, Global Warming Alarmism (GWA) is the religion we can all agree on, so only it should be permitted to affect public policy. Al Gore will be the head of the church. Give him a cool-sounding name, like “The Goracle”.

Since he’s essentially the religion’s Father, and he always disappears like a Ghost whenever someone confronts him, he fills three roles — a kind of Holy Trinity thing that might even get Christians to come on board. All legislation must pass through federal and state chapters of GWA for approval, since our very existence is at stake.

The Gillard-Green-independent-minority government is dead in the water | thetelegraph.com.au

The mining tax is going nowhere; levying a tax and claiming such action will affect the global temperature is increasingly being seen for the scam it is