Quadrant Online - Our fossil fuel legacy

The first step towards the new Green world order is a carbon tax designed to rob five hundred demonized Peters to pay favoured Pauls and bribe millions of voters. But the tax will have no measurable effect on CO2 in the atmosphere let alone on global warming, not even if the rest of the world follows suit, which it won’t. When the tax or ETS is ratcheted up until it impoverishes us, it will still have no discernible effect unless the rest of the world follows suit, which it won’t. When the fabled farmer took an axe to the goose that laid the golden eggs he at least gained a roast dinner. We have nothing to gain from a carbon tax, but a great deal to lose. We must axe the tax, not the goose.

Quadrant Online - Daily doomsday climate news

Under Sir David’s scheme, lucky Australia would be allowed 22 million (people) x 2 tonnes, which would equal 44 million tonnes of allowable CO2. We currently create about 418 million tonnes of CO2 so we Australians will be looking at shedding about 9/10’s of our current fossil-fuelled lifestyle — give or take a wind-turbine or two. Even the most pessimistic Green-optimist knows that we can’t possibly do this without abandoning cars, trucks, coal/gas fired electricity generators, manufacturing, construction and our airlines as well as the Army, Navy and Air Force — to say nothing of just about everything we export.

So don’t sell your horse, folks! Alternative transport is going to be at a premium.