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OT - new carbon tax 19-Mar-2011 At 8:28:04 AM TonyB

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The climate change scam is good for many reasons - it gives politicians an opportunity to get more tax money, and win elections. Scientists love it because it gets them research grants for the most obscure projects, no matter how ridiculous. People love it because they can do something to feel good about helping the environment (but only until it costs them money, and they realise that it makes no difference to the environment). The media loves it because it sells lots of TV time and newspapers. Industry loves it because they can get lots of government assistance to upgrade equipment if they paint it "green". Industry also loves being able to close down plants with lots of CO2 emissions, send manufacturing offshore (like Pachauri did with his steel mills) and get millions more in government donations for doing so. Solar and wind companies love it because they are getting rich on government subsidy. Nuclear power companies love it for the same reason ... pity about Japan though. Undeveloped countries love it because the developed countries are going to give them lots of penalty money (agreed to by Rudd) so they can build more coal fired power stations without penalty.

The only people who don't like it are those who are smart enough to see that the carbon scam doesn't have a single scrap of evidence to support the theory. The tax is just more hard earned money going down the drain rather than being spent on the plethora of real environmental problems.