The Carbon Tax
As
most people are aware the Carbon Tax will commence from the beginning of July.
Without
doubt this is most detested and unfair tax of any other tax before it.
We
must have taxes of many forms to run our country and infrastructures, and we
all accept our taxes as an ‘evil’ necessity, but the Carbon Tax is not there
for that reason.
Before
explaining let’s look at the ‘reason’ the Labor government gives for imposing
such a tax.
They
say that if they impose a tax of $23.00 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted, that it will force up the cost of
electricity and make people reduce their consumption of electrical power.
This
applies to Industry, commerce and domestic consumption of electricity. Forcing
people to use less power and thus reduce the output from the thermal coal fired
power stations, which in turn would use less coal and thus create less carbon
dioxide.!!!
Also
industry and commerce theoretically will reduce production because of the cost to
them of the carbon tax, with the supposedly same result.
Obviously
the idea came from the Greens who live
in a make believe world, like middle earth, with the words ‘common sense and
logic’ totally alien to them.
The
facts are it will force the cost of everything up by as much as 20% from the
flow on of various price increases in various industries.
But
there will be NO reduction in power
consumption, because electricity is essential to our homes, our jobs, our
manufacturers, our industries.
Industry
and manufacturers are not going to reduce production just because the cost of
power has gone up 15% or more. That cost obviously will be passed on to you the
consumer, who will pay the ultimate price.
Since
1993 power consumption has grown at approximately 4% per year without the slight
influence from solar panels, wind generators or other ‘renewable’ energy
sources.\
Thermal
power generation growth has increased 98% in that period and will continue to
grow to meet the demands of our growing economy and industrial demands whether
the carbon tax is there or not.
The
carbon tax will achieve absolutely nothing except to put our money in the
pockets of the Labor government who will then proceed to pass seven thousand
million (seven billion) dollars a year on to the United Nation for them to give
away to ‘third world’ countries as they wish.
Your money
that could have been spent on roads, health, hospitals and many other urgently
needed infrastructures. At the same time the deaths on our roads will continue to
increase because the desperate need for money to repair them is being pirated
away by this insane government.
All
this carbon tax, hot rocks programmes, solar farms, wind generators,
underground carbon dioxide storage, roofing insulation programmes and clean
coal technology was supposedly intended
to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions.
Every
one of them is a miserable failure and the carbon tax is an obvious raping of
our economy.
The hot rocks programme collapsed, literally,
and has been shut down.
The roofing insulation programme was an
unbelievable waste and a massive disaster with billions of dollars wasted.
The
underground carbon dioxide storage is a total failure with nearly sixty percent
of the power generated being used to pump the carbon dioxide underground.
The
clean coal technology programme is another complete failure with many billions
of dollars of Queenslanders money wasted and the company operating it going
bankrupt.
With
billions of dollars spent, the solar farms and wind generators have generated (not so called capacity) less
than 1.5% of our total power.
Excluding Hydro power at 4.6%, which has been
in operation fully since 1974.
Not
only has our carbon dioxide emissions in Australia NOT reduced, nor will it,
but also after some thirty five years the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
NOT fallen one gram.
Let
me ask you six questions (and please no cheating) if you don’t know just write
what you think it is.\
1. What
percentage is the total carbon dioxide of our atmosphere.
2. What
percentage of that is supposedly ‘man made’ carbon dioxide.
3. What
is 97% of the Worlds ‘greenhouse’ gases.
4. What
percentage of the world’s man made gases does Australia emit.
5. If
the Labor government reduced our annual emissions by 20% (which is impossible)
what percentage difference would this
make to the world’s carbon dioxide level.
6. Over
the past fifty years how much has the World’s carbon dioxide increased per year.
A1 Total percentage is point zero three eight of
one percent i.e. .038%
A2.
3.4% or .038 x 3.4% = .00129 of one percent of total atmosphere.
Over total time.
A3.
Moisture, as in clouds. Without this ‘Greenhouse’ gas there would be no life on
earth as we know it because there would be no rivers, lakes or rain.
A4 1.5% or as a percentage .00001935 of one
percent !!!
A5 One fifth of the above or . 00000387 of ONE PERCENT.
A6 CO2 in the atmosphere has increased at .00008
of ONE percent per year.
After
looking at these figures it is very clear what a scam and deliberate lie man
made climate change and the carbon tax is. But the alarmists, the Greens, the
U.N. and others have made billions of dollars by deceiving the world with their
lies.
Carbon
Dioxide itself is a harmless gas that we breathe in at 400 ppm and out at 1000
parts per million and is essential to all forms of plant growth.
Its
ability to absorb or deflect heat is little different to many other gases.
It
is now proven that carbon dioxide increases lag behind global temperature
increases by 800 years.
In
2012 the Kyoto treaty is due for resigning but not one of the major countries
will be signing it. The U.K. stated
clearly they can no longer afford to waste money on “renewable energy’ which is
proving to be a total failure. The USA, Brazil, South Africa, China, India,
France, Russia, and many other countries have turned their backs on the so
called Man made climate change. All saying they can no longer afford to waste
any more of their economies (some that are in recession, like the U.K.) on the
renewable energy ideology.
Not
only has it severely damaged their economies but has also left many,
desperately short of electrical power. Ironically, they were being rescued by
those countries that retained and expanded their thermal and nuclear energy
programmes.
The
only success out of all these programmes is the home solar panel installations,
if they are installed at the right
price. They have absolutely no effect on national power demand being a teaspoon
in a two hundred litre drum but have helped reduced many domestic power bills.
The
power of the future;
Both
the USA and Australia have enough coal at present usage and sales to last for
the next 380 years. That is not counting coal deposits yet to be located, so we
will be using thermal coal and gas power for a long time yet.
The
power of the future most likely will be the new LFTR fourth generation nuclear
power plants. The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors that are non
radio active and will consume all their fuel with no by products and are able
to consume the by products from older
radio active plutonium reactors.
Solar
farms and Wind generators will never play a major role in power generation as
their output is far to low and unreliable and is expensive to install and
operate for the power generated.
Also
on a smaller capacity scale both tidal and wave action power generation holds
promise for the future but would never have a major input.
Australia
belongs to all true Australians and as such anything above or below the ground
belongs to us too. As such, any mining of coal, iron ore, gas, oil, timber,
etc. should pay a royalty that is fair and reasonable to both sides. That way
we all share the wealth.
But
the Carbon Tax punishes and robs the wrong people to satisfy the greed of a
government that will do anything to get money to satisfy their needs and their
Green cohorts in crime.
It
would be wonderful to have cheap power available to us all, but apart from home
solar panels (after they have paid for themselves) it is not possible.
Terence
Cardwell