Below is Wycky’s comment to Malcolm Turnbull….. I hope he reads it.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 9:50 PM
Malcolm you make a good point – “Somebody has to pay”.
But first why should we be the first to have an ETS?
0.28% of CO2 is man made, Australia’s contributes approx 1.43% of the 0.28%. We are only contributing a fraction of CO2 emissions,if we could shut down every manufacturing and power plant, take every car off the road and go back to the stone ages the difference wouldn’t be worth mentioning.
So I ask you again, why should we be first to do it?“Somebody has to pay”.
How about the Governments? how man billions of dollars have been spent world wide on “Global Warming / Climate Change” research?
I know in the last 30 years The USA has spent approx $79 Billion on Climate Change Research and what do they have to show for it???? A NEW TAX!If that 30 years and $79 billion was spent on renewable energies imagine what a different world we would live in today, and the governments wouldn’t have to tax the people due to their own incompetence.
Malcolm should sit at the backbench and mull over his words. We have a real oppositiion govt for once, bring on the election, while Rudd will still be re-elected (the swing is way too big), let’s send his party a message that we’re not going to put up with a tax based on fear.