LOL, Green policies look out of this world in OZschwitz

There is something extraterrestrial going on in Canberra. Clive Palmer has come from a galaxy far, far away, captured the parliament and hijacked debate about climate change. He is patently not green, though he has managed to convince many that he is. Using some kind of Jedi mind trick, he has encouraged politicians to pass a law that will hand billions of dollars back to the biggest polluters so they can give it to consumers, who will then be able to afford to keep heaters burning longer and leave more lights on.

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Christine Milne, while widely recognised as green, also has policies that appear to have come from another planet. Her logic for keeping petrol prices low rests on a protest against extra fuel tax dollars being spent on roads. Did she rail against the proceeds of the carbon tax being used to compensate households or lift tax free thresholds (which probably helped many people buy new cars)?

Labor’s Mark Butler wants to be cast as Yoda but it’s hard to see the wisdom in a scheme, already discredited in Europe, that puts an arbitrary cap on emissions then ‘‘lets business work out the cheapest and most effective way’’ to bring down carbon pollution.

If Labor’s Jedi Council had had their way, Australia would next year be part of the European Emissions Trading Scheme. EU businesses received a massive over-allocation of free permits to protect them from financial harm. As a result of this generous subsidy program, there was no incentive to change behaviour, and emissions rose initially then fell on account of the financial crisis. Slower economic activity, including a fall in demand for energy intensive manufactured products and travel, kept emissions down around the world. Lower emissions added even more excess permits to those already sloshing around the system and now a surplus of around one billion of them means polluters have no obligation to take action.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/green-policies-look-out-of-this-world-20140711-zt4hw.html

LOL, Green policies look out of this world in OZschwitz

LOL, Green policies look out of this world in OZschwitz

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