Mangled Thoughts

Nearly, because two details are absent. There is no nuclear plant, which will disappoint those vested interests who have been pushing carbon taxation for that very reason. It will be ‘carbon credit and trading’, which will please the Peony company and one of its directors, Mr. Yates, and any other vested interests.

It is not a bill yet, but Rudd and Wong have a time-table to impose the tax.

TIMETABLE FOR INTRODUCTION OF EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME

1. March to June 2008 Phase 1 consultation with stakeholders to inform the development of the Green Paper, including: ongoing consultation with states and territories through the Council of Australian Governments;

roundtable discussions with peak industry and non?government organisations, with inaugural meetings held on 3 March;

consultation with the agriculture and forestry sectors on the question of their inclusion in the emissions trading scheme and o the timeframe for that inclusion;

and targetted consultations on technical design issues.

2. July 2008 Public release of the Green Paper on scheme design

3. July to September 2008 Phase 2 consultation on the Green Paper

4. December 2008 Public release of exposure draft of legislative package

5. December 2008 to February 2009 Phase 3 consultation on exposure draft legislation package

6. End 2008 Firm indication by Government of planned medium?term trajectory for the scheme

7. March 2009 Bill introduced into Parliament

8. Mid - 2009 Government aims to achieve passage of bill by Parliament at this time

9. During 2009 Phase 4 consultation on emissions trading regulations

10. 3rd quarter 2009 Act enters into force; scheme regulator established

11. 2010 Emissions trading scheme will commence

 

Am I reading a Mussolini time-table crossed with a Soviet 5 2 year plan to demolish the greater KevinoWongussia of Australia.

Oddly, they believe they can compensate Australians. Penny Wong said so in Parlaiment today, in the same way as proposed by the CIS, income support in some form.

Oh, I forgot, the CIS also said a cut in fuel tax would compensate. Now , fuel taxation is causing real problems, not just for consumers but where it can do greater damage, on capital. The absurdity involved is, of course, a cut in fuel doesn’t cut the impact of the tax on coal based energy, and what should be startlingly clear, even to that lot, is no factory is powered up by a gigantic, fuel injected, multi headed cams, V 24,000 cylinder (or many thousands more cylinders) petrol engine .

Indeed, they also ignored a carbon tax can hit oil refining companies, whose factories aren’t powered by outboard factory motors, twice. On energy input and, on petrol which hits their capital again. (The shareholders of Caltex really do need to question the sanity of their Directors, who feel they really do need a de-carbonising bullet to the head. This is, of course without counting in the impact of a carbon tax on all producers of the capital goods Caltex needs).

However, there is still time to defeat the carbon tax and there is only one way, ’street fighting’. There is only one thing politicians fear and they are not so much voter ( mere vassal serfs) but the loss of votes - I suppose serfs drop dead just before ticking the right boxes and the pencils skidmark into the ‘wronguns’ as the poor sods drop to the floor in the millions.

The Directors of Woodside Petroleum, for all the worng reasons - to protect their backsides in the face of the Shell offer, wishing to strip shareholders of their property rights, hired an ex ALP Federal Minister who told them what to do and how. They did it. They whipped up the fear of Voting Serfman and struck terror into spineless Liberal backbenchers, who ran screaming to the frontbench and struck fear into that venal coward Peter Costello, who decided that he, as the ‘greatest treasurer auf dem weldt’, decided he could strip the shareholders of their property rights.

The HR Nicholls Society proved the rule right again, when they scared the living daylights out of many voters because they had completely cocked up what the real case for market reform is. We have the result, Rudd has this week put through Parliament the measures which will revert employment to the days when many are booted out onto a growing heap of the unemployed.

Rudd, today, said, ‘This day is the end of the shameful workplace agreements’.
No Rudd, what is shameful is the HR Nicholls club, Nick Minchin and Peter Costello. Reversing the reform is an atrocious disgrace. On the other hand, while Rudd and his Cabinet are ignoramuses, it’s a guessing game as to how much more retarded they are than the thickoes who have wrecked another great Liberal cause and the Liberal Party to boot.

The real problem with ’street fighting’ is the duds firing duds in the ‘free market think tanks’. They are as terrifying to the Left as a pet attack goldfish blowing bubbles at an intruder from the bottom of a twenty feet deep, 30 feet in circumference fish bowl, hiding under a rock.

Nahan, the head of the IPA, once explained to donors through The Age, or rather touting for donors, ’see, we are active, all we need is more money and we can do a lot more’. Clearly more milllions has not been enough for them to swim to the outer edge of the rock and blow bubbles.

The CIS upped the IPA ante. It held out a ‘We lurve you’ white flag in little flippers, ‘we’d like a few billions for blubbering all over those millions of nasty capitalist Australians.’

It seems the ALP saw the white flag, and are only too willing to help the Peony brigade out.

However, things ain’t over until the dust settles.