Mangled Thoughts

No doubt the CIS, John Humphreys, Mr. Yates, Professor Sinclair Davidson will be able to explain this:

Blackouts hit thousands as generators fail, The Times (28/5/08)

Hundreds of thousands of people were hit by electricity blackouts yesterday when seven power stations shut down. The unscheduled stoppages were regarded as an unprecedented sign of the fragility of Britain’s power infrastructure.

Operations were cancelled, people were…

We know investors are loath to sink capital into energy firms because of carbon taxes. Keep in view the recent $40billions write down on stock in Australian coal-based firms, and that Japanese energy companies have killed maintenance plans and new plants because of carbon taxes. Having made the point earlier in articles on the CIS’ unconscionable full support for carbon taxes, large, general blackouts would occur as capital is extinguished in energy companies. So, what do we read but this:

It was unclear last night why the power stations had failed…
National Grid spokesman admitted that the the number of shutdowns was highly unusual…

However, this:

David Porter, chief executive of the Association of Electricity Producers, said that…more investment was required urgently to prevent more regular problems.

It’s now a matter of wishing. No investor will supply capital so that Brown, the Labour Party and the Greens can wipe it out. Now, this report is the latest in what emerged early this year as manufacturers began contracting, shutting down, and laying off thousands of employees. Thanks to Blair’s and Brown’s carbon taxes, energy supply was already being cut and prices spiralling; of course manufacturers were hit. Now it’s merely a case of everyone brought to a halt.

Blair and Brown, and their Green Stalinist mates, are culpable of ruining enterprises, causing massive blackouts and, generally impoverishing those they don’t serve at all, the British. Oh, I’m wrong, they ’serve them up’ alright. I’m still eagerly waiting for the CIS-Humphreys paper on why carbon taxes are costless, and really good for everyone and the spur of a new age of prosperity riding on ‘alternative energy’.

It’s curious, the CIS, John Humphreys, Mr. Yates, Professor Sinclair Davidson have not mentioned a bound problem. Carbon taxation and Kyoto compliance requires totalitarian, police state measures. Just to check, let’s look at our British cousins:

Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’, say MPs

Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.

Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven’t used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company.

A totalitarian control card of which only one function is rationiong. The force of the second quoted paragraph is, those who exceed their miserable allotment of energy will have supply cut off until the next year. Mind, Brits won’t have to worry about the prospect too much, the Labour Cabinet is wiping out energy companies by carbon taxation. But wait, there’s more joy. It will be a universal rationing card as well as a police state control card:

In theory it could be used to cover all purchases - from petrol to food.

It has the full support of Brown, his fellow LP thugs, and the Stalinist Greens. But, who dreamt up this totalitarian scheme? Here’s a hint. The Tory Party is stuffed by the same types who have stuffed the Australian Liberal Party. It is Tory big beast Tim Yeo’s dead obnoxious brainchild.

Yeo is head of the Parliamentary “Environmental Audit Committee”. This “Committee”
must be as compassionate as the CIS is, for they pontificate on the wonderous benefits of wiping out capital and imposing a totalitarian state and that the destitute will be overwhelmed by joy from all this compassion -

“…a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalising the poor.”

Ah, I see, it’s because it’s “personal”. Funnily enough, it is personal. However, the real benefit is everyone will ‘be ‘fairly’ ground down, except for the ‘mastahs’ the thugs in both the LP and the Tory Party. Ah - the CIS didn’t advise the “Environmental Audit Committee”? No, just joking. They have their own cretins to tell them the same things.

Returning to destruction of capital in energy production in Britian; this is exaclty what Rudd is soon to ram down on Australians. It does follow, totalitarian measures will be rammed down because there is no other way to impose it. Who are the brains behind all this for Australia’s very one Soviet Gulag in the making? Why, the likes of CIS, John Humphreys, Mr. Yates, Professor Sinclair Davidson. Bye the bye, these clowns will have to work fast at writing up their paper on “The joys of carbon taxation and totalitarian thuggery”.

Rudd has used the same arguments to excuse what he is planning. Rudd will be in need of a paper to recite to millions of immiserated Australians, telling the lumpenmasses why they never had it so good, and besides, mere dumb oafs should really not expect to live prosperous lives and in freedom.

Ah, the CIS paper has a lead in, setting out carbon taxes have the added benefit of making the unwashed do what their overlords decide is good for them - the term used is ‘changing behaviour’. See, unlike the Right and Rudd and his gang of thugs, most Australians are mere animals to be herded and flogged to death.

Note: I have decided to cease calling Rudd a fascist. It’s not because he isn’t a fascist. It’s because he is thick the meaning of the word is lost on him. I’ll call him a blundering idiot who is a statist that has gone absolutely stark raving mad. Then, no one apart from their admirers said dictators are sane.

Ah, Rudd is already fleshing out his version of a control cum rationing card. I will line this out tomorrow.