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Carbon Tax

the next battle
in the long War on Carbon.

29 June 2010

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Nearly
twelve months ago “Carbon Sense” predicted that the Ration-N-Tax
Scheme was dead in the water, but there was real danger that it would be
replaced by a carbon tax.

See:

http://carbon-sense.com/2009/07/19/carbon-tax-saddled/

This looks
more likely today. Those who seek total control over our lives and our assets
will not rest, and a carbon tax will be supported by:

Governments
who need help to fund their wasteful spending.

Promoters
of wind and solar power – a huge permanent carbon tax is the only
thing that will make these energy follies look economic.

Those
promoting nuclear power, which is coal’s major competitor for the
generation of reliable economic base-load electricity.

The
Climate Change Research industry, which needs an assured stream of income
to support never-ending “research”.

Those
who support national and international redistribution of wealth. Favoured
classes and nations will have access to a carbon slush fund to be used for
“compensation” for the effects of climate change, for
increases in the cost of living or for whatever else sounds plausible and
deserving at the time.

The
anti-development, anti-technology, anti-enterprise, anti-growth,
back-to-sandals brigade who see carbon fuels, cheap energy and abundant
power as the wicked foundations for all modern industry.

Gas
producers will secretly barrack for a carbon tax.  Even though gas is a carbon fuel,
and produces carbon dioxide when burnt, gas usage will get a boost every
time a wind farm or solar array is built. Every wind/solar plant needs a
reliable but flexible power plant on standby. As soon as the wind drops,
or a cloud obscures the sun, the standby plant must be ready to fire up
immediately. Gas will generally be the chosen backup. A carbon tax will
also encourage the replacement of coal generators with gas generators, as
gas combustion produces less carbon dioxide per unit of energy produced.
So, ironically, one carbon fuel (gas) will benefit from a carbon tax, even
though its price will increase to cover the tax.

Many
Greens rightly object to the speculators, traders, regulators, auditors,
lawyers and bankers lined up to benefit from emissions trading. They
prefer the clean punishment of a simple heavy direct tax on their hated
coal and oil fuels.

Nations
(mainly in Europe) who depend on non-carbon fuels such as nuclear, hydro
or geothermal will be very pleased to see taxes on coal-dependent
countries such as USA, China, India and Australia.

Many
economists will rightly claim that a carbon tax is more direct and
efficient than the complex exemption-riddled Cap-n-Tax Schemes.

However the
alarmist industry knows that people hate taxes. For them, the disadvantage of a
carbon tax is that it will always be vulnerable to clean quick abolition (and
the sooner the better).

An election
is looming and carbon taxes and/or new resource taxes will loom large on the
agenda. None of them will have any beneficial effect on global temperatures. We
must increase the heat on all politicians – let them know that you will
actively oppose anyone who supports or defends Emissions Trading or Carbon
Taxes.

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For
Immediate Release

28th
June 2010

“Carbon Tax”
– signpost to the new dark age.

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that a carbon
tax was the next likely battle in the long war on carbon.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said it was ominous that one of the first
promises made by Australia’s new Prime Minister was:

“If
elected as Prime Minister I will re-prosecute the case for a carbon price at
home and abroad.”

Forbes added:

“Big governments love carbon taxes. They promise
a bountiful political dividend of tax receipts and green votes.

“The tax harvest will feed the climate change
industry, provide eternal corporate welfare for alternate energy speculators,
and allow politicians to buy votes with handouts for favoured mendicants.

“But a carbon tax will have zero beneficial
effect on earth’s temperature.

“Carbon taxes will be welcomed by the solar/wind
lobby. But the world now has plenty of real experiments proving the inability
of these follies to generate reliable power at reasonable cost - Spain,
Portugal, Germany, Denmark and California.

“But the slow learner governments of the world,
UK, New Zealand and Australia, seem determined to punish their economies, their
tax payers and their electricity consumers by repeating the same anti-carbon
errors.

“There are other feasible methods for generating
reliable economic non-carbon electricity – nuclear power as in France,
geo-thermal as in Iceland, and hydro as in Scandinavia. However none of these
options will be available for Australia for at least a decade.

“Carbon taxes will just depress the tourism,
transport, steel, resource and cement industries and
penalise every user of electricity in their homes, farms, factories and
refineries.

“Carbon Tax” should be Gillard-tined for
the same reasons that the Wong Ration-N-Tax Scheme was chopped – it will
have no
climate benefits but it will destroy businesses, jobs and living standards.

“Everyone knows that if you tax something, less
of it will be produced.

“Carbon produces the heat, light, food and
transport for the modern world. A carbon tax will inevitably reduce the
production of these essentials – it is a signpost on the road to a new
dark age.

Viv Forbes

Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition

Rosevale, Qld, Australia

www.carbon-sense.com

Phone 07 5464 0533

Email: [email-masked]

For a commentary on wind farms, with
particular reference to Scotland, Denmark and Germany see:

http://www.iesisenergy.org/GibsonM/index.html

For a detailed look at wind power in
Denmark see: http://www.cepos.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/Arkiv/PDF/Wind_energy_-_the_case_of_Denmark.pdf

And in case you are tempted to allow
a wind turbine in your back yard, see one explode:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/windmill.asp

And for those who love eagles see:

http://www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=4382