Thread: Carbon Tax. Well someone had to bring it up!

Originally Posted by slug_burner

The thought that industries that have gone overseas years ago has got anything to do with the carbon tax is about as logical as blaming the the death of my dog on the carbon tax.

Mate if I knew what industries were going to be the winners I'd be investing in them and telling you would be the last of my worries.

The doom and gloom over the carbon tax is no different to that associated with every other change. Opportunities for those that are prepared to accept the change and make the most of it and extinction for all that still want to make buggy wheels and provide hay and stables because they don't want to accept change.

That your dog died of something is irrelevant to the carbon tax issue.

My examples of industries was to remind us that we have very little manufacturing base left in this country, and far from being irrelevant is rather important. We have missed the boat in being involved in sunrise industries developing because of the switch over to low carbon power generation and our remaining wealth generation from parts of the country, particularly in NSW and Qld is from exporting of coal and aluminium.

Introducing a carbon tax while our competitors don't have similar taxes only makes those places more attractive to manufacturers and hastens the transfer of those industries to other places. Caltex's comments about ceasing refining in Oz is an example of such a transfer.

One of the major roles of Government is to protect our national interests and introducing a tax that can only make our produce, manufactured goods and minerals more expensive when our competitors don't have them is not in our interest. What they should be doing is investing and subsidising a low carbon future, power generation, and laying the groundwork for the introduction of a carbon tax at the same time as our competitor nations introduce similar systems.

Remember we are too far from the rest of the World for tourism to save us, nor will food production and our minerals won't last forever, so our strategic interests must include our being competitive with the rest of the world and having something to sell them.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Introducing a carbon tax while our competitors don't have similar taxes only makes those places more attractive to manufacturers and hastens the transfer of those industries to other places. Caltex's comments about ceasing refining in Oz is an example of such a transfer.

europe, uk, china, nz all have one or are well down the road to having one and some are more reaching than ours and going about it slightly differently but it is happening in more places than just here

i personally am undecided but favour it more than i dislike it as it "should" provoke a change in mindsets, hopefully to the degree it is starting too in nz, by all accounts..

We, and when I said we I refering to the people in Australia that have the money, are not interested in manufacturing or value add products. They are interested in having a warehouse and couple of forklifts and make easy money by importing products, they are interested in exploit our resources and send (export) in many cases to their parent companies and make money there and here by bring the end products to Australia.
It is so good for them that carbon tax or not as we debate in this thread invetors are trying to take over more Australian companies.

PM Julia Gillard hails coal miner takeover bid as proof caron tax won't kill industry | News.com.au

There is no denying climate change is a reality...

Any decent Geologist will tell you this...

Its been going on for Millions of years...

To think a financial tax is going to change anything in the worlds heating and cooling cycles is just bollocks.

I believe we should do things efficiently, and as cleanly as possible - thats just common sense... But there are some things which can not be done any cleaner or without other side effects...

Steel cannot be made without part of the process involving a blast furnace.

Power cannot be made without some form of stored energy and / or by product...

Coal & Atom create emissions.
Coal creates inert gas in large volumes - that nature *can* convert
Atomic creates products that nature will take eons to sort.

Wind / Wave create emissions during manufacture, installation, maintenance, repair...


This planet will warm up and will cool down.... Its the cycle of things...

Did we accelerate it? Perhaps... But historically were overdue for an Ice Age...

Tombies Carbon reduction plan part 2....

Cease all medical procedures which extend human lifespans...

More people on the planet = more carbon.
Less people = less carbon.

Tombies Carbon reduction plan part 3....

Ban all forms of this...


That lovely "Fizz" you hear is messing up the planet.

It is a easy reading article HERE about emissions