6 thoughts on “Bluescope Steel Chairman speaks out against the Carbon Tax”

1. In trying to convince Australians that they need a carbon tax to save the planet from catastrophic man-made global warming, the Gillard government and its advisors are as desperate to introduce a carbon tax just as the Rudd government was equally desperate to introducet an ETS prior to the Copenhagen conference.

   The government advisors have been coming out once again, warning that things are worse than ever, and warning how Kakadu will disappear under rising sea-levels, blah blah blah. They try to pretend a carbon tax will actually benefit the economy and grow jobs etc etc etc. They are trying so hard to sell all their ‘porky-pies’ … and they expect everyone to believe them and not question their authority, knowledge and statements.

   So when anyone does dare question them or challenge their views and opinions, they object. They cannot accept that the business community may have a different view to them. They cannot tolerate skeptic scientists who refer to peer reviewed studies that debunk their alarmist claims. They cannot tolerate being held accountable. For example, David Karoly keeps promoting the IPCC’s mantra about catastrophic man made global warming, yet when asked by Alan Jones to refer to the page in the IPCC’s report that provided the empirical evidence, he could not … not surprising because it does not actually exist.

   But at the end of the day, Bluescope Steel, and everyone else for that matter, can say what they want, but the sad truth is that Tony Windsor will deliver Gillard her carbon tax … UNLESS … unless Aussies start getting out onto the streets, in every town and in every city, to express their opposition to a carbon tax. Australians simply have to carry a placard saying… There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead.

2. The more suckers on the subsidisation teat the harder the winding back becomes
   here’s just one example:
   The New South Wales Government has been forced into a major backdown over its planned cuts to a solar rebate scheme. The Government had intended to retrospectively reduce payments for energy generated under the Solar Bonus Scheme from 60 cents per kilowatt hour to 40 cents.
   But the plan led to a major public backlash, as well as pressure from the solar industry, the Opposition and the Government’s own backbenchers.
   see www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/07/3237267.htm

   As James Delingpole says at blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100091710/vote-blue-go-green-ruin-britain/

   Sometimes it takes a trip abroad properly to ram home just how screwed your country is. And so it proved when, on the deck of a Baltic cruise ship, I first read reports of Scottish Power’s dramatic gas and electricity price rises. Instead of experiencing a wave of fury, as no doubt I would have done at home, what I felt instead was the sort of detached, sardonic amusement an alien might feel on viewing from outer space a once-great civilisation destroying itself over an issue of immeasurable triviality.

   That issue, of course, is “Climate Change”. Never before in history, I doubt, has so much money ever been squandered, so much suffering and poverty exacerbated, so much economic damage been inflicted, so many lies promulgated and so much environmental destruction wrought in order to deal with a problem so microscopically miniscule.

   and the article it links to is a must read
   www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2001244/Gas-prices-Fuel-bills-increase-crackpot-green-taxes-youre-told-about.html

   one quote:

   It’s the final unseen tax, however, that is perhaps the most outrageous. It’s now widely accepted that landowners and big businesses have started to invest in renewable energy projects — be they wind or solar-powered — only because of the huge subsidies being offered by the Government.

   AND the benefits? To the UK? To the climate? Not a mention!!!

3. is there an election in 2012; Warwick do you know something I don’t?
   blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2011/02/future-election-dates.html
   but of course you might be talking about Queensland

4. Sorry – slip of mine – of course it is approx 3 years from last August. Antony Green knows all the myriad complexities of the dates. In 2012 we get elections in WA, Qld and I think the ACT.
   Just saw the Greens have a new Carbon Tax poll with questions are bit more cunningly worded to get a results suitable for them. Yair – Safe Climate Bill. – that will keep us safe fer sure.
   Get over there and vote please.

5. Don’t miss www.quadrant.org.au/

   The science behind tricking the public

   Piers Akerman

   THE mendacious Gillard government is continuing its drive to impose a punitive carbon dioxide tax on Australians while refusing to address the key issues.

   Put aside, if you can, the lies that both Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her deputy, Treasurer Wayne Swan, told the electorate before the election.

   They are both trying to frighten the nation into accepting a new job-destroying, economy-wrecking tax they vehemently declared they would not have a bar of less than a year ago.

   and Des Moore

   Economic modelling of climate change – what does it mean?

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   In his 7 June address to the Press Club Treasurer Wayne Swan claimed that new Treasury modelling projects economic growth per head to 2050 only 0.1 per cent a year less than otherwise under a carbon (dioxide) tax. This modelling is subject to serious questioning – or should be. Although that poses difficulties because the modelling has not been released, there are some obvious questions

   And for the other side of the ‘debate’ The Aust’s editorial today Make carbon recompense adequate and equitable
   Grrrr…. I still haven’t foregiven the Aust for editorialising ‘vote for Kevin Rudd’ before THAT election – and then naming him Australian of the Year after the stimulus package surplus drain …. I wish newspapers would stop editorialising and just stick to news and opinion – that’s their job

6. I have just heard the RBA boss Glenn Stevens warning of another rate rise in August. You have to ask what planet these people come from. Our Aussie dollar is already too high – our share market teeters on the brink daily – news on TV last night spoke of many homeowners under pressure from sliding house values – how they will welcome a mortgage rate rise. Battling manufacturing companies must already be planning to cut back Australian operations in favour of cheap Asian imports – and the Govt wonders why it is slipping in polls.
   But one of the pressures on the RBA to increase rates must be the Labor Govt’s mad stimulus packages – carried on far too long – still stimulating now – running up debts our Grandchildren will be left to pay back.
   All because voters grew tired of John Howard.