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  1. Token Funder

    Carbon tax

    I've debated the odd creationist on-line over the years and I must say that the quality of some of the anti-science, political-zealotry-dressed-up-as-policy-debate in this thread and makes them look like reasonable people in comparison. Most of them can make a decent fist of pretending to...
  2. Token Funder

    Carbon tax

    Great post...couldn't agree more.
  3. Token Funder

    Carbon tax

    That's what you have Treasury forecasts for. Still likely to be in surplus 2012/13. Less trouble than we are now had they not. I would have thought that is self-evident. ABC wasn't American. Good old white-shoe brigade throwback Eddie Groves was as Aussie as they come (as was chairwoman...
  4. Token Funder

    Carbon tax

    The science is effectively settled and has been for some time. There is no material disagreement about the science among actual experts in the field. The question of what policy responses are most appropriate is a reasonable one, but the noise here and elsewhere around the science simply...
  5. Token Funder

    Carbon tax

    According to Minerals Council CEO and cartoon superhero model, Mitch Hooke, it is soooo large it will bring about the death of the minerals sector and, reading between the lines, simultanously remove all the bubbles from beer, making the national beverage flat and lifeless for evermore. I...
  6. Token Funder

    Carbon tax

    That's an easy one. You're getting compensated for an average increase. If you can source cheaper power/products and lower your costs to below the average increase, you pocket the difference. This, in turn, creates a financial incentive for suppliers to abate their emmissions and...
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