All we have been hearing is big polluters would be better off under direct action blah blah. Well suck it up, they are better off under a carbon tax.

AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows.

The brown coal generators' stronger-than-expected financial position yesterday forced the Gillard government to abandon its attempts to pay some of them to close down by 2020, infuriating environmental groups and the Greens.

Giving up on the negotiations frees at least $1 billion in the budget from 2013-14.

It triggered demands from the Greens that the government reconsider $4.5 billion worth of compensation yet to be paid to the companies on top of $1 billion already handed over.

more
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-tax-leaves-big-polluters-better-off-20120905-25exz.html

Time to wind back the compensation. It looks like the Greens were right again.

We have numbers,

Here:

Coalition $1.18, Labor $4.50

http://centrebet.com/#Sports/Event/2062830

progressiveslol wrote on Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:38am:

All we have been hearing is big polluters would be better off under direct action blah blah. Well suck it up, they are better off under a carbon tax. AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows. The brown coal generators' stronger-than-expected financial position yesterday forced the Gillard government to abandon its attempts to pay some of them to close down by 2020, infuriating environmental groups and the Greens. Giving up on the negotiations frees at least $1 billion in the budget from 2013-14. It triggered demands from the Greens that the government reconsider $4.5 billion worth of compensation yet to be paid to the companies on top of $1 billion already handed over. more http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-tax-leaves-big-polluters-better-off-20120905-25exz.html

No - all we have been hearing is that the carbon price is the end of the world as we know it.

Tony's days are numbered

rabbitoh07 wrote on Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:35pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Sep 6th, 2012 at 6:38am: All we have been hearing is big polluters would be better off under direct action blah blah. Well suck it up, they are better off under a carbon tax. AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows. The brown coal generators' stronger-than-expected financial position yesterday forced the Gillard government to abandon its attempts to pay some of them to close down by 2020, infuriating environmental groups and the Greens. Giving up on the negotiations frees at least $1 billion in the budget from 2013-14. It triggered demands from the Greens that the government reconsider $4.5 billion worth of compensation yet to be paid to the companies on top of $1 billion already handed over. more http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-tax-leaves-big-polluters-better-off-20120905-25exz.html No - all we have been hearing is that the carbon price is the end of the world as we know it. Tony's days are numbered

So are yours... and mine. So are everyone's. The number of this day is seven!

Its not scientific to place a tax on the chaotic interactions of the elements of the universe...why would an impersonal inanimate universe tax itself...this is a neurosis... :D :D