Why should we hamstring our industry when our emissions are a minute fraction of total emissions?

This is where your blinkere din your perfect world.

The only real thing that you can cut consumption is electricity.

So with everything else you need to survive how do you cut your food consumption, how does a company that uses products from a range of ETS effected companies charge less or the same for its product when it is paying more for its goods. Think house construction car construction.

A mining company just got drilled with Gillards mining tax, they will now be liable for ETS as very energy intense to mine and transport ore. China pays more for its ore, meaning our car manafacturers pay more for the processed ore. How do I cut my consumption on that??

How much will electrical companents go up as many have mined minerals in them, again dug up by mining companies now paying and ETS passed onto the end consumer.

That glass table just cost more because turning sand into glass is a massively energy intense process so all you glass goods go up, that includes windows in houses which I forgot to include earlier.

everything you touch or wear will go up, farmers who produce cotton will pay more to produce sell for more to china who charge more to our importers who yes will charge more to the consumer??


There are so many factors that you seem to overlook, wether your a bit simple or just trying to push labor policy I don't know. But rest assured an ETS will hammer middle and low income earners, send uncompetitive industry offshore, cost jobs force famillies into bankruptcy have households living in the street.

is that the country you want to live in??? All to save a .4% reduction in carbon??? it is just illogical.

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That is not the point of a tax on carbon. The tax itself is the goal. The funds raised should be used to reduce other taxes, not wasted.