tonegunman1 wrote on May 26
th, 2011 at 1:36pm:
Wally wrote on May 26
th, 2011 at 9:06am:
Let the big polluters pollute our atmosphere for free.
That is good for those who like to inhale their left over rubbish.
Big polluters that the government is going to save us from headed by power generation entities which untill a recent spate of wanting to unload them were 100% owned entities of state governments.
They are only going to target the top 1000 biggest polluters when in fact these companies are simply going to pass those charges on to consumers.
As for inhaling their left over rubbish, governments both fed and state are busy shovelling coal (at all time high rates) onto ships to be burnt o/s and contribute to the JOINT atmosphere emmissions without paying a single cent for the carbon emitted. The contribution here is to increase globally CO2 emmissions with our fossil fuels while subsidising their emmissions at the rate of 100%. Mitigation of carbon is only of any effect if there is global reductions.
If you believe the burning of fossil fuels is evil then you should not just support putting a price on it. That is the same idealogical argument as saying child prostitution is OK as long as people pay sufficiently for it. If you are serious that not only involves the non use of all power derived from fossil fuels but all petrochemicals and all oil derivitives as well. You could allways go back to burning whale oil. If you did that then you would "save the world" provided there was no ecological tipping point that we're already past and that someone elsewhere in the world does not take up your slack.
But you won't because you're a bunch of hypocrites.
if the science was so true... why can we not hear the screams to close down all the mines.... the very ones the scientist blame...
have you heard anyone call for that tone?????????????,,
we are desperate dont forget only a decade....
why is it alright to sell this stuff.????????. the very thing they want to tax the hell out of us for using.... yet its the fact that the govt is selling the bloody stuff.....that puts us in the position...supposedly of damaging the planet.