[Shiraz (Ray)]

all I know is that the carbon tax did exactly what it was supposed to do for me. Power went up so much that it forced me to get off my butt and do something. We worked out that it was cost effective to fork out for a new more efficient fridge, replaced a lot of gas guzzling lights with LEDs and chose energy efficient appliances for a couple of other replacements. Also put a small amount of solar on the roof to help with aircon in summer. Nett effect was a large reduction in power bills for an overall reduction in living costs and reduced carbon footprint - and all for absolutely no reduction in living standards - yahoo. Beats me why so many people seemed to buy the line that it was bad/evil/catastrophic or whatever.