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When the best solution Government can call upon is to introduce a tax one must wonder... On Top Gear I noted we now have a 10 cylinder v10 with twin tubo chargers ..a station wagon that beats a 911... we have planes boats and cars and their manufactures happy to catter for the bigger is better mentality and while all this is let pass we the mugs will pay more for our energy... irrespective of why the Earth is getting hotter I doubt if humans will change their behaviour and pointing to the horror of doing nothing wont change that...
The fact is we now have a new business with many getting their meal ticket from involvement in the issue and it is clear that many lobby using the horror of doing nothing as oil for their band wagon..
I doubt if Al GOre had anything in mind other than the opportunity of exploiting fear to make millions... on last check his house used $36,000 in energy and still no solar panels (so I believe).
The nueclear power lobby certainly are happy to help with their clean efficient remedy..remember when Mr John Howard can out, having never comented upon GW or any related issue he said words to the effect..We must appreciate we have GW so we need to consider NP and a week later some organisation comes out with where all the NP stations would be around the country... politicians only speak when they are lobbied and I suspect someone had their hand up the back of his shirt when he spoke on a matter he never before offerred any input...
Remeber the adds ... by a Marine bioligist lady..the barrier reef is going under so we must go for NP .. who paid for that add I wonder the marine life on the reef or some other bottom feeders.
Still on the possitive it is a new industry and lots of folk feel they are doing something for a better future or as they see it any future at all ... but in all matters if one follows the money one gets an insite... Al Gore certainly followed the money and left big carbon footprints for all to see.
But a tax ..how lame rich folk wont care cause it is the mugs at the bottom who will end up paying.
The science has little to do with it in my view and it seems that many are very eager to grad the science they find supports their addgendah and that is always dangerous as science is then corrupted.
alex
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