Comments on: Keane: We’re all missing the point http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/keane-were-all-missing-the-point/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:03:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/16/keane-were-all-missing-the-point/#comment-896 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-896 Wong and Rudd’s scheme massively increases government intervention in the economy. Its first year alone it involves the Government taxing industry $11.5 billion and then deciding who best to reward and/or prop up with the proceeds. <br /><br />Leftist state planning is back with a vengeance.<br /><br />What point is being missed?<br /><br />Oh yeah: We're all going to die! We're all going to die!<br /><br />If the Greens could remove their grand political ploys and stop pretending that Australia could in any way, especially through an ETS, influence atmospheric CO2 by less than a fraction of 1% and instead keep to their local acting home grown commonsense policies they might actually influence policy on the environment in a positive direction.<br /><br />That Bernard has pointed out some of the structural flaws in this Rudd/Wong ETS and even suggested in his other article that "If this is going to be the ETS, it’s time to ditch it", are grounds for even greater concern.<br /><br />Makes me think that Shergold's advice if followed by a re-elected Coalition may indeed have been far more productive than the media schmoozle and schmooze that quintessentially is Rudd Wong and Rudd’s scheme massively increases government intervention in the economy. Its first year alone it involves the Government taxing industry $11.5 billion and then deciding who best to reward and/or prop up with the proceeds.

Leftist state planning is back with a vengeance.

What point is being missed?

Oh yeah: We’re all going to die! We’re all going to die!

If the Greens could remove their grand political ploys and stop pretending that Australia could in any way, especially through an ETS, influence atmospheric CO2 by less than a fraction of 1% and instead keep to their local acting home grown commonsense policies they might actually influence policy on the environment in a positive direction.

That Bernard has pointed out some of the structural flaws in this Rudd/Wong ETS and even suggested in his other article that “If this is going to be the ETS, it’s time to ditch it”, are grounds for even greater concern.

Makes me think that Shergold’s advice if followed by a re-elected Coalition may indeed have been far more productive than the media schmoozle and schmooze that quintessentially is Rudd

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