Before governments can improve oil security for their people they need to learn how markets work, or their policies will do more harm than good. This submission discusses the effects of suppliers, consumers, traders and governments in the oil market, why “Peak Oil” is a mirage which recedes as you approach it, how methane hydrates may provide the next energy revolution, how governments reduce oil security, why biofuels and alternative energy will not fuel our transport fleet, the hydrogen myth and why “Hands Off” is the best policy.

Read the full submission [PDF, 49 KB] to the Queensland State government.

Attached is the Carbon Sense Coalition’s submission to Queensland State Government’s Climate Smart 2050 proposals, Yesterday’s Visions. [PDF, 96KB]

The editor,

Did you know there is a “St. Andrews Sustainability Institute”? (I suppose before global warming alarmism became a fungible activity, their role was recovery of – er, lost balls.) See this link:

St Andrews golf course ‘could sink into sea by 2050’

Now, I’d like to see a “Cinque Ports Sustainability Institute”, which will show that rising sea levels will restore 14th century Rye (now stranded inland on the Romney Marshes, about 5 miles from the Sussex beaches of southern England) to its status as a sea port, doing what it used to do best — smuggle in French Brandy and Burgundy wines under the noses of HM Customs! A positive effect for catastrophic global warming at last!

Any takers?

Malcolm Ross
Annandale, Virginia, USA

The Editor,

Currently 99.96% of the atmosphere is made up of the non-carbon dioxide components.

If we don’t mend our ways, by 2050 that number will plunge all the way down to 99.94%.

Love your stuff.

Jack Sturgess
Kooyong, Victoria.

Dear Premier and Members,

The Carbon Sense Coalition was formed in Queensland by Australians, including many Queenslanders who have been closely involved, some at senior levels, in the backbone industries and public service activities of the Sunshine State. Some still are. Some have been participants, commentators and observers of the Queensland political scene for longer than most members of the current parliament.

They are all motivated by concern at the biggest politically generated threat to every Queensland industry, to the outlook for jobs for our kids, to the cost of living, and to the continued flow of revenue to the State. That threat is an Emissions Trading System, its carbon taxes and all the asset destruction that will flow from it.

Read the full document here [PDF, 70KB]

I have noticed in the news that after twenty years of slapping a hefty price on carbon dioxide emissions, Norway’s carbon emissions have increased by 15%. Not that it matters, as carbon dioxide is not a pollutant anyway.

And China and India don’t even want to discuss carbon dioxide. But when they do they insist that, as it is we who are the carbon dioxide enthusiasts, we should pay.

But here we are, with a credit crisis and politicians panicking about infrastructure, they are tied in knots over how to go about imposing a carbon tax on the population.

The futility of carbon dioxide taxation has been ably and practically demonstrated by Norway. But our lemming like politicians on both sides of the house are as enthusiastic as ever to impose yet another tax on the public.

Why don’t they be honest and just say “We intend to close Australia down.” Rudd wants to close us down in 2010 and Turnbull in 2012 or so. They both deserve to be bushed. (No pun intended).

Then we can select at random some sensible officials out of the phone book, and get on with the job of growing food and mining products for which the world is scrambling to acquire.

Ronald Kitching

August 25, 1999

WASHINGTON, DC—High summer temperatures and ever-increasing levels of U.S. beverage consumption are causing ice cubes across the nation to melt at “an alarmingly unprecedented rate,” the U.S. Department of Consumer Affairs reported Tuesday.

More on this story here.