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