by Allan Taylor
From
http://www.helium.com/items/1270584-is-solar-energy-solution-to-us-oil-dependence

No, solar energy is not the solution to reducing US oil dependency.

Considerable progress has been made in the development and use of solar energy world wide over the last decade. This is a good thing and no doubt will continue. But where does solar energy fit into the overall energy crisis problem?
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Congratulations to Paul Howes of the AWU for fingering the vested interests of the banks in promoting Emissions Trading.

But don’t forget the lawyers, accountants, auditors, regulators, bureaucrats, merchant banks, stock brokers, option traders, climate modellers, wind promoters and cynical politicians, all lined up to benefit from grovelling to green extremists and creating a new sub-prime market trading in hot air.

But we need to look further than that. Not only will carbon taxes decimate real industry, they are also completely unnecessary.

There is no scientific or empirical evidence to support the view that carbon dioxide controls climate. Just computer models like those that failed to forecast the market meltdowns.

Climate change is always occurring, and is controlled by factors far bigger than man’s activities. We are faced with an economic recession, and soon will face a food crisis caused by natural climate change and stupid policies like mandating the use of grains for car fuel instead of for food.

Australia should make ZERO offerings to the religious revival meeting in Poznan.

Stay home, reduce our flying footprint and look after real jobs producing real things not spruikers, spivs and speculators seeking to create a new financial house of credits.

Viv Forbes

Everyone is relieved that we are only getting a 5% carbon tax penalty with lots of refunds, exemptions and electoral bribes.

This is the worst possible outcome.

Better they stayed at 25% tax, which would have provoked such a revolt that even the Liberals would have objected. The whole thing would then have been abandoned at the first opportunity.

But this sneaky Fabian tax will get onto the books and we will all be trained to submit annual returns to the Greenhouse office. Then later, exemptions will be abandoned, the tax will become a permanent feature of the mess called the Australian Tax “System”, and 5% will creep to 10%, to 20%, where they wanted it in the first place.

Meanwhile, climate change will continue regardless.

And those looking forward to their Green subsidies and handouts need to remember:

“The benefit you get from Canberra is the tax you sent to Canberra, less bureaucratic charges both ways”.

Viv Forbes

By Lance Endersbee
23 October 2008

In the western nations there is a strong popular belief that mankind is causing global warming, and that natural climate change has ceased. We are told that man-made climate change will determine our future, with warmer climates, increased droughts, and rising sea levels. The media have become advocates in support of this view, and contrary debate is suppressed. Western governments now plan to “stop” climate change, an arrogant idea that has already caused enormous costs. In my view it is all a scientific scandal, a political farce, and a financial calamity. Meanwhile, certain other nations are profiting by the popular delusion in the west, notably Russia, and China.
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