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Subject: Food for thought about getting taxed even more for someone else"s carbon! Do not have to be engineer to understand. In the words of the Great Kerry Packer"I WOULD PAY MORE TAX IF I THOUGHT YOU WERE SPENDING WHAT I GIVE YOU NOW WISELY" Let"s put this into a bit of perspective for laymen! ETS is another tax. It is equal to putting up the GST to 12.5% which wouldbe unacceptable and produce an outcry. Read the following analogy and you will realize the insignificance of carbondioxide as a weather controller. Pass on to all in your address book including politicians and maybe theywill listen to their constituents, rather than vested interests which standto gain by the ETS. Here"s a practical way to understand the PM"s Carbon Pollution ReductionScheme. Imagine 1 kilometer of atmosphere and we want to get rid of the carbonpollution in it created by human activity. Let"s go for a walk along it. The first 770 meters are Nitrogen. The next 210 meters are Oxygen. That"s 980 meters of the 1 kilometer. 20 meters to go. The next 10 meters are water vapor. 10 meters left. 9 meters are argon. Just 1 more meter. A few gases make up the first bit of that last meter. The last 38 centimeters of the kilometer - that"s carbon dioxide. A bitover one foot. 97% of that is produced by Mother Nature. It"s natural. Out of our journey of one kilometer, there are just 12 millimeters left.Just over a centimeter - about half an inch. That"s the amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into theatmosphere. And of those 12 millimeters Australia puts in .18 of a millimeter. Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometer! As a hair is to a kilometer - so is Australia"s contribution to what thePM calls Carbon Pollution. Imagine Brisbane"s new Gateway Bridge , ready to be opened by the PM.It"s been polished, painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1kilometer length is surgically clean. Except that the PM says we have ahuge problem, the bridge is polluted - there"s a human hair on the roadway.We"d laugh ourselves silly. There are plenty of real pollution problems to worry about. It"s hard to imagine that Australia"s contribution to carbon dioxide in theworld"s atmosphere is one of the more pressing ones. And I can"t believethat a new tax on everything is the only way to blow that pesky hair away. Pass this on quickly while the ETS is being debated in Federal Parliament
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he Bird posted the same last year,however you are correct.Collecting taxes for their friends with power to spend and more money for the ever more consumming public service.
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I bet the gov are really stressing about haveing to fork out for all these natural disasters,wonder what new tax they come up with next !!wolfy
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Only object of a similar nature that comes to mind regarding ETS is a kangaroo tick. Drains the host to death then moves on.Sorry to turn your day to crud. Now go and gyro flying and produce some more CO2 for these donkeys. Cheers Des Garvin. going to burn another 400 litres of diesel for the day.
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If Global Warming is excrement as the alternate PM (Tones) calls it, why is every coastal shire council in Australia noting possible inundation on seaside properties on their 149 certificates , and every Insurance company on earth is factoring in a sea level rise for the same areas on their insurance policies as a direct result of global warming? Is it just revenue raising, or are they just full of it?Maybe someone can set them straight.Hoges
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