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Old 18th Nov 2011, 03:11
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teresa green
 
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The biggest amount of carbon released is caused by wood. Now you blokes all know, that as you fly each day over OZ there are limitless bush fires going at any given time, I believe the CSIRO puts it at around 22,000 a year, add to that millions of cattle and sheep emissions, and then industry, well its pointless only pointing to industry as the villain is it not? Does anybody really believe that simply taxing industry is going to solve the problem? The NT is fired every year always has been, the locals have been doing it for thousands of years, they say Australia has to burn to reproduce flora and fauna, they probably know better than us, and they are probably right, but like everything there is a price to pay, that is a increase in carbon. You OS blokes know everytime you go to a Asian city, (not HKG or NRT et al) there are trucks that are 25 years old and over, there are Put Puts, everybody is on a 2 stroke, the place stinks of diesel, fuel, and exhaust, but we are going to save the world with a tax and they are going to follow, crap, they don't have the money to follow or the inclination. Its fine for people like the Minister for Goldman Sachs (Turnbull) to encourage this crap, he is going to, along with his banker mates, make a motza out of carbon credit trade offs, (you did not really believe he wants to save the birds and bees did you) but for the average Australian worker, already struggling with the cost of living, and the cost of power rising so much, its really going to be a ball tearer this tax, and for what?
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