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Now instead of ignoring the article or shutting your mind to the facts included in it all you true believers put aside your political bias for a change and look at the realities...

OPINION: Green policies putting Australian industry in the red
• by: Andrew Bolt
• From: The Courier-Mail
• February 20, 2014 12:00AM
HOW many more manufacturing workers must be sacked, thanks to green policies that only pretend to stop global warming?
How many of the jobless won’t be able to heat or cool their homes, with these same mad policies helping to hike power prices by 110 per cent in just five years?
And all this pain to make no difference to the world’s temperature. What a fraud.
True, the carbon tax and less-known Renewable Energy Target did not themselves kill Alcoa’s Point Henry smelter or Toyota’s Australian plants this month.
But the carbon tax alone cost Alcoa $137 million last year. How brainless is that, when its Australian smelters were already battling to survive competition from leaner competitors overseas?
The carbon tax also cost Toyota $115 a car. How stupid is that, when Australian-made cars were already struggling to compete against cheaper imports?
Apologists for the carbon tax claim it’s nothing compared to everything else smashing our manufacturers – a high dollar, green tape, crazy workplace restrictions and bloody-minded unions.
But it’s a straw breaking the back of a lot of camels.
Last year Penrice Soda quit making soda ash, sacking 60 people and leaving unpaid the $1 million it owes under the carbon tax it claims was indeed that final straw.
Grain Products Australia sacked half its 68 employees, saying the carbon tax and other green levies cost it $500,000 a year.
Packaging giant Amcor cut 160 workers at its Petrie mill, telling them the carbon tax was in part to blame, costing $400,000 in one year.
Labor is calling for at least $50m in government support after the closure of an Alcoa aluminium smelter.
Hundreds more jobs are being scrapped in Sydney's West, as global Aluminium giant Alcoa closes it's recycling plant at Yennora
In 2012, Norsk Hydro shut its Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter and sacked 300 workers, blaming not only a high dollar and low prices but saying its “long-term viability will be negatively affected by ... increasing energy costs and the carbon tax”.
None of this was an accident. When the Gillard government designed its “Strong Growth, Low Pollution” policy, carbon tax included, it produced Treasury costings showing the output of the electricity-intensive aluminium industry would fall 61.7 per cent by 2050.
And when Alcoa this week announced it would indeed close its Point Henry smelter, former chief climate commissioner Tim Flannery said this was just the price we had to pay to save us from a “filthy” planet.
Around Australia, businesses are paying this “price”.
They struggle with power bills that were once the lowest in the developed world but are now among the highest, in part because of these policies to make coal-fired electricity so expensive that we use less of it.
Electricity bills for businesses have jumped almost 80 per cent since 2009. How many jobs has that cost?
And think of all those other failed global warming schemes we’ve had to pay for – the solar hot water rebates, the Green Loans scheme, the free insulation disaster, the solar cities program, the solar power subsidies.
Think of the millions Labor lost in grants to white elephants – such as the $300 million to the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute and the $90 million for Geodynamics, whose shareholders include Tim Flannery, a spruiker of the geothermal technology that proved a dud here.
You’d weep at the waste.
No wonder many people now demand we stop this vandalism, especially with unemployment now hitting 6 per cent.
Australians have already voted in a new Abbott Government promising to scrap the carbon tax, although Labor and the Greens still use their numbers in the Senate to save it.
The Government this week also announced business leader Dick Warburton, a sceptic, would head a review on the Renewable Energy Target.
This RET forces electricity companies to source some of their supplies from “green” power such as expensive solar and wind farms, costing the average family $102 a year.
But few Australians yet realise these schemes aren’t just unaffordable but mad, making zero difference to the temperature they are meant to lower.
Well, not exactly zero. Victoria University’s Professor Roger Jones, a warmist, figured the carbon tax could lower the world’s temperature in 2100 by just 0.0038 of one degree.
Other experts think it would been even less, since the world’s temperature hasn’t risen now in 16 years, suggesting our emissions don’t make as much difference as once thought.
But consider. Think of the thousands of companies struggling to keep afloat. Think of the sacked workers and your soaring bills.
We’re suffering like this so we can cut the world’s temperature by so little that no one could even measure it?
Mad. This global warming craze has destroyed not just our industries but our reason.

And you know mantra that the UN climate change proposals are all about global wealth redistribution... I know you know, you posted exactly that information ages ago.

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And you know mantra that the UN climate change proposals are all about global wealth redistribution... I know you know, you posted exactly that information ages ago.

I don't remember saying that, but I could have - so I'll take your word for it. A modest global wealth distribution wouldn't be a bad thing, but we know there's always someone at the top skimming off the cream.

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And you know mantra that the UN climate change proposals are all about global wealth redistribution... I know you know, you posted exactly that information ages ago.

I don't remember saying that, but I could have - so I'll take your word for it. A modest global wealth distribution wouldn't be a bad thing, but we know there's always someone at the top skimming off the cream.

Yes mantra you quoted the IPCC agenda from their website and explained what it was really all about.

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Carbon Tax proceeds of crime.

Never in the history of Parliament has cash money changed hands to obtain the vote of a sitting member. Political lobbying uses the promise of good to the people will be delivered in return for the Members vote.

$Millions in punter money was paid over in cash into the business account of the Green Party in return for its members vote.

Made to appear as punter funding for the Greens Party own funding scheme for construction of clean green electricity. Thereby not being bribery.

Government provisioning a private funding scheme using punter money comes with checks and balances. Application Form for the Greens Funding to clean green electricity not easily visible. Monies taken from the Punter to fund Greens selected beneficiary requires accounts be kept, as does any Government payment for a purpose.

These accountings not appear in Governments end of year accountings. It not known where The Greens keep such accounting to show the conditions of funding were complied with or were used by The Greens for other purpose.

Until production of the accounts the Greens Party is relying upon the Coal-ition to turn a blind eye to bribery. Despite the Coal-ition's merry hell over the Carbon Tax.

The Aussie punters not Politicians put show to a liar who was leader, and a criminal who was member. That they both be party in vote purchasing by cash transaction is not surprising.

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Seems Aussie has been fatally attracted to Clive...