Energy Efficiency

Last night (Oct 20th) I saw an advertisement where a ‘coal miner’ used various tactics to intimidate, reason with or do a snow-job to convince the public that jobs were at stake by meeting the ETS (emission trading scheme). What is clearly an initiative by the Coal Industry, they want to only pay for emissions [...]

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I just listened to economic editor Ross Gittins (Oct 21st) take on why the Reserve Bank ‘need to put up the rates’ and was astounded at how ‘domesticated’ his explanation on the need to increase interest rates. There was no mention of artificial growth in the economy by the federal government’s stimulus package; he just [...]

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Has anyone questioned how the American, United Kingdom and Australian economies have all collapsed, the banks have lost billions, consumer spending is shrinking and rather than savings, debt is the number one concern for the majority of the populace, yet the stock market is suddenly finding all these investors with money to invest / burn [...]

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Ross Gittins – the Herald’s Economics Editor – wrote an insightful article (19th Oct) in which he rightly asked ‘can the Rudd Government be trusted with our money; is it the big-spending, high-taxing Government the Opposition claims; is this Labor doing what it always does, spending too freely and racking up big deficits and debt’ [...]

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Emissions Trading Scheme is best described by the last word … scheme; looking in the dictionary, scheme is also a described as a plot; when someone is said to be scheming or plotting, it is in the negative connotation. It doesn’t matter where or of which political party or vested bureaucratic utterance, there is a [...]

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