Given that we don't have any alternatives for base load power, we can't just switch power sources when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow... so what the Gillard Govt fails to tell you when it explains how "price impacts" will form incentives, is that if there is no alternative, you either pay the money, or go without! Me thinks the latter will be where we end up. Gone will be the days of hot showers, heating, cooling... jobs! We will necessarily have to revert to dark age living (and the ailments, diseases and shorter life expectancies that come with it), and for what?
A decrease in CO2 emissions by 5% (Labor's proposed reduction) of 1.5% (Austraila's total contribution to CO2 levels) of 0.8 ppm (the amount of CO2 thought to be in the atmosphere as a result of man's activities)! For those of you whose calculators can't compute figures this small, even if the climate modelling is correct (bahahahahhahaha!), that is an approximate reduction of 0.0006 parts per million of atmospheric CO2. Convert this to an amount in degrees, and it is practically negligible, at best... and will take 1000 years minimum to achieve, according to Labor mouthpiece and Climate Commissioner (and neo pagan of the year) Tim Flannary.
If you enjoy paying $18000 for your hot water system, not including supplemental energy at Carbon Tax prices when the sun don't shine, then by all means. Just keep in mind that when this new "innovation" Gillard keeps promising eventually comes, you'll have to rip out the old inefficient panels for new and better ones, and pay China (who manufactures the panels using Australian coal to generate power) all over again.
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