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Forget the Carbon Tax - try this?
Forget about a Carbon Tax if you want to help the environment, my way allows for a reduction in fossil fuelled electricity, a process that allows all to participate if they feel they need to do something, will harm no one when the Climate Change science finally wakes the Government up to they can no longer fool their electorates. and is a low cost alternative.
I suggested the Govt have green loans available for people to convert to Green housing as much as possible. Now my rationale for this is simple it would help people reduce household costs, nothing to do with a Air tax. The idea is simple people convert the loan is to be repaid via a loan levy on the individual or family, and if they want to sell the home, then the loan must be paid off out of the sale price. The sale price will automatically be higher as it has these conversions in it.
This way those that want to green themselves pay for the privilege, and those that don't aren't slugged unfairly. It sounds too simplistic, and it is, there is a lot more to it, but it is the way a Government can do something proactive for the greens and they can have a no interest term on the loan and then a interest rate on the remainder after say 3 years of the loan.
This encourages people to repay quicker, does not cost the Government a huge amount as the monies themselves are being repaid rather than just handouts and the Government has no reason to impose great big new taxes on us.
But I emphasize, this is not about Climate Change, this is about a more cost efficient alternative for the consumer, even if it is only for a period of 6 months in the year, it is savings. If they did this to schools during school holidays etc the schools could earn money by selling back to the Grid.
As technologies change, it will not be effected by doing this, it is a win win alternative.
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Comment by Kevin Hicks on April 18, 2011 at 3:03am -
Jeff you will get no argument from me, I have been pushing this line since The Carbon (CO2) Tax was announced. Our only hope is someone forced to leave their seat or someone in the ALP or and Indie or Green, changing their stance and standing against this current wave of Communism threatening our Country.
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Comment by Kevin Hicks on April 18, 2011 at 2:52am
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Colin the people of the Melbourne electorate thought they were electing a Green candidate, but it turns out he is a Red candidate that saw the Green Party as a way of achieving his purposes see http://justgroundsonline.com/profiles/blogs/adam-bandt-is-well-red. The Green Party will be a Communist Party by the time Mr Bandt has shafted Boob Brown and taken over the Party as he had planned
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Comment by Laurel V on April 12, 2011 at 3:17am -
REAL green buildings like strawbale and mudbrick and using recycled items are...
as near banned as made impossible to build thanks to big industry/union ules and regs
you can build multistory mud brick for eg.
you wouldnt need such huge loans and passive well placed buildings use low to no heat cooling either.
and I used to support unions, having been a low paid badly treated employee, now..hmm.
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Comment by Colin J Ely on April 10, 2011 at 11:40am -
Kevin
The Electorate of Melbourne elected a 'Greens' representative at the last federal election. I think that they should be erecting wind turbines in Royal Park and putting solar panels on all the University and other public buildings in the electorate.
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