It's not possible to make steel without generating carbon dioxide. No carbon tax can change that.
It's not possible to make cement or brew beer without generating carbon dioxide.
It's not possible to generate electricity using brown coal, black coal, diesel or gas without generating carbon dioxide.
It's is not possible to run a car, truck, train, tractor, ship or plane on oil, gas, diesel or petrol without generating carbon dioxide. Even electric cars, trains and elevators will get energy mainly from coal or gas.
Cattle, sheep, goats and pigs cannot live without generating carbon dioxide.
The Australian government plans to reduce the production of harmless carbon dioxide by 5% (or maybe 25%) by 2050, despite increasing population.
Which of the above industries will cop the carbon chop?
Or is the carbon tax just about grabbing a new source of government revenue?
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.
