Consumers will be Creamed in the Corrupt Carbon Credit Casino

At the end of this feed chain...

, --August 4, 2013

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Some people think an Emissions Trading Scheme is superior to a Carbon Tax.
It’s time to expose the corrupt carbon credit casino. In this casino, producers are forced to pay for emitting the same harmless, colourless, non-polluting, natural gas of life that every human produces in his lungs with every breath. At the same time, other smarties are paid to promise they will not emit the gas they intended to emit tomorrow. In the middle, empires of bankers, brokers, speculators, lawyers, auditors and regulators wax rich by clipping every transaction, and an army of bureaucrats and academics feed on the government windfall. And at the end of this feed chain, innocent consumers get creamed. All of this confirms that we live in a political madhouse. Viv Forbes, Rosewood, Qld, Australia

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Viv Forbes——

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.