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Former Liberal leader and dodged bullet John Hewson joins the carbon cult:
What we’ve got to do is make it a significant shift in the structure of our economy and the easiest way to do that, the most obvious economic solution to doing that is to put a price on carbon. Once there is a price put on carbon so that people are costed for the impact they have by way of carbon emissions on our atmosphere, then the whole industrial and social structure will respond … I think it will be the single biggest economic and social revolution this country’s probably seen in its history.
That was a few days ago, on the ABC. Those views may not have been appreciated by certain groups connected to Hewson. Monday:
Dr John Hewson has resigned as Chairman of the Touring Car Entrants Group (TEGA), the body that owns 75 per cent of V8 Supercars Australia.
(Via Anthony L.)
UPDATE. Hewson, a budding biodiesel baron, could find this interesting:
A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions may be contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.
Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and corn have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save.
These Carbonistas are idiots if they actually beleive a price on Carbon will change behaviours. Recently got a return flight from Adelaide to Sydney and Virgin.com.au asked if i wanted to offset my flight. I clicked it out of interest. the offset charge was $1.69. yup, i can really see that changing my behaviour on a $100 flight.
Idiots the lot of them. Carbon taxes do nothing to change bahaviours, all they do is give us the mistaken belief that we have paid for our sins. And at $1.69, i guess i am supposed to belive the sin was not that great!
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Posted by aguycalledbrad on 2007 09 25 at 09:00 PM • permalink
How about taxing immigrants from the 3rd world, since they will consume more once they arrive in the 1st world?
And tax children, since they consume and will grow up to consume more and have little consumers of their own.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 09 25 at 09:02 PM • permalink
People, we’re carbon. These idiots want to tax our flesh now.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 09 25 at 09:14 PM • permalink
Carbon no longer free? You can’t be serious. Are they proposing that the next time I fill my car up with gas I’m going to have to pay for it? That electricity will no longer stream into my home without charge? Fucking hell! The next thing you know they’ll be asking me to pay for my fiancee’s engagement diamond.
Bastards!
Former Liberal leader and dodged bullet John Hewson joins the carbon cult
Ah, but there’s a good reason for that:
JOHN HEWSON: I’m involved in several businesses responding to the challenge of climate change. Building bio-diesel plants, for example. We’re in the process of building the largest bio-diesel plant in the world. Bio-diesel is only in its infancy as an industry. We’ve done this without any government subsidy, government assistance. I’m involved in a business that makes energy efficient light bulbs. The Government has mandated all incandescent bulbs will be banned beyond 2009. Mandation is something I don’t normally agree with but in this case…
Mandation (is that even a word?) is something I don’t normally agree with but, hey, if there’s even a slim chance I can profit from it…
Interesting discussion on how best to use your sizable tax surplus. ‘Course, I don’t think governments should run a surplus and if it happens, the money should be returned to the people from whom it was squeezed, but what do I know. As the once and future Bill Clinton told us, sure, he could return the surplus tax revenue to us taxpayers, but then he couldn’t be sure that we’d spend it “the right way”.
BTW, I predict this whole biofuels scheme will evolve into one of the biggest messes we’ve ever created for ourselves.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 25 at 09:33 PM • permalink
This global warbling thing is looking more and more like a cult. Its followers all need to be deprogrammed; I suggest they be transported to Antarctica and left there with the message “This is the world without global warming. The world you want, remember?”
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 09 25 at 09:46 PM • permalink
Dr John the CarbonTripper must have a line on a yurt development plan for the outskirts of Sydney.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2007 09 25 at 10:00 PM • permalink
”…To link it with his recent comments on carbon pricing is a cheap shot…”
Of course it (his resignation) had NOTHING to do with a massive conflict of interest?
RIIIIGHT.
Posted by Jay Santos on 2007 09 25 at 10:03 PM • permalink
In the transcript linked, one Eva Cox says, in connection with the budget surplus, “I want to spend it carefully and wisely. I want to make Australia fairer and more civil, because I just think we’ve lost a lot of our social connections.”
Well, Eva, for the paltry sum of one million dollars, I’ll fly to Australia and be civil to you for a whole year. Doors opened, cloaks thrown over mud puddles, groceries carried into the kitchen, cars washed – you name it, kid!
Ah. I see this bit of socialese must be translated for all you right wing flying nut death monkey beasts:
Once there is a price put on carbon (productivity) so that people (the most productive) are costed (??) for the impact they have by way of carbon emissions on our atmosphere (their self-generated wealth is distributed to the non-productive have nots), then the whole industrial and social structure will respond (this whole evil free market capitalist structure will come crashing down).
Understand now?
Hewson will have to prize my diamonds from my cold dead hands, er fingers.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 09 25 at 10:21 PM • permalink
“Once there is a price put on carbon so that people are costed for the impact they have by way of carbon emissions on our atmosphere, then the whole industrial and social structure will respond”
Film of industrial and social structure responding to Hewson plan.
Also, more exciting footage of Ahmadinejad and Columbia University President Lee Bollinger in New York!
I hope this works out as well for Dr. John as his last tax plan.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 25 at 10:36 PM • permalink
#10: Are you kiddin’? We’re way ahead of this bozo.
#30 Is there anything, anything at all, that Paco Industries isn’t involved in?
If I may speak for our Dear Leader….NO.
The heart of Paco Worldwide Enterprises, Inc. is…well just as our motto indicates…We are a hands on organization. In that
steamstream of thought…Anything and everything we can get our hands on, the better.
#35 I’m beginning to fear Paco Industries El Cid, and I’ll explain why.
It’s a huge, international conglomerate. That bit isn’t the scary bit. It’s that it’s Right Wing, and therefore under the control of Karl Rove. But that’s not the scariest bit.
The scariest bit is that it must be evil, and have the view that all dissent must be crushed. Therefore, if I think something that the Dark Lord doesn’t like, I’ll be snatched from my bed in the middle of the night.
[/moonbat]
We’re also on top of that whole bio-mass thing.
Whole world . . . coulda been
Willie StarkPaco . . .
OT: the bruvvers are marching in Melbourne. This morning’s dead-tree Age confidently predicted a turnout of 30,000. The online version says 15,000. Real number anybody’s guess. No confirmed sightings yet of kiddies in strollers.
- Dr Hewson,
Could you please explain the price impact your carbon pricing scheme will have on a birthday cake.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 09 25 at 11:46 PM • permalink
Ok I’ve got a half burnt match here that I’m willing to let go for half price. As I understand it if you bury it at least ten feet deep (aprox. 3.3 meters) in thirty thousand centuries it should be sequestered in a satisfactory manner. Now according to Algore it should be buried in the equatorial rain forest in order to refrain from its being caught up in the boreal carbon replenishment cycle. (Commonly referred to as ‘Forest Fires’). Transportation will be provided by the purchaser.
This advertisement has been peer reviewed in the Journal of Politically Aligned Conservation Organizations
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Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 09 25 at 11:56 PM • permalink
#50 Infidel – Hmmm…John Hewson: I remember him well from listening to him (on rare occasions) during his stint at MGSM.
Some pointers to the man …
6 May 2002 – Dr John Hewson appointed Director of Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) Scroll down to September (no link to article)
Professor John Hewson (MGSM): wrote an opinion piece, saying that he can’t help but feel that to some extent the events in remembrance of September 11 have been manipulated to facilitate the presidential desire for what George Bush believes is a justified invasion of Iraq, Australian Financial Review, 13 September, 2002. Scroll down to September. (no link available)
John Hewson Corporate Bully – Telstra and Caltex strike back at Hewson’s ratings agency – April 2003.
The curious case of Dr John Henson – Feb 2004. From this story…… if (only) he had his way….. and that about sums it up!Enough – these articles say it all. Does anyone care what Hewson says or does?
At last, they plan to tax the air that I breathe
In the transcript linked, one Eva Cox says, in connection with the budget surplus, “I want to spend it carefully and wisely. I want to make Australia fairer and more civil, because I just think we’ve lost a lot of our social connections.”
Eva Cox is an elderly extreme-left spinster feminist and single-mother whom the ABC contacts whenever they need a social commentator. She is an academic.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 09 26 at 01:54 AM • permalink
- #38 Dave S. –
People, we’re carbon. These idiots want to tax our flesh now.
Speak for yourself. I’m a Horta.
I’d bet 99% of the usual commenters immediately understood and laughed at Dave S’s comment. Which tells us we all grew up watching Star Trek after school. All things considered, a nice preparation for life.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 09 26 at 05:12 AM • permalink
Labor recruit unpopular with women: poll
The footballer’s wife also knows SFA about AWAs …
C/- Auntie FFS (& Bolta)
- Ahem. I say. Is this one of those right wing blog-thingys that refuses to engage with Australian Politics? I suppose you’re going to mill about and hurl some vile, bile flavoured abuse, and then adjourn to the pub for some sort of gotcha knees-up. I know about you lot, and I’ve got my virtual eye on you, so there!
(MarkB)
- This would be the perennially bitter reliably Howard hating Dr Hewson the ABC wheels out whenever they want to appear balanced.
Dr Hewson 2003:
Who knows what goes on in John Howard’s mind. His middle name is Winston – I guess there is an element of that… But I’ve got to tell you, I don’t think the US alliance is worth this. I think we would still have a very strong alliance if we weren’t there. Being a lap-dog to the United States or as he says, deputy-sherrif to the United States is an outrageous concept
no bandwagon is safe from this manPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 26 at 08:41 AM • permalink
Hold the presses- everyone’s favourite Wiccan Road Rager has turned up like the proverbial bad dinar in the commentary at the Meeja Witch-Hunt site, contributing his valuable insight into the Phat Phucks barefaced bollocks- apparently Catallexy is a neocon tool of the VRWC, not a mild centrist/libertarian group blog that veers to the right about as much as Conrod Straight.
I’m surprised he’s got time for such activities with all the action he’d be scoring through Lava Life.
#57—At last, they plan to tax the air that I breathe
Oh, New York City had that, or something much like it, covered long ago. In addition to taxing income, sales, use and property, NYC taxes “space”. If you occupy “space” in a hotel room, you pay a tax additional to the customary state/local sales taxes. If you occupy “space” in the city for business purposes, you pay a tax—additional to the customary income, property and use taxes—for the “privilege” of doing business in New York. If you rent “space” in which to conduct that business, you pay an additional tax for that. I don’t know why they haven’t as yet instituted taxing the air we breathe (i.e., a carbon tax), but I’m confident it’s high on their agenda.
I can just hear the truthers’ reaction to the film linked by Paco #25: “Now that’s how a building collapses when it hasn’t been wired for controlled demolition by Chimpy McBushHitler and his evil flying monkey minions!”
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 26 at 12:56 PM • permalink
where people are costed
Costed? Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick, what language is that supposed to be?
Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 09 26 at 02:20 PM • permalink
Jeez, I figured Niall the Numbnuts would have been done in by revenge seeking Vietnamese hitmen by now.
On the other hand, it is in the stars and portents that Zombies still walk the Earth . . . . . . .
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 09 27 at 12:37 AM • permalink
I don’t care how much greenhouse gas a biofuel produces as long as we can grow it in Queensland instead of importing it from Saudi Arabia.
—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 09 27 at 06:48 AM • permalink
Jeebus, is Dr Nuisance suffering attention (from others) deficit disorder?