the black hole in gillard?s plan

Andrew once again finds a fatal flaw in another dud socialist policy from the party known as ALP.



http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

Here's a great, fatal hole in the Gillard Government's carbon dioxide plan, as conceded by its own documents.

Half the emission cuts are going to come from buying credits overseas.

Let's overlook the basic fact that a proper overseas market in credits barely exists and is ripe for rorting, as the European Union has already found.

Assume, very conservatively, that those credits will trade at $30 a tonne. That means that the 160 million tonnes of emissions Gillard promises to be cutting by 2020 will see Australia send more than $3 billion a year out of the country to places such as China - or Nigeria.

That's money the Government will not have to use as compensation for the prices rises.

That's money gone, for nothing.