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Read part of your excellent paper and all of the excuses given for forcing people to live in high-density areas,
The main unstated reason why big governments pursue this is control. By having most of the people living in a small area where they are dependent upon government run transportation and other necessities, they are dramatically easier to control.
You constantly point out how property rights are being trampled. Generally, once property rights are gone, civil rights disappear soon thereafter.
Keep up the good fight.
And there is new evidence from Australia that carbon taxes are equally ineffective.
Frank, what evidence might that be?
Nevertheless, toooootally on board that carbon taxes are the most bang for the buck, which is the underlying implication of the pre-conclusion that changing land use is expensive… And we can start tomorrow!
DS
It’s in the news:
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/axe-the-carbon-tax-keep-the-cap-20131021-2vvu6.html
The Wash Post reports that the PM said, “The carbon tax is bad for the economy and it doesn’t do any good for the environment. Despite a carbon tax of $37 a ton by 2020, Australia’s domestic emissions were going up, not down.”
Looks like Aussies, who like a cap but hate the tax, are going to repeal.
Oh, and when are we going to hit $7 gas? Gas keeps falling.
U.S. gasoline prices stayed on a steady decline Monday with a national average cost of $3.28 per gallon
“Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation have fallen to a 10-year low as coal-fired power slumped to its lowest level in a decade, a new report says….. At the same time, the share of renewable energy in the National Electricity Market (NEM) has soared beyond 12 per cent and looks set to continue rising….. In its latest quarterly emissions outlook, energy and carbon research firm RepuTex found coal power made up 74.8 per cent of the NEM in the three months ended in March – its lowest point in 10 years…. As a result, Australia’s CO2 emissions were driven down to a ten-year low, he said.”
Poor Tony was quoted directly, and stenography ensued instead of reporting.
Coal generation has been trending steadily downwards since the introduction of the carbon pricing mechanism last July, which has seen wholesale electricity prices nearly double.
With weaker demand and record-high renewable energy output, coal is feeling the pinch.
But it could bounce back once the fixed-price period for the carbon tax ends in 2015 and Australia’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) links with Europe’s carbon market.
RepuTex forecasts that when the price floats, a tonne of carbon could drop from its fixed price of $25.40 to as little as $8.
“That is a significant reduction in liability for coal generators,” Mr Grossman said.
But power generation using brown coal would “really struggle” post 2017, when federal government compensation for the industry expires, he said.
DS