Submitted by James Purser on Mon, 30/05/2011 - 00:08
What do the following headlines have in common?
'Carbon Cate' Blanchett tells Aussies to pay up over carbon charge
Screams the Daily Telegraph
Submitted by James Purser on Sun, 06/03/2011 - 00:56
So one of the big whinges from the Opposition seems to be that any Carbon price (market driven or tax imposed) will cause the price of electricity to rise dramatically.
Leaving aside the fact that electricity prices have risen consistantly over the past few years without any sort of price on carbon, every argument has ignored the role that domestic power generation could have in offsetting any future power price rises.