Australia - John Howard "Rules Out" Carbon Tax, "Considering" Carbon Trading - ABC

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Prime Minister John Howard says he is considering how Australia could participate in a carbon trading scheme, but he does not support a carbon tax. Mr Howard set-up a task force on carbon trading last year and will receive its interim report this week.

Mr Howard says he is prepared to look at a system where there is a price on carbon so emissions can be traded, but he is against a new tax.

"I am not going to embrace an approach to climate change that damages our great resource industries," he said. "There's a danger if you start talking in an arbitrary fashion about carbon taxes that you will do that.

"There is a very significant difference between a crude carbon taxing system and developing in a measured cooperative way a carbon pricing system."

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1840827.htm

[phantom power]

1. Has anybody sent him a memo about the danger of his country running out of water?

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2. It doesn't matter

Als long as the industry is okay, it doesn't matter if every single citizen dies.

[Porcupine]

3. He thinks he can buy it with the coal profits.

What the rich don't get is the rain falls, or not, on the rich and poor alike. When the rain chooses to not fall for long enough being rich does not appease the howling mob at your door because you are still watering your garden.