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September 15th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
It was a case of everything old becoming new again as the parliamentary carbon tax debate entered its second full day in Canberra.
Labor was busy attacking the cost of the opposition’s direct action policy to cut carbon pollution – using Treasury figures made public two weeks ago.
Treasurer Wayne Swan released analysis in early September which suggested Tony Abbott’s reliance on domestic action alone would double the cost of cutting emissions.
On Thursday, a mining and manufacturing lobby group agreed with the finding.
That prompted Prime Minister Julia Gillard to tell parliament the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network had confirmed Mr Abbott’s approach would cost every household $1300 a year.
“That is not a cost Australians should need to bear,” she said.
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet got in on the action too.
He told reporters the coalition’s “silly” policy would cost $48 billion by 2020.
Under Labor’s emissions trading scheme business will be able to meet up to half their obligations through international abatement from 2015.
Mr Combet said it was important that business had access to overseas carbon markets so they could cut pollution at the lowest cost.
“The atmosphere knows no national boundary,” he said.
“A tonne of pollution that’s reduced overseas, credibly done, is of the same consequence, the same utility, the same importance as a tonne of pollution reduced in our own economy.”
But Mr Abbott remains sceptical. He’s standing by his plan which focuses on storing carbon in soil and vegetation.
“The fact is we are not actually reducing our emissions under the prime minister’s proposals,” the Liberal leader told reporters in Queanbeyan.
“Australia’s emissions don’t go down by five per cent by 2020 – they go up from 578 million tonnes to 621 million tonnes.”
Mr Abbott said the coalition’s policy was costed and capped at $3.2 billion over four years and “we won’t spend a dollar more than that”.
But inside parliament, Mr Combet insisted Mr Abbott’s word was worthless.
Earlier this week, the opposition leader said there was no way you could have a solar-powered steel mill or a wind-powered manufacturing plant.
“Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional,” he said.
Unfortunately for Mr Abbott, such projects are already under way.
In Germany, BMW is building wind-turbines at its Leipzig manufacturing plant that will provide electricity to assemble hundreds of vehicles per day from 2012, Mr Combet said.
In the United Kingdom, Ford’s diesel assembly plant is already completely wind-powered.
The climate change minister listed other plants in the UK and France that are using wind and solar power.
“What do each of these countries have in common?” he finally said. “A carbon price.”
On something of a roll, Mr Combet then sank the boot in further.
He noted the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures revealed a record $207 million was spent exploring for coal in the June quarter, well above the previous high of $122 million.
“This is the industry that the leader of the opposition said would be destroyed by a carbon price,” Mr Combet said.
The tit-for-tat debate might not be all that enlightening but, nevertheless, it was decided on Thursday there’s going to be more of it.
The house agreed to sit for an extra five hours on Tuesday “to facilitate debate” on the government’s 19 carbon price bills.
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