Comments on: Shift or Shaft? http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/ Just another Rogers Radio Blog weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: Chris O'Toole http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1209 Chris O'Toole Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:06:35 +0000 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1209 Dion was pounding his desk ranting against a carbon tax and how he could never support it. Now, he has flip flopped and is all for a carbon tax. What a fraud! However, the gullible public and radio announcers like you, Andrew, suck this garbage up and really believe it. By the way, why don't you ask Dion what the carbon reduction target will be as a result of his plan? Furthermore, Canada contributes 2% of world pollution, so why not target China, India and the USA first and foremost! Canada can not reduce carbon emissions alone. Dion was pounding his desk ranting against a carbon tax and how he could never support it. Now, he has flip flopped and is all for a carbon tax. What a fraud! However, the gullible public and radio announcers like you, Andrew, suck this garbage up and really believe it. By the way, why don’t you ask Dion what the carbon reduction target will be as a result of his plan? Furthermore, Canada contributes 2% of world pollution, so why not target China, India and the USA first and foremost! Canada can not reduce carbon emissions alone.

]]> By: Dan Fitzgerald http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1208 Dan Fitzgerald Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:21:54 +0000 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1208 "<i>companies are issued emissions permits and if they go beyond it they have to buy more credits from companies who pollute less</i>" Ah - replace the worthless CDOs, derivatives and other busted ponzi schemes with another fictional financial instrument - gotta keep those banks afloat. How many decades will this fraud take to pan out? “companies are issued emissions permits and if they go beyond it they have to buy more credits from companies who pollute less”

Ah - replace the worthless CDOs, derivatives and other busted ponzi schemes with another fictional financial instrument - gotta keep those banks afloat.

How many decades will this fraud take to pan out?

]]> By: Tim Gravelle http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1203 Tim Gravelle Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:22:36 +0000 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1203 The Carbon Tax achieves nothing other than making people, all people pay more than they are paying now. Now I hear everyone saying "Yes nail the big bad corporations". They only thing wrong with that is that Dion, the other politicians, and people who cheer more coporate taxes, forget one small thing. We the people who buy their products and/or services, pay those taxes when we do business with them. So expect to pay more for your food, furnishings, clothes, and of course fuel. The little the poor will save in income taxes will be devoured by higher prices then some. Dion has said nothing about where this money is going. Solar and wind power is still not economically viable but is getting closer, but really, it will never power towns and cities. Electric cars? Expensive, good only for short distances and still requires a power plant (fossil fuel, nuclear, or if ur lucky hydro) to recharge it. Want to impress me? Either get an alternate fuel to power internal combustion, diesel, and jet engines or something to replace them. Don't even think about bio-fuel, we all know what's happened to crop prices. Why would a farmer sell his crop for food when he can get more to use it as fuel. The Carbon Tax achieves nothing other than making people, all people pay more than they are paying now. Now I hear everyone saying “Yes nail the big bad corporations”. They only thing wrong with that is that Dion, the other politicians, and people who cheer more coporate taxes, forget one small thing. We the people who buy their products and/or services, pay those taxes when we do business with them. So expect to pay more for your food, furnishings, clothes, and of course fuel. The little the poor will save in income taxes will be devoured by higher prices then some. Dion has said nothing about where this money is going.

Solar and wind power is still not economically viable but is getting closer, but really, it will never power towns and cities. Electric cars? Expensive, good only for short distances and still requires a power plant (fossil fuel, nuclear, or if ur lucky hydro) to recharge it. Want to impress me? Either get an alternate fuel to power internal combustion, diesel, and jet engines or something to replace them. Don’t even think about bio-fuel, we all know what’s happened to crop prices. Why would a farmer sell his crop for food when he can get more to use it as fuel.

]]> By: David-NS http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1202 David-NS Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:23:27 +0000 http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/andrewkrystal/2008/06/23/shift-or-shaft/#comment-1202 This is not how I want the country to deal with cutting carbon output. Regardless of income tax cuts, whatever costs are added to businesses will make their way downhill to the consumer. We live in a market economy and that is reality. This plan could be highly effective in Cuba. This is not how I want the country to deal with cutting carbon output. Regardless of income tax cuts, whatever costs are added to businesses will make their way downhill to the consumer. We live in a market economy and that is reality. This plan could be highly effective in Cuba.

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