Rod Speed wrote:
> Sir John Howard wrote:
> > mosherkus...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >> On May 18, 12:10?am, Sir John Howard wrote:
> >>> Reverse solar subsidy cut, say Greens
> >>>
> >>> http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23714640-29277,00.html
> >>>
> >>> GREENS leader Bob Brown today urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to
> >>> reverse the Budget blunder which had devastated solar power
> >>> businesses around Australia.
> >>>
> >>> Senator Brown said voters had expected the Rudd Government to use
> >>> its first Budget to tackle climate change.
> >>>
> >>> "Instead this was an Exocet missile into a key industry for reducing
> >>> greenhouse gas emissions," he said in a statement.
> >>>
> >>> "This is a stunning solar stuffup for Labor's first Budget."
> >>>
> >>> In a move announced in the Budget, only households earning less than
> >>> $100,000 will be eligible for the $8000 rebate, aimed at offsetting
> >>> the cost of installing solar panels to generate electricity.
> >>>
> >>> The threshold is lower than the $150,000 earnings limit the
> >>> Government also announced in the Budget for households to receive
> >>> certain family tax benefits.
> >>>
> >>> This move has prompted widespread complaints of cancelled orders
> >>> from across the solar panel installation industry.
> >>>
> >>> Senator Brown said this obviously was not thought through.
> >>>
> >>> "If either (Environment Minister) Peter Garrett or (Climate Change
> >>> Minister) Penny Wong were consulted or backed this absurd move they
> >>> should hang their heads in shame. Their silence has been deafening,"
> >>> he said.
> >>>
> >>> Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson said only the environment would
> >>> suffer from this move.
> >>>
> >>> "One day they're telling us that someone who earns $150,000 is rich
> >>> - the next day apparently, if you earn $100,000 you're rich," he
> >>> said.
> >>>
> >>> Dr Nelson said this was unfair to households that are considering
> >>> solar panels and a step backwards in reducing greenhouse gas
> >>> emissions.
> >>>
> >>> "The Government seems to think that someone who earns $100,000 is
> >>> rich," Dr Nelson said.
> >>>
> >>> "And how do you put a means test on the environment?"
> >>>
> >>> -----------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Yep, no doubt about it. KRudd is a slimy arsehole.
> >>
> >> Until climate change is proven. Solar panels should be a choice
> >> climate change believers make and fund themselves.
> >
> > (I thought I'd already replied to this. Oh well.)
>
> That was just another of your pathetic little drug crazed fantasys.
I don't do drugs, Rod. Especially not speed. And the plural of fantasy
is fantasies. You'd know that if you weren't high on speedballs.
> > Yes, to each his own. But it takes some degree of volume sales for something
> > to really take off and the price to come down (economies of scale.
>
> That subsidy wouldnt do anything like that.
Proof?
> > You know the score).
>
> You clearly dont.
NIL for you (apart from your home goal).
> > So subsidising them to start with helps this along.
>
> Nope. Its just a subsidy for what isnt economic and makes absolutely no sense at all.
Depends. You of all people should know that. |