OT: Re: [DUG] Screen sizes :-)

[David Moorhouse]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:59:14 +1200, you wrote:
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>where we then pay 
>the Chinese (and other countries producing these) more money as carbon 
>tax for them to produce even more greenhouse gas than we do.  We also 
>sell some of them our coal that is supposedly too ungreen for us to use.
>
Agreed - but it didn't have to be this way.  There were proposals to keep
the carbon charges within the NZ economy and use  the money for incentives
for more efficient plant/equip etc.

Of course lobbying by large scale energy users (and farmers) forced the
govt to back down.  It's a missed opportunity that will bit us in the
future.

Cheers

D