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 Obama to Rudd on emissions trading – you’re on your own, old son Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party have just lost their last big friend as they again attempt to force their discredited Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme tax through Parliament – US President Barack Obama. Not only that, President Obama has sided with the Coalition’s direct action plan for climate change and the environment, said Nationals Leader, Warren Truss. “The CPRS was already staggering around like a shot deer, but this surely is the death of it,” Mr Truss said. “Without the world’s biggest economy onside, the idea of global emissions trading is doomed. Emerging economies and major trading partners of ours such as China and India have already expressed distaste for cap and trade. “Overnight, President Obama has said that his administration is looking at separating out the emissions trading aspects of his planned legislation, leaving the US Senate the opportunity to pass an energy bill that ‘incentivizes clean energy so that it’s the cheaper, more effective kind of energy’. “This is exactly the approach that the Coalition favours, with its direct action to increase soil carbon levels and make greater use of solar energy, while providing incentives to encourage big emitters to lower their emission levels. “Since the fiasco of Copenhagen in December, the tide has turned against Mr Rudd and his complex and bureaucratic CPRS, which everyone knows will do nothing for the environment but will destroy jobs, investment and household budgets. “Climate change hysterics – scientists and laymen - have been found to have no clothes. Huge holes have been found in the Government’s own estimates of CPRS costs to households and business, with Mr Rudd admitting yesterday that energy costs will go up by 19 percent – in fact, it will be more. “This issue is being reclaimed by sensible, practical Australians, who do want to do something for the environment but want to keep their jobs and lifestyle intact. “When confronted with President Obama’s comments, Mr Rudd could do nothing but tell Parliament that former prime minister John Howard once supported a quite different emissions trading scheme. That was the best he could do. “What is Mr Rudd’s Plan B? The world has moved on and so should Mr Rudd. We’d be happy if he adopted the Coalition’s sensible, direct action plan. “If Mr Rudd insists on pushing his CPRS through Parliament and somehow manages to get the numbers, he would be placing Australia at an enormous disadvantage,” Mr Truss said. |
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