Why shoot elephants?
It’s the most effective way to kill them. Any game-keeper will tell you that. Just as any economist will tell you that the most effective way to control o...
Tag: carbon
De Lacy on the Carbon Tax
“Keith De Lacy, chairman of takeover target Macarthur Coal, said yesterday the absence of a viable alternative to coal to fuel Asia’s economic growth w...
Tax cuts the price of MacArthur Coal
The Prime Minister is saying that today’s Peabody bid for Macarthur Coal demonstrates that the Gillard/Brown “coal tax” has not hurt the prospects of the Au...
Flying bind
Qantas—the airline that will soon call Singapore home (?)—says consumers will foot the entire bill for the un-compensated tax on aviation fuel. The air...
The “clean energy” hustle
Some aspects of the Prime Minister’s advocacy for her coal tax are, at best, misleading: a wedge for the much greater costs implied by the Labor/Greens agen...
Prices to grow 20 percent faster
Among the slogans that the Labor/Greens alliance will pound out over the next few weeks is that their coal tax is “low cost.” They don’t seem to understand th...
When is “reform” not a reform?
No doubt Ms Gillard will assure us, next Sunday when she announces the coal tax she has agreed with the Greens and two “independents”, that this is a “reform...