Stealing.

Stealing.

Introductory Thought

“My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called “Max”. To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. ” (From the opening narration of “Mad Max 2″, 1981 ).

1 Litre of Gas

The following news article caught my eye today:

Motorists could pay 50 cents more in carbon tax on every litre of gas by the end of this decade if the Pembina Institute gets its way.  The organization is recommending the provincial government steadily raise the carbon tax each year until 2020 to curb greenhouse gas emissions.  The tax, now at 3.33 cents a litre on gas ($15 per tonne of carbon emitted), is scheduled to rise on July 1 to 4.45 cents and to 6.67 cents by the summer of 2012.  But Pembina researchers argue that won’t be enough. They’re calling for a further carbon tax increase of $15 to $30 per tonne of carbon emissions every year from 2013 to 2020.  That’s equivalent to adding about five to six cents more to the tax every year, pushing it above 50 cents by 2020. (http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/82988452.html)

The reason for this carbon tax, according to the Pembina Institute, is to “equitably contribute to a global effort to avoid dangerous climate change, carbon prices in Canada need to reach $200 per tonne by 2020” and they suggested the government to “[i]nvest a portion of carbon tax revenues in projects that will reduce emissions“(http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=23745&codi=86392).

Stealing

Why only invest a portion of the revenue? I’m just going to come out and say it:  They are trying to steal wealth, plain and simple.

By artifically raising the price of energy, via taxes, you prevent people and businesses, (not subsidized, with fiat paper money, by the same very government that raised the prices) to withdraw from the economy.   This sin tax, on using energy, is another attempt to control and subdue the people -all in the name of a false claim that:

1. Governments and other large economic bodies are capable of managing the climate of the earth.
2. Humans beings are responsible for global warming.
3. Money can solve global warming.
4. The Sun does not control the climate of this planet or any other for that matter.
5. Any/All noticable weather changes are contributed to man-made global warming.

The fact of the matter is that this has nothing to do with the climate but most likely an upcoming (if not already here) energy crisis.  They are trying to stop people from using oil, because we may be running out, and the main way to do that is to hurt people in their wallets.

If you could only afford to buy 40 litres of gas a month at today’s prices (1 litre as of today is $0.97) that would cost you approximately $38, where as by 2020 that same 40 litres of gas (if 50 additional cents are added on top of today’s price of gas) would cost $58 dollars.  Where are you going to get that additional money? And if you can’t get that additional money, what won’t you be able to do because of this limitation?

Lets say you were a business or farmer, that dealt in oranges, where are you going to recoup rising cost of production due to this carbon tax? Where else but to add the additional costs on the product you are selling? How are the people going to afford the rising costs of -everything, let alone food, especially in the wake of economic meltdown? Some probably won’t.

Magical Technology

What really burns me about the above article is the following quote:

Invest a portion of carbon tax revenues in projects that will reduce emissions. By implementing emissions reductions projects unlikely to happen without public investment (such as public transit infrastructure), public support for the carbon tax will increase (http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=23745&codi=86392).

First off, it takes energy to get energy, so unless these “projects” are created using some yet unknown non-carbon based energy source, you’ve already lost.

Secondly, that quote might as well read, “create make work projects for your friends to manage so that you can employ individuals who may lose their jobs because either private companies cannot afford to employ them or individuals can not afford to generate/acquire work or income for themselves”.

Thirdly, these people do not realise (or maybe they do, but don’t care) that moving from one type of fuel source to another or a set of technologies that use one particular fuel source to another is expensive, a big investment and can take years.  Also, it should be noted that technology is not a source of energy itself, but rather it represents a means of using (current) energy in certain ways.

To create a “make work project” to build, an exampled, public transportation system using a portion of tax stealings revenue so that people can be:

1. Shoe horned into using it through economic manipulation.
2. Footed with the bill of maintaining it.
3. Learn to love losing the ‘fruit of their labour’ i.e “public support for the carbon tax will increase“.

sounds nothing short of “evil”.

Lastly, where is the rest of the portion of tax revenue going?

Articles Used:

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Stealing.

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