‘A fraud on the Australian people’

‘JULIA Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax is the most brazen fraud to be perpetrated by an Australian government.
Warming believers should be outraged that the tax is so useless.
Sceptics should be outraged it’s so pointless.
It offends the intelligence of everyone and threatens the jobs of thousands. For nothing.
….Yesterday Gillard promised to spend undeclared billions more to decommission some 2000 megawatt coal-fired power station to stop its “dirty” emissions. That station will almost certainly be Hazelwood, in Victoria.
Consider the madness. Hazelwood supplies up to a quarter of the baseload power of growing Victoria, which needs more power stations, not less. And that cheap, reliable power will be replaced with … what?..’