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July 23, 2009
The Coalition continues to fight and squabble amongst itself in public over an emissions trading scheme even though they too took a proposal to the last election and acknowledge that they lost the election in part because of the resistance to doing anything significant about reducing global heating.
What next?
Why they could come out in support of the mining companies (eg. Rio Tinto) push for nuclear energy and express their hostility to renewable energy? This is the place to make a stand against Rudd on nuclear power. Make the differences clean and sharp.
The Coalition can show the electorate they are being positive since big subsidies for a domestic nuclear power industry is them being serious about reducing the nation's carbon emissions and base load power. High tech means that they can do away with all that girly stuff about renewable energy.
The free market liberals can make their stand for the free market, competition, prosperity and freedom by supporting the coal-fired electricity generator's demands for between $5 billion and $20bn in extra assistance from the Rudd government to avoid an "industry crisis" under the emissions trading scheme. The Coalition can show some political courage by making a big stand here, since the generators 130 million free permits worth at least $3.5bn over the first five years of the ETS is just not enough.
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go the Coalition. They've finally found something to fight for. They are on a winner in opposing emissions trading scheme.