Carbon Credits?

[bluesky4me]

There is a lot in the media about "Carbon Credits"..althought not a specific Stagea issue...I wanted to raise the issue as I wanted to get some feedback from others.

From what I can gather the carbon credits scheme is just another half arsed tax that some wanker thought up to give even more Money to the alrealy fat govt coffers..from what i know ( and I hope I am wrong)..bassically the way it works is polluters have to pay a taxe(buy credits) to pollute..so this is meant to make them want to stop...yeh right..all this will do is move the cost of the "credits" to little old you and me!...rather than actually making real steps to a cleaner planet...in true knee jerk fashion...our smart men in suits have found another way to make you pay..

Any way dont worry..the electric car is only around the corner..petrol prices are high because they want to make as much money as possible before the flood of alternative fuels...not because there is a lack of oil (not sure if i really believe this myself..but it makes a bit of sense)

Check the electric car...0 to 100k's in 3.9 seconds...%100 torque and a red line of 13,000 RPM!..I want one!

http://www.teslamotors.com/

Edited July 29, 2008 by bluesky4me

[Stinky Rooster]

how about a sub 8 sec electric drag bike?

[zoomzoom]

electric car only around the corner? the technology has been around for 150 years, there were more electric cars at the turn of the 1900 compared to internal combustion cars. electric cars could have replaced the vast majority of commuter cars decades and decades ago, but they arent as profitable. its such a shame

[BoostedBarge]

WHo knows if electric cars are the solution. THe batteries require a huge amount of energy to be produced and then you're only shifting the pollution to the power stage, which at this stage is coal. Coal has far worse carbon emissions that burning oil. Perhaps if Australia was using a cleaner source to generate power then electric cars would be a good solution.

[Sydneykid]

Should we get into the global warming argument, why not.......my own opinion........it's a crock of shyte invented by a bunch of environmental lobbyists who were out of work. Now they make millions telling people that the world is going to end. All based on ridiculously small samples, flawed logic and erroneous modelling.

Back to the topic at hand, the truth is my Stagea puts out less carbon in a year than one of my cousin's cows and he has thousands. Put a cat on it you environmental zealots, leave my Stagea alone.

Cheers

Gary

[BoostedBarge]

I dunno if global warming is a crock of shyte or not. The electrical car is commonly pitched as 'the solution'. I just wanted to point out its flaws.

Global warming or not, the price of the fuel is going to continue to rise, which certainly sucks for us Stagea drivers.

[Sydneykid]

I don't know about you but my fill up cost 30 cents a litre LESS last Tuesday than in did on the Tuesday before.

Cheers

Gary