As details of the yet-to-be-finalised carbon tax trickle out from the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and her Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, the new tax is emerging as an expensive, confusing and contradictory mess which will ratchet up already soaring prices of gas, petrol and electricity, for no national benefit.
The Government needs to introduce the new tax to placate the Greens, with whom they are in alliance, and to raise the billions of dollars needed to bring the …
