Note to Climate Change Thieves: You Fail

Of course the year 2000 or so was the tipping point year- because temps were already starting to decline and you knew it. Of course the EPA office of High Inquisitor CO2 monitoring will not be fired immediately, or even reduced in size. RICO the lot.

We have reduced carbon dioxide to 1992 levels!

The earth is saved! And we have environmentalists to thank......wait, what was that, the free market did it? Natural gas is so cheap, it is now burned for power and that has reduced our carbon output? [statism on] No, the government had to have done it. Nothing ever gets done without the government forcing it to happen. [/statism] So driving SUV's had no real effect?

Wow, what a waste of government time. Looks like they can fire the entire EPA division devoted to CO2. They sure as hell suck at their jobs.

Death and Carbon Taxes

Like a good Liz Warren sound bite, the Carbon Tax in Australia is a gift that keeps on giving.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said it would be "reprehensible" if any cemetery was taking advantage of grieving families by overcharging them for funerals.
scare quotes in original, don't know if he held up his hands while giving the quote, or wrote it that way.

So, how do you implement the carbon tax, sir? I'm assuming the tax is levied on all businesses that employ workers, machinery or exist. I prefer that all taxes be passed directly to the person paying the bill, in this case, the dead man's family, not hidden. (The Tax That Shalt Not Be Named) After all, they are a direct tax on an activity, correct? Just like a sales tax, they are quantifiable.

Whoops, got ahead of myself. It is illegal in Oz to point out the cost of government to customers. Technically, businesses are having to raise prices to cover all the supply chain increases, and the TTTSNBN commission is insulted by blaming it on their taxes. Fauxahanutas would be proud.

And they give direct payment to those making under a certain amount to "offset" the costs involved.  I thought you tax an activity to reduce it from occuring. The whole point is to price the lower income types from being able to afford electricity or fuel, thereby reducing carbon emissions. Hell, hasn't the U.S. dropped to below 1999 CO2 levels just by having a crappy economy? That is the first stated goal of the Aussie TTTSNBN law. The green nuts should be happy as hell, but they are pissed that we did it the easy way, forcing banks to make loans to people that can't pay them back, not hammering them with irrational taxes.

No range report

Overheated at work yesterday, had stuff to do around the house, and by the time I was freed up, watching reruns of Big Bang Theory and Men at Work seemed like a fine distraction. MaW isn't that bad. For a cable show.
I have some hotter loads for the 6.8. More of the 28.3 grain stuff and some 29.2 grain loads.