tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post582513719788143704..comments2024-03-22T18:15:47.666+11:00Comments on Boy on a bike: Climategate, the ETS and something or otherUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-84208540663133438892009-12-02T12:08:06.689+11:002009-12-02T12:08:06.689+11:00I just love the way Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce ...I just love the way Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce constantly refer to the ETS as a BIG FAT TAX. The Labor Party, ABC and Fairfax media visibly cringe whenever their beloved ETS (Enormous Tax Scheme) is described in this way.<br /><br />Up until now most of the public was in a state of blissful ignorance about the ETS - the public thought it was a bit like the National Sorry Day - makes us all feel good and costs us nothing, isn't our PM Rudd a genius?<br /><br />Call the ETS for what it is - a BIG FAT TAX - and the landscape changes immediately. Overnight you have the public's attention.<br /><br />Hey, opposing mad climate change policies aimed at impoverishing the nation suddenly ain't that hard after all.Ubique of Perthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-27202328737995822692009-12-02T02:34:54.222+11:002009-12-02T02:34:54.222+11:00"I have given up and decided to use the term ..."I have given up and decided to use the term "climategate", even though I can't stand the idea of adding "-gate" to scandals of any sort."<br /><br />Ha ha! My thoughts 100 percent. I decided resistance was useless only 6 hours ago.sHxnoreply@blogger.com