Uncompetitive without a carbon tax

We all appreciate the concerns of Craig Hillman (A less Competitive Australia, Peninsula News, July 9) but unfortunately your article seems to have been written by the Liberal Party media unit and is almost completely factually wrong.

The earth, unfortunately, is doing exactly as the IPCC predictions have suggested, even a momentary glimpse of the weather channel will show you all around the world is experiencing record rains, floods and heatwaves.

Just because you haven't noticed much in Empire Bay doesn't mean it's not happening.

As for your coal providing cheap power, well that time is almost at an end as rooftop solar is at grid parity.

Whether we have a carbon tax or not, the fact remains that both Liberal and Labor have committed themselves to the same emissions reduction targets, a five per cent drop.

A price on carbon whether by a tax or ETS is a certainty around the world, as Tony Abbott's idea of "planting more trees" just won't do the job.

You say that a carbon tax will make us less competitive but most people who actually know what they are talking about believe in the not too distant future we will be uncompetitive without one.

Online submission, 8 Jul 2012

Ross Cochrane, Woy Woy