I reckon the government are on to a great thing with green tax on the back of all this global warming bunkum. It's little more than a conscience tax for the well off middle classes who are told that the earth is spiralling towards disaster unless they allow the government to take more of their hard earned wages away from them. It's similar to the premium prices people are willing to pay for free-range eggs or organic tomatoes, even though the true validity of some of these items leaves much to be desired.
Anyone standing against higher green tax issues can so easily be painted as an irresponsible and uncaring villain, the government are laughing all the way to the bank.
Remeber how all the government bodies and so-called expert think tank scientists, engineers and IT consultants hyped up the millenium bug beyond all proportions? They must have creamed it for all it was worth, all that extra pay for checking and rewriting systems. Now I suppose there are some that say it was because of all the early planning that a massive crisis was prevented, but I think I'm too cynical for that. They hyped it beyond all reason to turn itself into its own industry and it was a very profitable short-term exercise. Now exactly the same thing is happening on environmental lobbying, global warming and general CO2/carbon tax issues, only it is morally reprehensible to stand up and announce that the panel of scientists and experts don't know what they're talking about.
No, they've managed to pull a really slick number on us with this one, we're paying through the nose while whats left of our industry battles to remain competitive against rising costs of environmental issues and immense commercial pressures from Asia who are allowed to go dumping and spewing all sorts of nasties into the environment with no control or regulation whatsoever.