By: Gerard Vaughan

Gerard Vaughan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:42:09 +0000

Good to hear that sanity is making a little headway here and there, and a relief to know that one “there” is Buckingham Palace !
Since it isn’t really possible to “single-out” bad busineses – and it’s usually bad ones which “do best” (or we wouldn’t be in this mess) – what is required is an “unsustainability tax” which would depend upon the energy usage involved. An Energy tax.
Which = increase in energy bills = increase in everything’s price = inflation. This is where the link between Energy and Money becomes apparent. Money – basically – merely represents Energy. More so even than Gold, which it used to. The “Wellbeing of the Economy” has all my days, it seems, depended upon the degrading of the Environment and therefore our Future.
The revenue would be used to START, or invested in – NOT subsidize – sustainable business. It’s very simple.
Sustainability without fuel = Real sustainability
This appears to be happening with “Windfarms”, BUT, the pathetic quantity of energy output is subsidized by paying a high premium to the owners of the farm per kW-hr, and the things must be built with energy from other sources but wind for the same reason. Thus they give only an Illusion of sustainability, and are therefore a fraud, to be realistic.

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