Just in time for Evan Thornley’s arrival in the space, consumer enthusiasm for hybrid/all-electric vehicles is “evaporating” due to collapsing oil prices and the global financial crisis. Toyota Prius sales in the US are down by nearly 50 per cent. At $140…
Before you listen to Greens Party hysteria about the Rudd government’s announcement about reducing carbon pollution not being enough, consider this line from the government’s plan:
“The sale of (carbon polluting) permits will raise $11.5 billion for the Australian Government…
Environmentalists who question the dominant global warming paradigm quickly become an endangered species.
A class of primary school kids felt passionately about protecting local kangaroos. They wrote to the state Minister for the Environment hoping he’d do something. He couldn’t even be bothered replying to their letters. That’s why they call him the Minister of Mean.
Greens party officials are panicked by rumours that one of their Banyule council candidates is a Liberal party stooge on the payroll of crafty Mayor and former MP Wayne Phillips.
Barack Obama has pledged to bankrupt the coal industry. What does this mean for Australia?
The Greens Party and Nick Xenophon are backing the mad plans of the violent extremist group “Plug the Pipe.” One of their policies, building a dam in a national park in Gippsland. Country independent MP Craig Ingram is not impressed.
A socially conservative pantsman Queensland Labor MP has joined the Greens party. And likens his move to Bob Dylan’s shift to the electric guitar. Some think it’s a cunning ploy to hang on to a seat that ought to be Liberal. Others wonder what it says about the unprincipled nature of Greens party politics.
AAP reports: Australians have put a price on what they’re prepared to pay to help fight climate change — $10 extra a month on their electricity bill. The 2008 Lowy Institute Poll reveals that Australians want action on climate change, but…
Victorian Liberal leader Ted Baillieu is under pressure from members of his party room to push out Louise Asher from her shadow Water portfolio following her bungling of party policy on the government’s controversial “north-south” pipeline.
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