Thursday, May 15, 2008

Australia: Fury over means test on solar

Holy smokes! First Great Britain scraps some green taxes, then Germany proposes cutting the feed-in tariff for solar, yesterday we hear that the U.S. tax breaks will probably expire and today Australia. Here are the headlines:

From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Fury over means test on solar


From The Age:
Means test clouds solar sales

From The Australian:
Solar power rebate change cools public demand

From EarthToys:
CLIMATE BUDGET THREATENS SOLAR INDUSTRY WITH BIG STING IN THE TAIL

I like this post, "Brown to scrap tax rises in bid to calm voter fury"

From Senator Simon Cameron, Republican and Democrat of Pennsylvania:
"The honest politician is one who when he is bought, will stay bought."