Goulburn's eco-friendly Rudd made to pay for our polluting PM
By Gemma Jones
The Daily Telegraph
March 14, 2009 12:00am
KEVIN Rudd of Goulburn has one of the smallest carbon footprints in Australia.
Down the road, Kevin Rudd of The Lodge, Canberra, has a giant carbon monster print.
But it will be Mr Rudd and his energy-wise Goulburn family - who use water-saving taps, collect shower water for the garden, have insulated their home and make sure they switch off lights when they leave a room - who will pay.
The Federal Government's emission trading scheme, which has been called into question as the economy deteriorates, could cost families as much as $200 a year in higher energy bills.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has been busy earning the nickname Kevin "Carbon" Rudd.
His private jet belched more than 3100 tonnes of carbon, or 225 times the yearly emissions of the average Australian household, into
the atmosphere as he flittered around the world in his first year in office. The Lodge, where open log fires were burning as late as last year, and his Sydney home, Kirribilli House, spewed 272 tonnes of carbon.
"I don't see why we should have to pay (more for electricity), we don't have the sort of money," Mr Rudd of Goulburn said. "We will have no choice. I suppose in the long run if it is to help the carbon emissions, we will be happy."
For a sustainable future, experts have calculated every person on Earth would need to reduce their carbon emissions to an average two tonnes each. On that score, Mr Rudd would account for more than 1500 average people, according to The Daily Telegraph's study of just the Prime Minister's international flights during his first year in office.
It was estimated last year that the Government's carbon reduction scheme would add 1 per cent to the cost of living in Australia.
"I think $200 is a very modest estimate and as for Kevin Rudd's enormous carbon emissions, it is really typical of do as I say, not as I do," the Australian Family Association's John Morrissey said.
Liberal Senator Michael Ronaldson labelled Mr Rudd "Carbon Kev". "Mr Rudd is not a climate change sceptic, he is a climate change hypocrite," he said.
A spokesman for Mr Rudd listed measures the Government was taking to reduce Australia's overall carbon footprint, including the trading scheme.
Please Please Spare me this CRAP !!!!!!! ............Well that was my instantaneous reaction to this pap piece... then I thought that if the MSM is daring to publish such a story, maybe the Green Hoax aka Global Warming .. ooops sorry aaaheem hang on I will get it right in a minute
Climate Change... HOAX have been exposed a little more than they already have.
The loons that propose the Global Warming Hoax are the same loons that stated that the earth was going into an Ice Age back in the 1970's, these same loons were just hoping that people like me had forgotten what they said back then more importantly they had hoped that people like me had not kept records of what they said back then.
Loons where are you ? come out Loons, Loons, Loons, yooooo hoooooo are you there Loons?
Al are you there? Kevin 07, Barack Hussein are you there?
Look forward to discussing what went wrong with your Ice Age theory by 1980.. I am sure you have a good explanation's to why you got it so WRONG then, and why you have it so RIGHT now and into the year 2050,How did you get it so wrong over TEN years (as far as I know we have not had an ice age between 1970 and 1980 and not even as I write this are there any signs of an Ice Age) but are able to predict exactly what the temperature and sea level will be in the year 2050?
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