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68 comments on ABC 7:30 Report: Richard Heinberg & Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
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Kerry O'Brien did indeed take off the gloves for a little while. I'm confused though, as to why he advocated reducing Excise. Still, it's probably the most blunt series of questions on the subject of Peak Oil that have ever asked of our politicans.
Tony Jones has previously interviewed Heinberg, now Kerry (The Red Menace :D ), and in last nights Q & A, the first questions were on Oil. It seems that the ABC 'gets it'. How long until Australias MSM latch on (even earlier this wek, Channel Nein!s 'reporters' were still harping on about 'speculation' driving Oil prices up)?
Yeah Red Kezza has gone all peak oil lately, so has Tony Jones, who also interviewed Heinberg recently and asked a question about "Hubbert's peak". Other closet peak oilers in the media include Alan Kohler and Robert Gottliebsen.
And Ross Gittins.
I think Kerry was actually trying to force Rudd to say that dropping excise is the wrong thing to do - he couldn't get the answer he wanted and almost stated it himself later in the interview:
The presenter is even more delusional than the PM. Why should the government reduce the excise tax???
technically its cutting paying gst on the excise (ie, a tax on a tax), and the goverment is talking about doing so because
a) they want to appear to be doing "something" about petrol prices (and they currently have budget surplus, although i think spending it on upgrading our train system would be a much better thing to do).
b) during and since the last election both parties have been saying they would (although the current opposition were talking about cutting the excise itself by 5c, rather than removing the gst on excise, which ammounts to about 3.5c).
Andrew