Hi Big Gav,
I am confused what was being measured; a reduction in vehicle travel miles(VTM) or a reduction in petrol importation(use)?
It makes most sense to include all carbon dioxide emissions, although its not likely that 4-5 cents/L for petrol is going to have a big impact, in comparison with possible future petrol price rises( >$1 per L) due to oil shortages. We should definitely also have improved fuel economy standards for all vehicles that are raised every year.

I see one of the biggest impacts of carbon trading encouraging an expansion of long term forestry plantations. One of the problems with 20-25 year tree rotations for timber is the lack of income until harvesting.

Seems you only had to be related to a Nelson Pde resident, not actually live there

several former residents of the street whose relatives have died of leukemia and cancer have come forward

The radium was mined near one of the SA geothermal prospects (Paralana) and shipped to Sydney.

On the MRET I think that's where much of the carbon auction revenue should go, even to the radioactive geothermal sites just to see if they can get it to work. The trouble is that micro-renewables such as rooftop solar are still battler-unfriendly even with quotas, feed-in tariffs and rebates. My big idea for today is give a lot of the ETS revenue to electricity retailers and they can install smart meters, rooftop solar etc regardless of the homeowner's financial situation.