Reducing Emissions and Saving Houshold Costs

I am not totally sure I believe in Global Warming, but what I do believe, is we need to stop polluting our planet. We also need to come to grips with harnessing the woelds resources rather than harvesting them.

In that regard I am a believer in alternate power sources, and energy. Solar, Wind, Water, and Thermal are all great resources we could harness, and we need to learn to recylce our water, rather than desalinating our oceans, and capturing and recycling our storm and rain water.

Our Government in it's wisdom decided to means test rebates on Solar, which meant most that could have afforded to purchase it with the rebate no longer can, and those that could not before, still can't. Our State Government decided to plough ahead with a desalination plant, where it is not necessarily the best solution to possible drought in Sydney region, and of course it was a overreaction at the time. Why plunder water from one resource when we are still wasting our other used water rather than recycling it?

The Government also feel they can do nothing to affect petrol prices, which is at best blinkered. They should be encouraging Australians to move away from petrol, and towards electric, hybrid, LPG and diesel vehicles all of which are much cleaner and greener vehicles and would through lack of demand force petrol suppliers to lower their prices, this in turn will affect prices of food, clothing etc, due to a decrease in transport costs.

The Government can encourage us by discounting registration costs for these vehicles, and allowing electric scooters, e-bikes, etc up to 500w or 50cc to be free of registration and licencing requirements, and subject to the same rules as bicycles.

Again this will mean a reduction in the amount of more local trips by petrol vehicles and save in Carbon Emissions, and lessen demand for petrol, a twofold effect.

We need to close the City to traffic during business hours, and have a time limited delivery and heavy transport access outside of business hours. This will mean a reduction in the heavy carbon emissions in the city, and will allow city workers safew walking, uses of bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, and roller blades to get around, and of course there is the existing public transport still in existence. This would have the additional effect of increasing the health and fitness of workers in the city, which is known to translate into more productive workers.

I cover the Solar energy debate in my Blog:- 'Solar Energy - The Solution to Carbon Emissions'

This is a effective way of 'doing something' which will provide extensive Australian Carbon Emission reduction in a short period of time, will work towards offsetting the effects of existing Emissions, and will help household budgets through reductions in the essential living costs.

The technology for all I mention presently exists, although Solar Conversion is expensive. The Government can assist all households to convert by providing no interest loans for conversion, which can be repayed through the familiy or individuals income tax, or upon sale of their home whichever is the sooner. However, the Government needs to make these loans available to all in order to encourage all households to convert, and of course those on higher incomes will be repaying far sooner under this idea.

Solar energy conversion for all schools is particularly beneficial in saving costs, and allowing schools to make money during the holiday by the electric suppliers buying back the electricity produced during this period.