Some Australians are getting excited with the news that "Australia's carbon tax has gone for good." The Melbourne Herald Sun is reporting that Tony Abbott now has the required Senate support for abolition. Aussies shouldn't get too excited. Abbott still needs to ensure that any other existing carbon taxation is also removed, and that no new carbon taxation is enacted. When in Canada last week meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Abbott made some troubling statements regarding greenhouse gas emissions that appear to contradict his otherwise hard line against carbon taxation: "Speaking at a media conference on Tuesday from the Canadian capital Ottawa along-side the anti-carbon tax prime minister Stephen Harper, Mr. Abbott said the [sic] he was encouraged at the new US approach of requiring coal-fired power stations to cut emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, because it did not place a price on carbon but used regulation to cut pollution...(Read Full Post)