Kyoto and fuel prices

[cowman]

All the top liberals are vehemently denying there will be a "Kyoto" tax! Which probably means you can count on it! The figure of 10 cents a liter seems to be floating around. Now if every business must pay this extra cost how much will everything go up? How will the agricultural industry absorb this extra cost? I mean if farmers say they can't make it now how will they find the extra money this tax will take? Especially when the American farmer will not be paying this tax. Won't the American farmer be just that much more competitive? And doesn't this apply to all our industries too?

[wilagro]

The whole Kyoto thing is a SCAM. Why on earth would any nation sign on to this BS is beyond me. The Americans are smart enough not to sign on to a flawed agreement. Besides, 'Global Warming' is only a passing buzzword soon to be replaced with 'Global Cooling' as the new ice age begins in a few thousand years. These things have always gone in cycles.

[cowman]

Unfortunately it might be a scam but it is going to be a scam we will have to live with!
Now how are we going to grow feed barley that can possibly compete with American corn? We can't do it now! Add ten cents to a liter of deisel and who knows how much to fertilizer? I remember talking to a farmer 10 years ago in Shelby, Mont. We were comparing prices and believe me he had a large advantage then! And that was before the American government got so liberal with the taxpayers money!
We all know what happened with corn this winter. We had a major drought in the barley producing area...prices should have been high! Instead the feedlots imported cheap American corn and the barley sat in the bin. A "Kyota" tax will make barley even more expensive. How long until the feedlots decide they need to move south? And if they go the packers will go. Will we become an industrial wasteland? I guess that would get the old green house gasses down?
Now maybe it won't be all doom and gloom. Ethanol production, carbon sink payments etc. might even mean an improvement! But somehow I doubt it considering the intellectual heavyweights we elected to Ottawa!