Solar panel companies 'mislead' over carbon tax impact

Bradbury - why are you so paranoid about Tony Abbott - he's not in government !! If your Carbon Tax is so good for everbody - surely it will sell itself - the truth is you and your Labour mates know this is a Tax recovery scheme for Labours reckless spending that will have no impact whatsoever in assisting in Carbon reduction - maybe if you actually spent the money on emmission reduction programs Taxpayers might start believing you - but to date there is no sign of that and we all know why !!

My electricity supplier ( in Victoria ) just increased its rates effective from middle of July by about 14%. Of course they don't blame it onto the carbon tax directly, they are not allowed to, but i also got no other explanation for an increase of this magnitude?!? So you really ask yourself what/who is to blame for such an increase??? The solar panel companies should simply not have blamed the carbon tax, but they are right in the prognosis that electricity costs will dramatically rise in the future. Why it is not compulsory to put solar panels onto new buildings by law is beyond me - This would be a bill i would support anytime, because the benefits in the long run are with the user and the initial installation costs will pay off over the time! Thomas Grosse

This Labour government is now using the ACCC to control free speech! If it's NOT the Carbon Tax driving up the price of power, please tell me WHAT IS? Why are they preventing Solar businesses from telling the truth? Can anyone tell me how removing the incentive (rebate) to invest in Solar Power and adding a Tax on the offending Carbon Dioxide (poison) is going to help the economy and more importantly reduce our Carbon Footprint? (scratches head)

Figures vary wildly, but it costs a lot more to produce electricity via solar PV than by any other means. Every time someone installs solar PV, society pays more for its electricity. Solar PV firms then use these rising prices to market and promote more solar PV sales which further exacerbate rising prices. This is not only legal, but it is a deceit which is supported by government, by legislation, associated institutions and complicit media which provide some degree of cover for the deceit. Given the above it is quite consistent and seems only natural that solar PV firms would use the carbon tax as another marketing tool to further promote their product. It is the government which is being inconsistent and politically over-sensitive here. The solar firms are only doing their job of driving the Australian economy towards bankruptcy and austerity measures by the most efficient and effective means possible. As to the 400 per cent claim, anything is possible once we sign on to a blank cheque ETS.