andyh wrote:
Why would it be applied to food btw?
Freighting food, and electricity and/or fuel bills for food producers. Most food is trucked around in Oz over distances. And many crops in oz arent grown with rainfall, grains and cereals are, but most fruit and veg is grown with irrigation, and that needs water pumps hence power.
Now the government has been very sketchy about how higher electricity bills would affect food producers.
In fact i have seen industry leaders in various sectors of food production ask questions specifically about their electricity bills, and get no answers, despite the government claiming food producers wont be affected.
Lots of irrigated crops especially on the murray darling basin run large electric water pumps and many of the large acreage operations on the murray are suprisingly hooked up to the grid...there is power grids/infastructure running all along the murray valley and sturt highway for example....alot of money has been spent by food producers there who are being turned into not much more than slaves for the big 2 supermarkets in oz that together control 80% of the packaged goods market.
These areas are home to the largest fruit, veg, orchards and potato and onion production...including the largest potato producers in the southern hemisphere...and they are pretty much all being payed peanuts atm by the big 2.
The irrigated food production that isnt hooked up to the grid, in cases where mains is too far away....like some groundwater (well water) areas...well they still use diesel or diesel/LPG injection pumps, and that fuel will be carbon taxed...again people are unsure of what will happen.
And again most of the fruit, veg, potatoes, onions etc still needs further processing, usually they are harvested and trucked to the cities or larger regional centres and then processed/packaged in facilites hooked up to mains power. Even raw potatoes need washing and/or sorting for example.
see how it all links in? So its not even prepackaged or cooked foods as curtaincat said...its pretty much all food that needs (carbon taxed) electricity.
I spoke to a real estate agent 2 weeks ago that deals with the largest irrigated food producing areas in australia, and he told me he has never seen it so bad...a lot of people want out, selling, and the buyers arent there. For various reasons i wont get into here...that is a thread of its own. Uncertainty about the carbon tax is one reason though. He sells everything from small farms to multi million dollar operations...or at least is trying to now
he told me he got a second job its that bad, and he works for one of the main 2 big name rural agencies in australia.
Ofc with globalisation and free trade all being set up now by tptb...first world food producers are now having to compete with 3rd world operations, some owned by billionaires...who use cheap labour, the people work all day in china and india for example for 1 or 2 dollars.
Ofc jimmy goldsmith told us some of this in the nineties...
sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Economics--Finan...ldsmith-in-1994.html
more about shifting food production to 3rd world cheap labour, and that name comes up again
rense.com/general78/rothw.htm
The way i see it, food producers in australia will be burdened and taxed so much, that they either effectively become slaves, or give it up completely....and im talking about the larger producers becoming effective slaves...high output and turnover, little profit...some of these operations turn over hundreds of millions of dollars particularly some of the centre pivot veg, potato and onion operations, but they are all now at the mercy of globalist woolworths and wesfarmers...woolworths having the majority instututional shareholders of yep you guessed it, blackrock inc and vanguard
