If the Carbon Tax is going to work, it should result in the closure of dirty power plants. Eventually the government is going to have to claim that a power plant closure is the result of the carbon tax. They can't keep saying that it is ridiculous to attribute power plant closures to the carbon tax.

But if they say that a power plant closed because of the carbon tax, the opposition will hammer them. Great work, Ms Gillard, you've got yourself and your mates stuck in another trap!

How long will the government keep claiming that their carbon tax will have no effect? If the carbon tax has no effect, WHAT IS THE POINT???

How much of a ruckus will there be on the first occasion that the government claims that the carbon tax actually DID have some effect/???