Taxing water tanks
Published 1 year, 10 months ago in Making News.What a classic notion this one is - the idea that we’ll be taxed for having a water tank. Any party who tried to pull that one off would be commiting political suicide. The opposite approach is needed: there should be far greater incentives to install water tanks, along with solar hot water heating and solar panels. If one in every 30 houses in Melbourne had solar panels generating power and feeding excess back into the grid there would have been no power crisis on Tuesday. At present you can set the panels up for less than $5000 using existing incentives - do that and slash or obliterate your electricity bills. But even $5000 is too much for many people and it would take maybe 8 to 12 years to get your money back - so we should have concessions or tax incentives that would bring it down to around say $2000. At that rate you’d get a huge take-up. Yes it would cost the govt big bikkies but look at the costs of setting up new power stations and of course the subsequent environmental issues. Tremendous opportunities have been squandered over the past 20 years in terms of governments failing to require environmentally friendly house design and solar hot water heating in new homes: we’ve started now but there is a long way to go.
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nooknook.
who’s there?
tanks.
tanks who?
tanks for that idea, but do you really think it’ll float?
Oh dear. I thought this site was above “nook nook” jokes.
Perhaps along hard look at Southern water’s pricing policy on tanks will show the tax already exists.
I say bring on the nooknook jokes, I’m not above anything.
How about:
Nook nook
Who’s there?
Matthew Newton.
Matthew Newton who?
That’s showbiz.
I think that was quite clever Trev, well done…
I completely agree with Nooknook though, taxing water tanks…next they’ll be taxing the air that we breathe…just think about that for a moment.
I have been thinking hard about the water and the solar, although I don’t own this house, I think I could give perswading Mum and Dad to do it…however, with those prices and the thought if taxing in the future, well, the government’s lost my vote.
So much for people power…
Its simple.
Make it mandatory for Solar panels and water tanks to go in to existing homes and make it cheap, as subsidising us is cheaper than building new powerstations and reservoirs. We can use the excess energy in the panels to feed back into the grid and as nooknook quite correctly states. The water tanks can water our gardens, feed our toilets and not overstretch our valuable water supplies.
New estates should, by law, have a small solar station and grey water (third pipe system) installed for the estates use, and the land owners would contribute to that as part of the land sale cost with a power company and water company providing the maintenance for a fee that is included in the rates!
Its simple no… NO its not, the problem is one of economics…..these darn private companies would not make any $$s if we did this, discouraging investment in this state and thus stuffing up the incumbent state government and the kick backs that they get (pure speculation on my part of course
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POLITICS!!!
Arrgghhh, i’ve had it with dumb ass thinking from Governments. nooknook I agree 100% with you.
COCO!