Carbon trading - how it affects the alternative fuels market

Lonsdale St power station in Melbourne, photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugley/311948163 Earlier this month, Prime Minister John Howard announced his plan for a carbon trading market for Australia, to be introduced no later than 2012. The programme aims mainly at Australia’s worst polluters - such as electricity producers and select areas of industry - but also allows for low-emission businesses to benefit by selling their carbon allocation to heavier polluting businesses, ideally encouraging the growth of low-emission industries. But how does this affect the alternative fuels industry in Australia?

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