Pollies who have a clue do exist!!!

smart move.....and you can sell your Waeco before you go too :-)

Reiner

Nothing like a bit of Swiss bush!

seemed extremely light on with details - yea they have geothermal for heating but as for the rest. Bio fuels utilizing forests - what does that mean chopping them down and burning them? Wind and wave power is still uneconomic compared to burning coal. It mentions Brazil with there ethonal - Well our sugar industry is enviromentally unfreindly enough as it is without expanding it. All sounds warm and Fluffy but the devil is often in the detail

Move to Sweden? I hope you like taxes cause theirs make our ripoff governments look like amateurs at the taxing game

Here is a small extract from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

The welfare state requires high taxes, but the population is generally affirmative of this. Sweden has a two step progressive tax scale with a municipal income tax of about 30% and a high income state tax of about 55% that kicks in when you earn more than about 300 000 SEK. The employing company pays an additional 32% of so called Employers fee. In addition, a national VAT of 25% is added to many things bought by private citizens except food (12% VAT), transports and books (6% VAT) with the exception of petrol/diesel (150% VAT)

The high rates of income taxation in combination with very influencial labour unions have kept differences in income at a minimum, resulting in little reward for individuals going through higher eduction as compared to individuals who start working for a living at an earlier age.