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 A month out, and already the carbon tax is ancient history.  And while no household bills have yet appeared to demonstrate the savings (or lack thereof) to the common battler, there is no doubt as to the identity of the big winners.

(Photo: The Australian)

I do not have any specific inside information on this topic, so this is only my best guess as to what Gina Rinehart has been joyfully singing as she dances through the empty corridors of her palace (cue Disney winter wonderland music)...

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Let it go,

There’s no carbon tax any more.

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Let it go,

Put more oil rigs off shore.

The snow fell late on the mountains this year.

Carbon footprint, or a dream?

A country in isolation

Burning coal, and making steam.

The wind is howling and the swirling turbines glide.

Couldn’t keep them out, Murdoch knows I tried.

Don’t let them in. Don’t let them see

Transmission lines are too costly.

Conceal the real

Cost of the pole.

Their bills will grow...

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Let it go

There’s no carbon tax any more

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Let it go,

Let’s just heat the earth some more

I don’t care

If it’s hot today

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Let it go,

The coal never bothered me anyway.

It’s funny how some distance makes Europe seem so small.

Their carbon trading system can’t get to us at all.

Out here in the smoky air

No asthmatics can breathe,

But doctors hand out puffers

To give them a reprieve.

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Let it go

There’s no carbon tax any more

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Let it go,

Let’s just heat the earth some more

I don’t care

If it’s hot today

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Let it go,

The coal never bothered me anyway.

Standing

Smoking

By the donors chosen

You won’t

Fine me

The tax is so behind me

Carbon, free to go.

Let it go

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We won’t tax that anymore

Let it go

Let it go,

Let’s just heat the earth some more

I don’t care

If it’s hot today

Let the seas rise on...

The coal never bothered me anyway!