ALP are going to make it harder for you. And a lot more people will be out of a job andye says: 04:23pm | 14/09/11 @gangusk - Inelastic? Is that why AGL has forecast soft demand for gas and electricity, citing high prices as part of the reason? Time and time again, people say that demand wont change with price on certain things... and yet it does. The more power costs, the more we will be careful using it. Almost every argument against the carbon price working from a market perspective seems to include at least one magical exception to the rule. Power is different! Companies will just raise prices and demand wont fall! AJ says: 06:18pm | 14/09/11 gangusk Apologies, the numbers seem to be changing on a daily basis.  The last I've heard, was that 20% of people will be over compensated, the next 50% if not fully, as close as it gets, and the next 30% partially.  Irrespective, what I'm asking is still valid, those that are compensated, will they use more, the same or less? Gary Cox says: 06:37am | 14/09/11 WTF? It is a tax on carbon. Given it's not a tax on everyone on everything in the way that the GST is, but one way or the other everyone will pay. A simple example is transport. Gillard claims that it will encourage transport companies to upgrade to more 'energy efficient' plant, but blind Freddy can see that in the short term at least transport