Despite all the glossy rhetoric of our Prime Minister and Penny Wong, nothing, excluding lip service, has been done so far, to attack the looming menace of Global Warming.

There are many powerful economic interests wanting to maintain the status quo: Car Manufactures, Oil Companies, the Carbon industry.

All of them want to implement a carbon trading system in which those with enough cash will be able to continue polluting and the rest of us will have to curtail consumption.

The pusillanimous does not make history Mr Rudd. We could already be imposing bans on the usage of private cars on peak hours. This measure not only would reduce carbon emissions dramatically but also it would clear the way for a more effective public transport.

The Federal Government could impose a ban from seven to ten in the mornings on private cars and at the same time expand public transport services, which would have almost empty roads to deliver passengers. Is it so hard to implement. It is certainly not.

Why is the Federal Government so inert on policies that can be easily implemented and policed and that will certainly have an enormous impact on emissions immediately?

Even George Bush in the US of A, running a astronomical deficit, due to his attack on Iraq, managed to triple the investment in public transport.

We, instead, having one of the greatest surpluses on record, have decided to keep it in a future fund.

We must invest that money now to optimize the public transport system and at the same time start reducing dramatically the use of our private cars, which are substantially responsible for the relentless increases in carbon emissions all over the world.

Any policy aiming at reducing the usage of internal combustion cars have been fiercely resisted. We know that a fully operational electric car, the EV1, was fully developed by GM in 2000 and that after Bush arriving at the White house, GM got them back from the customers and destroy them.

The Electric Car or EV1 was able to run at 110 miles per hour, for 90 miles, with an acceleration superior to the combustion engine car.

For those who don't believe it I invite them to purchase from Amazon the DVD: "who killed the electric car" in which all the evidence is provided.

This is an historical time Mr Rudd. There is no room for empty rhetoric to pacify the population. As being a Labour Party leader I still have hope regarding your genuine commitment to stop an unfolding environmental catastrophe. History will judge you.