Carbon Tax and Me

Since the announcement of the Carbon Tax by the Prime Minister on Sunday media commentators have been asking people to call in/tweet/comment on the Tax and how it would affect their lives and families.
So how will it affect me?
My family income is above the $85,000 but nowhere near the $150,000 - $200,000. So we will get something from the household compensation package.
We have recently changed our solar-electric hot water system to a solar-gas hot water system at some cost to ourselves. We used the 2x $900 handout from the Federal Government (2 years ago) to purchase 1 KwH of Solar Electric Photovoltaic Panels and will keep an eye out for any decrease in cost/ improvement in technology to increase this if possible.
We are looking at Double Glazing part of our windows, though without any cost estimates as yet this may be delayed again.
And the triple-burn, enclosed wood fire is our main heating at night.
I am pleased there will be a $10 billion Renewable Energy fund but whether this will be aimed at the small consumer or to raise the $$ for large renewable energy research and development is not clear to me. I suspect the fund is there to benefit the latter stuff and hope Solar-Thermal and Geo-Thermal developments get going quickly to try and answer the critics regarding base-load power generation.(Note considerable rise in stock prices of some of these firms - you might have got a bit richer yesterday)
While watching Julia Gillard answering questions on Q and A, I noticed that she failed to convince many of the questioners. I wonder if the lady who asked her to simplify her answers got what she needed.
Hopefully, simplifying the conversation about the Carbon Tax doesn't lose sight of a number of scientific, moral and competitive reasons it was brought in. Many of the tweets were spot on with their comments.
I did like one of her last statements to the question " Can the Prime Minster guarantee the Carbon Price won't rise?" by Suleman Khan, NSW. Quick as a whippet she replied "Absolutely none", as she explained the whole point is for the price to rise. I would have liked more direct language like that. Download the transcript and see for yourself.
No Prime Minister can guarantee all your jobs, that interest rates will or won't rise (or decrease), that all people make the right decisions. After all we are an irrational race, especially seduced by simplified language for complex questions that require more attention than even Q and A can give.
So I urge all doubters to keep asking, keep reading and wait to see if the sky falls in from this time next year. I survived the GST (10%) price increase without bi-partisan support.
Time will tell if the price on Carbon will change both the "Big Polluters" behaviour as well as our own. So download the plan from http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/our-plan/ and read it yourself.