Labor’s Terri Butler concedes the Brisbane seat of Griffith   
May 22 2022
Daily Telegraph
Labor’s Terri Butler has officially conceded that she has lost the inner-city Brisbane electorate of Griffith to her Greens challenger Max Chandler-Mather.

Ms Butler has been a long-time member for Griffith but Labor’s vote was eroded by a resurgent Greens party.   

The Greens have a strong chance of winning three lower house seats in Brisbane, as voters in affluent areas prioritise stronger action on climate change.

yep, brisbane people have a lot of trauma around floods.

the farmer west of brisbane is in tune with nature andf understands its power.

the urban dweller is not used to adversity

water rising and disturbing his safe space makes him go crazy

when the greens say they can control the climate  , the frightened children in urban brisbane actually are foolsih enough to believe them

nothing is going to stop mother nature and these people are living in a fools paradise

you cant outrun your destiny

its going to get worse and this is inevitable

The share of fossil fuels in the total global energy consumption mix remained steady. Coal, oil and gas accounted for 80.3% of the mix in 2009 and 80.2% of the mix in 2019. This was despite an increase in the proportion of total global energy consumption met with renewables, from 8.7% to 11.2%, across that ten-year period.

fossil fuels arent going away.

more floods are coming.

electing snake oil salesmen from the greens wont stop what is going to happen.

the chances that you will get global co operation on reducing emissions is zero.

one only needs to look at the bushfire catastrophe of 2019 to see what happens when you let the greens look after national parks and state forrests.

the evolutionary blowtorch is coming for the urban lefties.

they are actually making it worse following green policies.

i predict a large increase in blackouts due to unreliable energy security.

i have a couple of generators

lets see how the urban elite cope when the power starts going down on a resular basis.

i suppose they could always move to beiging or mumbai where the government understands energy security is economic security 

ProudKangaroo wrote on May 23^rd, 2022 at 11:09am:






yep.

with our much higher wages and much higher electricity costs we could stop buying things from china


we could make everything here.


Though i think when skippy is asked to pay $6000 for an iphone or $100 for a t shirt , he might be even sadder then he is now

ProudKangaroo wrote on May 23^rd, 2022 at 3:42pm:



you havent been paying attention if you say i am "anti-china'

i am a great admirer of much of what china has done and is doing
(like exporting solar panels and wind turbines to OZ whilst hoovering up our iron and coal).

but we'll just see whether your renewables deliver on cheaper energy prices and less blackouts

John Smith wrote on May 23^rd, 2022 at 4:41pm:



Higher wholesale prices in specific regions of the National Electricity Market will impact the prices customers pay over time.” At the start of the year, the future wholesale price was $81 a megawatt hour for the 2022 calendar year in NSW and $70 in Queensland. The current price is $132 and $114

As for Germany, it has only maintained its reliability by continuing to operate fossil fuel power plants of all types including lignite coal, not by building more transmission lines and batteries. Of the 56% of German electricity from carbon-free sources, nearly half (24% overall) came from nuclear, hydroelectric dams, and biomass, which are far more reliable than solar and wind.

And, last month, Germany’s independent federal government auditor warned in strong language that adding more weather-dependent energy sources increases the risk of blackouts. “Now the energy transition is becoming a danger for all of Germany,” read the headline of Die Welt, a leading German newspaper, on March 31, 2021. “The costs are out of control and there is a threat of an electricity shortage.”


https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2021/04/20/why-renewables-caus...