This week I was chatting to one business owner and, like most in the neighbourhood, his is a family affair. They pay just shy of $50k annually in power bills. They’ve been told to expect that to double next year. Yep. From $50k to $100k in a year.

This is a scandal. There’s no other word for it. And the awful reality is, small businesses in neighbourhoods like mine, all across Australia, will be hit with this body blow. It will land on families that can absorb it, albeit resentfully, and those for whom it means they won’t eat some nights. Homes, families, neighbours and businesses like yours and mine.

Australia is hostage to this energy crisis by its own hand, and the drama is playing out in a crowded echo chamber, where fear-driven absolutism reigns. Where middle ground is not allowed in discussion, let alone policy development. Where ideology trumps intellect and to hell with the consequences. Where cautioning against a reckless rush towards over-reliance on renewables gets you shunned as an unbeliever, a "denier".
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Anthony Albanese swore on the ballot box that our household power bills would fall by more than $250 per household per year. What’s worse? Knowing it was a lie or not realising it was never going to be possible?

Which brings us to the here and now. A fraught environment in which the loudest voices outside of government pushing the green dream are elites who, from Australia’s largest homes, private planes, islands and yachts, lecture to the rest of us with an “okay proletariat, line up for your soup” kind of vibe. In a cute but not unexpected plot twist, their individual carbon footprints are the largest in the country, according to international aid agency Oxfam. Meanwhile, everyone else braces themselves for what’s to come.

In the same week federal MP for Curtin Kate Chaney suggested a resources super-profits tax would “help Australia’s most vulnerable”. What an odd concept. Let’s further take a bat to one of the only reliable, affordable energy sources, which will drive prices higher still, which in turn will hit lowest income earners the hardest, so we can – wait for it – help the most vulnerable. You’d be hard-pressed to make this stuff up on a bad day. This is what you get when the conversation is half-baked and full of half-truths.

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Policy absolutists are just as bad as the Christian who takes one verse from the Bible and makes a doctrine out of it. In this case, it’s the doctrine of renewables-at-all-costs that is the threat. Heaven help us all.
Gemma Tognini

"denier". When any yappy bozo like you uses the word "denier" as a counter-argument one knows you lot are full of crap.

And it's not cheap, not reliable. That's why we moved away from windmills in the 18th century.

This week I was chatting to one business owner and, like most in the neighbourhood, his is a family affair. They pay just shy of $50k annually in power bills. They’ve been told to expect that to double next year. Yep. From $50k to $100k in a year.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 12:58pm:


And no one has proven it as real.

Wrong, we moved away from windmills because technological change enabled us to.

Yes. It is an old technology.

The states had the right to impose limits to exports and what had to be held in reserve.

Even as far back as Charles Court who hasn't been in politics since 1982.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 1:31pm:


Yes. Even back to Aarhenius and Callendar they predicted any warming benign. It was warmer in the MWP and the Roman Optimum which is why they are still discovering artifacts revealed by retreating glaciers,

The same technology merely larger blades.

Nope. Merely larger.

Nope Charles Court between 1974 and 1982.

"Western Australia has had a domestic gas policy since the 1970s when
Sir Charles Court's Government negotiated domestic gas supply with the North West
Shelf Joint Venture. "

https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/commit.nsf/luInquiryPublicSubmission...

[quote author=AusbetterWorld link=1666851348/82#82 date=1668312330]Good for you; but the rest of the world is ignoring you.

Nonsense. An incremental advance at best.

And nowhere did I say different. He merely updated the contracts from 30 odd years earlier.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 13^th, 2022 at 3:18pm:


The UN is an unrepresentative body that is NOT the rest of the world.

And it still suffers the same limitations. No wind means no electricity.

Did he? Can you show me where he said that? The SMH link doesn't.

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Please show where pumped hydro is primitive. So you agree that wind power is not able to provide baseload power. Thanks for that.

No it doesn't. That's why you provided a new link.

And nothing in your follow up link says anything about "vicious attacks".

How can one state "nationalize" anything?

Once again your emotions are carrying you along.