From Clever Country to Class Dunce
Our energy policy is one only idiots would buy.
I’m old enough to remember when they called Australia the clever country. These days we’re the class dunce.
Energy policy — or in other words the pursuance of a net zero nirvana promoted by globalists who stand to make billions from our gullibility — has turned us into fools.
We export coal but increasingly refuse to burn it ourselves. We send uranium overseas but won’t use it at home. We know nuclear power would meet energy needs and emission targets but will not consider it.
We are determined to completely dismantle our electricity grid so that it can be rebuilt with technology that is unaffordable and unreliable.
In fact, some of the technology required doesn’t even exist.
But don’t worry, she’ll be right.
Our political leaders assure us at every turn that we are on track to becoming “a green energy superpower”.
Don’t pay too much attention to the fact that green-powered Europe is being held hostage by an actual superpower?
Did I mention the latest Covid variant? And what about Meghan Markle’s new dress!
By the way, while we are becoming a clean energy, renewable powered, emissions-free, WEF-approved, mega superpower, it would be helpful if you didn’t use your appliances between 4pm and 9pm this summer.
Nothing to worry about. It’s just part of the “transition” to our amazing future. (Is that your air conditioner running? We said turn it off!)
Some people like to make a big deal about the lack of any cost/benefit analysis for this complete rewiring of Australia.
And while it’s true that none has been supplied, the rough details are well known and accepted.
It will cost billions, and it will make very little difference to the climate. Don’t say we haven’t done the math.
But don’t get fixated on actual outcomes. If governments worried about outcomes, we wouldn’t have half the programmes we do. And then how would we spend taxpayer money?
The important thing is that we now have certainty about our energy policy.
“Australia is back!” enthuses Energy Minister Chris Bowen as he travels the world posing beside electric utes that will be perfect for Australian tradies, provided they never need to haul equipment or tow anything.
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These electric vehicles will be charged for free overnight using your rooftop solar panels, according to the PM.
That is, just as soon as the government figures out how to get the sun to shine at night and how to install solar on the roof of my apartment which is inconveniently located on the fifth level of a 10-storey building.
Again, it’s just details. Don’t worry too much about them. Our politicians don’t.
A lot has been made of the government’s pre-election promise to slash power bills by $275 a year when, in fact, bills are set to rise by 35 per cent next year.
None of this fazes the unflappable Chris Bowen as he flies around the world representing us in climate negotiations while we go vegetarian to reduce emissions like the ones emitted from aircraft.
Sure the average consumer’s bill will go up by around $500 next year, but the government will still reduce bills by $275, he declares triumphantly. So the government’s promise to reduce power prices will be well and truly honoured.
That Australia seems to be buying all of this nonsense really does make us the class dunce.
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Originally published at Sky News. Republished from The James Macpherson Report.
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