The Rise and Rise of Power Bills
Despite Labor’s promises to address the rapidly increasing cost of living, their perplexing power policies keep driving the price of electricity up.
I cannot work out which is more incredible — the claims this government makes, or the fact that this government expects Australians to believe their claims.
This Labor government continually promises to reduce the cost of living while increasing the cost of living.
Their strategy to lower prices is to increase prices.
If I could afford to laugh, I would.
Renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy, the Prime Minister chants zombie-like, as prices rise in direct proportion to his use of renewable energy.
I swear every time he utters the words “renewable energy”, my power bill goes up.
Constant Contradiction
Australians are caught in a kind of twilight zone where we are continually told to expect cheaper power while continually told to expect more expensive power.
Oh, but don’t worry, you’ll still get that promised $275 cut to your power bill. It’s just that your power bill will have gone up by a couple of thousand dollars before Labor cut it by a couple of hundred dollars.
The Prime Minister will then claim, with a straight face, that he has saved us money. And my teenage son worries that he is the one struggling with math!
This is a government that believes it can keep global temperatures in check, when it can’t even keep a $275 promise to struggling families in the suburbs.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers explained today that the delay in providing the promised cut was due to a flaw in the modelling.
“That model was done in 2021, and it referred to an outcome in 2025,” he said.
But don’t worry, the government’s modelling about how taxing cow farts will stop the warming of the planet and the rising of the oceans is totally legit!
This Labor government insists that renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy, or at least it will be, just as soon as they spend another $10b of your money here, and another $10b there.
How much will it cost taxpayers to end up with cheap power?
The answer is always the same.
Just a little bit more.
If you believe the government’s obsession with intermittent energy will deliver cheap power, you have the one prerequisite necessary to do energy minister Chris Bowen’s job — wishful thinking.
Expect him to provide a unicorn with your next power bill.
Broken Promises
The government promised it would reduce power bills by $275. Now it says that promise won’t apply until 2025!
The government promised renewable energy would result in cheaper power. Now it says power prices will rise by 56 per cent over the next two years.
The government promised we would become a renewable energy superpower (whatever that means). Now a survey has shown Australians are taking shorter showers, going to bed earlier to keep warm and avoiding using their heating.
The government promised it had a plan. Now we realise they had a target foisted on them by globalists and hastily agreed to, but no plan as to how to realise it without destroying the economy and people’s lives.
It’s a disaster.
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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.
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