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Chris Bowen’s renewable energy agenda is driving power prices higher, leaving Australians paying the price for Labor’s decision to abandon reliable coal-fired electricity.

It takes a special kind of stupid to close down coal-fired power stations before having anything to replace them.

But Chris Bowen is a special kind of stupid.

The Energy Minister’s admission that the government has “more work to do” to bring down power prices will go down as one of history’s great understatements.

Bowen — prancing around Turkey as President of Negotiations at COP31 — made the comment when asked about a report that power prices would double within the next three years.

Apparently, Bowen believes that the secret to cheaper electricity is to make it increasingly expensive.

Perhaps it’s an advanced economic theory.

Or perhaps it’s what happens when you put an ideologue in charge of the power supply and mistake his religious convictions for an energy policy.

It’s certainly more hope than science.

Yes, yes… Isaac Newton once quipped that ‘what goes up must come down’. But power prices don’t respond to gravity.

Under Chris Bowen, the price of energy is a rocket — fuelled by an endless supply of taxpayer dollars — going up and up until it is completely beyond the reach of ordinary Australians.

The irony of Bowen’s admission that the government has more work to do is that the more work they do, the more power prices rise.

Closing Coal Before Replacements Are Ready

Bowen’s answer to the high cost of renewable energy is to make us even more reliant on renewable energy.

It’s a little like trying to put out a house fire with petrol because the water bill has become too expensive.

The problem, though, as pointed out by Rystad senior analyst David Dixon, is that we are exiting coal at double the rates at which we’re building renewables

And if you can’t see the problem with that, congratulations, you’re perfectly qualified for an executive position in Chris Bowen’s department…

There was zero reason to inflict high power prices on Australians over the past couple of years.

The closing of coal-fired power stations before we had enough energy to replace them was pure ideological virtue signalling by a hopelessly incompetent government.

Chris Bowen is completely out of his depth while being empowered to waste billions of taxpayers’ dollars without any personal consequences.

It’s you and I who pay the price.

Labor’s Promises Don’t Match Reality

Housing Minister Clare O’Neill typifies the idiocy that typifies this Labor Government.

She went on breakfast television yesterday morning and said,

“We’re really focused on trying to bring energy costs down for households because electricity is too expensive in Australia.”

You have to laugh. Actually, laughing is about the only thing you can do since laughing is about the only thing not yet taxed by this government.

O’Neill says the government is really focused on bringing down energy costs?

Everything the government does makes energy costs go up!

And then she helpfully adds,

“Electricity is too expensive in Australia.”

It is. But it never used to be.

So what happened? I mean, apart from Anthony Albanese. And Chris Bowen. And Clare O’Neill.

They took a good, cheap system, trashed it, and replaced it with an unreliable and expensive system.

But don’t worry. Power prices will go down, just as soon as they go up.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Adobe.