By Andrew Bolt ~
In Australia, the State of Victoria’s new Socialist Left Labor Party Government has a cunning plan to make power prices higher in a state where manufacturing business are struggling:
Victoria wants to go its own way and set a state-based Renewable Energy Target.
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio said a state-based RET would lead to greater investment and more jobs in places like Ballarat, Ararat, Warrnambool and Port Fairy.
That’s one way of putting it. The other way is to say the Government will force consumers to use more expensive green power, transferring money from consumers to green carpetbaggers, giving them a profit they would never get in the open market. This is propping up uncompetitive businesses at the potential cost of closing others.
And for what? It is simply staggering that a government would inflict this damage when this green power would in fact make absolutely no measurable difference to global warming, which actually stopped 17 years ago anyway.
This is insane.
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Andrew Bolt’s columns appear in Melbourne’s Herald Sun, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Adelaide’s Advertiser. He runs the most-read political blog in Australia and hosts Channel 10’s The Bolt Report each Sunday at 10am. He is also heard from Monday to Friday at 8am on the breakfast show of radio station MTR 1377, and his book Still Not Sorry remains very widely read.
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