While Australia is fossil fuel rich with vast coal and gas reserves, these resources are attacked now on two related fronts. First, is globalist economics, where energy prices must be in line with the global market, and if those energy costs rise, so does Australia’s because we can no longer say: these resources are ours, we have national sovereignty and set the price that locals can bear, and deserve. But, related to this is the globalist push on the climate change mania, and naturally coal and gas, as fossil fuels are regarded as “pollutants.” Renewables, such as wind and solar are supposed to fuel modern society, even though across the world, from the US to Western Europe at present, these renewables are failing to meet demands, and show reliability.
Saltbush club’s Viv Forbes is surely right that the solution to this massive threat to the Australian way of life, and indeed, Western civilisation, coming up rapidly, is to challenge the mainstream climate change narrative and to marshal public opposition against it. That seems a very difficult task, but the rising electricity and energy costs, not only in Australia, but right across the West, seemingly offers an opportunity to oppose this tyranny. Unfortunately, I do not see a mass revolt occurring pre-emptively against it, so there will be much suffering before the ordinary people fight back. But, better late than never, I suppose.
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“[A rise of ] 56 percent over the next two years—according to budget estimates—with the Labor government banking on a wider rollout of renewable energy sources to help bring down prices.
“The soaring energy costs comes despite pledges from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese prior to winning the May election that Labor’s Powering Australia plan will save households $275 per year (US$175.70).
Following the release of the budget, federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers stood firm on the federal government’s embrace of net-zero as the pathway to more affordable energy.
“Renewable energy is not just cleaner energy; it’s cheaper energy,” he told reporters on Oct. 25. “That’s understood right around the world. It’s also more reliable in the medium term and the long term when it comes to some of the geopolitical issues that we’re dealing with.”
Yet Australia sits on some of the world’s largest reserves of coal and uranium which would help service a domestic coal-fired and nuclear power industry free from global supply chains that the solar and wind companies are currently tied to.
In fact, energy lawyer Scott Schlink has said Australia imports many parts for solar panels and wind turbines from countries like South Korea and China, whose zero-COVID policy has had an impact on global supply chains in recent months.
“I’d like to see more Australian industry for manufacturing, but my cynicism comes from the fact that there have been companies trying to increase local content for a decade or two in the turbine manufacturing space, and they haven’t necessarily had a lot of success,” he previously told The Epoch Times.
Treasurer Chalmers also said the modelling that underpins the Labor Party’s Powering Australia was put together prior to the Ukraine war, which has had an impact on global energy markets.
“I think any responsible government facing these kinds of price hikes for electricity and for gas needs to consider a broader suite of regulatory interventions than they might have considered in years gone by, and we have more work to do on this,” he said.