The idea of Pulling out of Paris is barely discussed in Australia. Tony Abbott made it a national discussion for five minutes last week, but apparently, that’s all it takes, or even less.
After 30 years of non-stop agitprop and years of bipartisan rah, rah, solemn “history in the making” cheer, the truth is Australian’s mostly don’t give a toss. All we had to do was ask them.
It’s a loaded question framed as “if pulling out could result in lower electricity prices”... Purists may protest that this overstates the result. Not so.
If we had any kind of rational national discussion it would be obvious to all that the “could” is a wishy-washy misleading and loaded term — seeding the possibility that pulling out might not lower prices.
If people knew that no nation on Earth with lots of ‘unreliables’ also had cheap electricity, even more people would want to abandon Paris.
By more than two to one, people want cheaper power, not Paris points:
Almost two-thirds, 63 percent of voters, also claimed that cheaper power should be governments’ priority with only 24 percent believing reducing emissions should take precedence.
In any normal electorate, this would be a seismic hot number. Even a quarter of Greens voters are willing to chuck Paris for cheaper power bills.
And it’s clearly a dominant issue among One Nation voters.
What better way for a rampaging Coalition to steal back center-right voters and win the center-left too?
Except they won’t — Turnbull gave up this electoral gift and almost lost the last election, all he had to do was follow Abbott’s lead.
This revealing polling comes from The Australian, under the title:
Coalition’s power pricing policies finally gaining traction with voters
The Minister for Energy and stuff spin on:
Mr. Frydenberg told The Australian he believed the country had now “turned the corner” on prices.
“When it comes to energy policy, the Turnbull government has a laser-like focus on reducing power prices,” Mr. Frydenberg said. “Everything we do is about putting the consumer first and helping create jobs across the economy. We have now turned the corner on prices, following a series of reforms to network, wholesale and retail energy markets. Wholesale power prices are down about 25 percent from the same period last year, and retail prices came down on July 1 in Queensland, NSW, and South Australia.”
Clearly, that ain’t true. If they were putting the consumer first we’d be out of Paris already, and subsidies for unreliable energy would be over.
Power prices are only “down” from their Olympic record levels. Lest we forget, decade after decade, $30/MWh.
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Of course the politicians turn a deaf ear. They are the elites and we are just the knuckle-draggers who don’t know what is good for us. That’s the same throughout the west, from most of Europe (EU is the worst) to the UK, the US and Canada, ending in Australia. That is why so much of the elite hate Trump because he doesn’t listen to them.
Regrettably, Prime Minister Turnbull and Energy Minister Frydenberg, are ideologically beholden to the Paris Accord. They have contributed to the parlous state of Australia’s domestic energy market.
Australia is rich in coal, gas, uranium and other minerals, yet consumers pay some of the highest electricity prices in the world. We export millions of tons of natural resources while closing down base-load coal-fired power stations – in order to save the planet. Australia’s CO2 emissions are estimated at less than 1.8% of world emissions but despite this, the government has a policy of phasing out coal, refuses to consider nuclear power, and is happy to see nearly all gas production exported. In its stead, the government is providing expensive subsidies to wind mill and solar panel operators. These subsidies have pushed electricity costs through the ceiling for industry and households.
Despite public anger, both these politicians turn a deaf ear to the calamitous situation we are experiencing and merely propose ineffective mickey mouse solutions.
When you are forced to pay outragiously high electroc bills all over this renewible stuff your going to get disisioined with the Go Green as well because you losing your Greenbacks
What the hell is wrong with the other 52%?
Remember that not all of the other 52% are wanting to stay in the Paris sham. There could be a substantial number who are undecided so that the hardcore idiots may be well below the percent who want out.