Finally, the rebellion begins in the business sector
After years of silence, the first large industry body has broken the Climate Stupid Spell and said the obvious. There is a “national energy emergency” pushing up the price of food, and the cause of high energy prices is Labor’s 82% renewables target.
The Independent Food Distributors Australia (IDFA) which supplies food to 60,000 shops and markets in Australia has broken with other large industry bodies and said the government should drop the “ideological” renewables target and upgrade our coal power plants and install new gas plants.
For years, only school girls were allowed to dictate national energy policy, now adults in business can too!
The food industry lives and breathes on fossil fuels for their fridges, freezers and trucks, and electricity costs have got up 50% since Labor came into office. So two weeks after King Trump takes office, and with only weeks or months until our own election, finally they brave up enough to say the Renewables Emperor has no clothes. Give Richard Forbes (the CEO) a medal — he is blistering and blunt. He didn’t just ask the Labor Party to slow the rush, but to “drop it” because of the “damage being done”. He said the Labor Party must take responsibility for the cost of living crisis.
Calling climate change targets ideological is a blasphemy like burning the climate bible. There’s no pandering in that word. Forbes could have said the Labor Party target is too ambitious, or unrealistic. But instead he used the word ideological — thus declaring the net zero push it’s irrational, and driven by religious zeal.
The managing director of Godden Food Group went even further, calling on the Opposition leader in Australia to “join Donald Trump in leaving the Paris Agreement”. Some of his four year electricity contracts have been renewed in NSW at 238% higher cost.
This is dynamite in an election year:
Food firms revolt over Labor’s energy plan
Employers supplying food to major supermarkets and thousands of cafes, restaurants and pubs have launched a revolt against Anthony Albanese’s energy policies, urging Labor to dump its 82 per cent renewables target and focus on ramping up more gas and coal production to bring electricity prices down in the short term.
Business owners in the sector have told The Australian they want the government to drop its “ideological” approach to energy and instead support upgrades of existing coal-fired power stations while bringing on new gas peaking plants.
Employers also want the government to fast track the approvals of new coal mines and gas fields to lower the price of baseload power, disagreeing with Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s claim that new renewables projects are the answer to lower prices.
IFDA chief executive Richard Forbes said there was a “national energy emergency”, arguing the government’s policies were driving up the price of food for consumers.
“Food businesses are sick and tired of hearing the government saying they are doing something about the cost of living, when their costs, particularly energy costs, are soaring.
“The government must take responsibility for a portion of the cost-of-living crisis, which is the cost of doing business, which is energy.
In reply, the Minister Chris “Blackout” Bowen sticks with the ideological fairy tale, blaming failing coal plants for high prices:
Rejecting the push from food distributors, a spokesman for Mr Bowen said experts had found that “unreliable coal generators are driving price spikes”. “Extending them further would be a recipe for disaster,” the spokesman said.
He speaks as though aiming for “no coal plants”will fix a problem caused by a lack of coal plants. The argument is so self-evidently stupid, as long as it is played out in public to its obvious end, the Labor Party will be fried on screen.
This is the dead-end electricity hole the innumerate dullard left have galloped into. They think that magically generating a $650 electricity rebate is the same thing as generating electricity. One method makes us stronger and richer while the other just steals tax or purchasing power from average Australians to hide the real cost.
The Labor tools of oligarchs, renewable investors and foreign powers couldn’t see past the namecalling and word-games, and fell for every kindergarten trick in the Book of Woke. If the conservatives (which fell for most of the same tricks) can get their acts together and copy Trump, there could be bloodbath.
‘$658 energy rebate’, what’s that.
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Our local Coles (in Grafton) had a compressor fail overnight in their freezer section, and had to throw out $200,000 worth of spoiled food. Having the threat of regular power failures giving the same result seems to have concentrated the minds of our huge frozen and refrigerated food sector. This is a survival issue.
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(238% increase), and it’s still early days for the CO2 tax, yet to really ramp up, more electricity increases coming.
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“Rejecting the push from food distributors, a spokesman for Mr Bowen said experts had found that “unreliable coal generators are driving price spikes”. “Extending them further would be a recipe for disaster,” the spokesman said.”
I wonder where these fools think cheap reliable power came from for the 50 years prior to “renewables”?
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Exactly, you only need to go look at recent history (50 years is a short time), to know he’s speaking bulltish. But is the average punter capable of doing that, especially the ones that run on “feelings”?
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Bowen is living proof that you can’t argue with stupid.
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.. and fasttrack coal! Great.
We have 300 years of coal. And in Victoria we are not allowed use it or sell it, but it powers the state and many others.
It’s not about CO2. A new HELE station would halve CO2 and double the amount of coal.
Are we just keeping it in the ground for China?
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And if you want to halve electricity prices, I can give you a list of Federal Acts to repeal which would do it overnight.
Australia would have no debts if we did not send all our electricity money overseas and to buy windmills and solar panels and save the Great Barrier Reef and build Snowy II and invest in Quantum Computing. The last three are courtesy of two prime ministers.
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“Calling climate change targets ideological is a blasphemy like burning the climate bible.”
In view of the recent murder of a Koran burner in Sweden and the very swift arrest of a man who burned a Koran in Manchester in England by members of a police force that turned a blind eye to the so-called “grooming gangs” Jo shouldn’t you have compared climate change blasphemy to burning a Koran, not a Bible?
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Thanks Jo and nobody seems to understand that Labor, Greens, Teals want to destroy thousands of klms of our environments and WASTE TRILLIONs of $ for nothing for just 15 years and tear the toxic mess down and repeat again and again.
And they want to risk our security forever and China, Iran, Russia, Nth Korea etc will relish our weakness and just wait for their chance to make their move.
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The environmental movement allowed itself to be overtaken by hysterics.
There are intrinsic hysterics in the subject, but hysterics raise money.
The NGO, advocacy industry complex, is an interesting (in a car crash way) phenomenon that has developed in modern Western ‘democracies’ and the Climate issue may be fast tracking the inevitable clash of this advocacy industrial complex and representative political structures.
This invasion of hysterics has manifested Trump.
It has destroyed Europe, maybe Canada and Oz.
And Trump is facing a Sisyphian task.
Here is a vid of the recent US Democrat confab to elect a new party chair.
‘A woke civil WAR inside the Democratic Party! (cringe vs cringe)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Du-gZ9Frk
Climate hysterics crashed the meeting and turned it into a farce.
Progressive adults are being humiliated by their Adderall addled children.
The profitability and utility of political hysteria has created an existential crisis in the Western world.
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Would like to add …
The NGO, advocacy industry complex mostly had spooky origins (USAID) and has been utilized for spooky and obscure intentions, which may be simply to maintain constant political turmoil.
Because some people like torturing small animals and those types often seek key leadership positions as to gain more access to the tools of small animal torture.
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https://www.orcuttchristian.org/Lewis%20CS%20-%20God_in_the_Dock.pdf
My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. But to be punished, however severely, because we have deserved it, because we ‘ought to have known better’, is to be treated as a human person made in God’s image.
In reality, however, we must face the possibility of bad rulers armed with a Humanitarian theory of punishment. A great many popular blue prints for a Christian society are merely what the Elizabethans called ‘eggs in moonshine’ because they assume that the whole society is Christian or that the Christians are in control. This is not so in most contemporary States. Even if it were, our rulers would still be fallen men, and, therefore, neither very wise nor very good.
As it is, they will usually be unbelievers. And since wisdom and virtue are not the only or the commonest qualifications for a place in the government, they will not often be even the best unbelievers.
The practical problem of Christian politics is not that of drawing up schemes for a Christian society, but that of living as innocently as we can with unbelieving fellow-subjects under unbelieving rulers who will never be perfectly wise and good
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I believe that the Australians will wake up only when they can not anymore afford to cool the amber nectar.
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