LtE 8/5 - Crime on agenda as pollies in town

CP TB GCB - To comment on “Power bill relief for millions”, 08/05
CM – To comment on “Jim’s big budget fix for battlers”, 08/05
DT – To comment on “Jim’s big budget fix for battling Aussies”, 08/05
HS – To comment on “Chalmer’s eye on the future”, 08/05
Oz – To comment on “Jim’s $14bn dose of relief”, 08/05
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The blind ideological stupidity of federal Labor is such that Treasurer Jim Chalmers is using taxpayers’ money to subsidise the electricity bills of taxpayers because his party’s energy policies have made energy unaffordable, (“Power bill relief for millions”, 08/05).

No country has achieved cheap or abundant electricity from renewables because harvesting electricity from dilute sunlight and wind is expensive and the output is intermittent and unreliable. That is obvious to everyone not obsessed by a self-destructive ideology. There is a path to cheaper energy: build lots of new coal-fired power stations, like China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia.

If CO2 from coal-fired power stations caused global warming the seas would have risen by now and our low-lying coastal towns would be inundated at high tide. They’re not because that whole mythology is political and not scientific.

Jennifer Short
Edge Hill