Our power bills are going up again

and it seems that almost nobody is even daring to complain about this for fear of being thought a "climate change denier".

Alexander Downer, former Foreign Minister and High Commissioner in the UK, has a regular column in the state newspaper. This morning he has pointed out that the residents of this state pay the most for power anywhere in the country. 

We also have the most reliance on "renewables", the most frequent fluctuations and the greatest need to import power from another state.  This is not something which is mentioned in the media and most certainly not something mentioned by those responsible for supplying our energy needs. 

Companies with high energy needs go elsewhere for the most part. Those who do stay here stay because they get propped up by tax payers. Our local council has taxed us in order to provide "free" solar panels to those who do not already have them. The cost benefit of doing this has been negative, not the positive the Mayor would have us believe.

All this is being done without a plan of any sort. There are "bits" being done here and there and "pieces" being done there and here. Nobody seems to be absolutely certain what the solution is or who is doing what or even when some of it will be done. There is no national solution. We just keep hearing "renewables, renewables" and "infrastructure" and "it will take more...".

Yes, it is a mess. It is a mess which is going to get worse if people are not a great deal more realistic and do not start working together. What is happening right now is not, as many would have us believe, about "climate change" and "net zero". This is about power games in politics and the money to be made from pursuing policies that have not been properly thought through.

Many of us will try to take care of the environment around us but it will not succeed if politics, policies and financial power take precedence.