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What is my book that I am talking? I make my money in the power industry for sure but lately my vested interest is far more in the fossil side. How does that make me biased? And where exactly am I wrong? You're doing an absolutely terrible job of proving me wrong if that's your aim.

What are you talking about now Sunfish? For absolute full disclosure, yet again, it has been well over a year since I last was involved in wind farm developments. Since then I have been helping people build gas turbines, diesel and gas engines and transmission lines and substations. And even...

Just to clarify retailers pay tariffs to generators not the other way around... the only people generators pay are their suppliers, coal and gas companies and the ATO. BTW the transmission companies on the east coast are generally gold plating their networks. It's the obvious result of a...

I agree. Union membership has declined to the point where unions are increasingly irrelevant to the vast majority of the population. Their continued involvement in politics is anachronistic and unsustainable. Either the ALP pulls the plug on the unions and reinvent itself as a moderate...

Totally agree - along with the rest of his team. John Hewson was another example - when calling for an early election... Hewson: "Why won't you call an election?" Keating: "Because I want to do you slowly." Keating really did "do him slowly". It echoes today's calls for an early...

Far more a statement of how tax reform of any sort gets blown out of all proportion by hysterical opponents before the dust settles - just like the GST was going to be the end of the world. There's a lesson here - if you don't know what you're talking about and hype up massive risk about...

I agree I'm speculating - just as much as anyone claiming she "had to do it". Personally I think she didn't hold her nerve in negotiating with the Greens and underestimated the impact that one statement she made in the heat of an election campaign would have. But them's the breaks in...

David You assert that Julia had to do this deal with the Greens when that is clearly not the case. If she offered the Greens the current package but without the initial 3 year fixed price period we wouldn't be having this discussion. What would the Greens have done with such an offer...

I'd turn that around. What is good enough for everyone else should be good enough for the Prime Minister. And it seems to be - not much chance of her survival now and the biggest single reason for that to me is not the carbon tax, it is lying about it. BTW politicians tell lies in an...

Misleading and deceptive conduct is illegal under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 as it was under its predecessor the Trade Practices Act. These provisions are administered by the ACCC, not the secret police. Telling lies to your customers has been illegal in Australia for quite a long...

evand - all your links are the same...

I realise that - it's just that with a low CPI environment already, this issue is unlikely to hit particularly hard on people when it does come. As can be seen in this thread where the biggest complaint seems to be refrigerant prices...

The only prohibition is making false claims about the impact of the carbon tax. Our power and water bills clearly delineate the impact of the carbon tax, so it's definitely not a problem to blame it if it is truly to blame! BTW June quarter CPI figures are out and we have very low numbers...

BTW that doesn't make sense either, given it is also the policy of the Liberal party is to cut greenhouse emissions by 5% from 1990 levels by 2020. So, using this logic, govts of both persuasion support action on climate change and they lean on govt funded agencies to find in favour of climate...

????? Are you saying most of the governments in the developed world, of both political persuasions, have an interest in faking climate change science? Given how easy it is to deal with as a political issue, I suppose? :confused:

BTW out of interest, who in the following list would you classify as an alarmist? CSIRO Bureau of Meteorology National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Royal Societies UK and NZ National Science Academies of all the other G8+5 Countries American Chemical Society American Institute...

Whatever you think you heard, it's wrong. The Coalition's Direct Action Plan will The Labor Target is the same from memory but I'm too lazy to look it up. BTW, the Liberals have this policy because it is clear it is what the majority of people want. Either that or Tony Abbott...

Your overwhelming evidence has convinced me. Now you just have to convince the Liberal Party, who the majority of Australians support to reduce our emissions by 5% by 2020, which is of course the same as the current target. With both major parties supporting the same emission reduction...

Who said that? I remember both myself and BT saying base load generators are completely unnecessary, particularly as they don't follow the load, by definition.

Not really. Both the increase in prices due to the CT and the increase in utility prices are essentially "one-off" events - neither are annual increases. There wasn't an annual increase in utilities for any of the prior ten years. Sure, you can take a few year's CPI off the utility number if...