When greenies get their way, poor people suffer. Global
warming hysteria tends to be an affliction of the affluent, who don’t have to
worry about where their next meal is coming from or how they will keep the
lights on at night. But for those lacking the leisure to hypothesize a crisis
that keeps getting stuck
on pause, the costs of green energy can wreck lives.
It is happening in Australia, in the State
of Queensland, ironically rich in coal deposits:
The Sunday
Mail of Brisbane explains in an editorial:
TODAY’S
confronting revelation that more than 464 Queenslanders a week are having their
electricity disconnected because of soaring power prices is a wake-up call to
the Labor Party. (snip)
Labor’s
zealotry on renewable energy targets is sending the country broke. (snip)
It
comes as we also reveal that the Adani coal mine project will proceed with $400
million to be pumped into the project over the next few months, creating
hundreds of jobs. This at a time when unemployment is at double-digit levels in
north Queensland.
With
a Queensland state election looming – the likely date being late October or
early November – cost-of-living pressures are emerging as a major poll issue.
In fact, power prices could emerge as the biggest single issue. (snip)
Latest
official figures from the Australian Energy Regulator show a 55 per cent leap
in the number of households that had their power cut off in the three months to
March. With more than 18,000 disconnections in the first nine months, the
2016-17 total is set to easily top last year’s 21,667. And in a further indication
of consumers’ struggle, the number of Queensland customers entering formal
payment plans with their providers has soared by a third to 42,361. Payment
plans allow consumers to pay agreed amounts in instalments – according to their
capacity and estimated usage over the coming year – to make it easier to
budget.
Welfare
specialists say people are doing it incredibly tough around cost-of-living
pressures. Mark Henley, CEO of Queensland Council of Social Service, says
energy is “the one that is really hurting people’’. Of course, it’s the regions
that once again are hit hardest. The air-conditioning costs in north Queensland
are onerous because of the heat.
Queensland
is subtropical to tropical in climate. People need their
airconditioning. If the Queensland elections turn into a referendum on
green energy policies, the results could be historic.
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