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WITHOUT Access To Massive Taxpayer Subsidies There Would Be No “Green Energy Revolution”

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ONE of the great propaganda lines of the climate change industry is the boom in ‘green energy jobs’ meme.

TAKE this example out of The Daily Advertiser:

Renewable energy: powering Australia in more ways than one

NO one would deny that job creation is a good thing especially in regional centres and remote locations in Australia. Areas with often high rates of unemployment and limited opportunity.

BUT, where the ‘green energy jobs’ argument falls down is not only in the longevity of the  full-time jobs available after installation, but in the fact that these jobs are a direct result of green central planning. Green jobs are like ‘Fiat money’ – a currency without intrinsic value established as money, often by government regulation.

WITHOUT massive government subsidies, estimated at $60 BILLION by 2030 under the Australian government’s RET (Renewable Energy Target), their would be no ‘green’ jobs as advertised by The Daily Advertiser. The private sector simply will not invest in weather-dependent ‘energy’ sources when in competition with cheap, efficient, reliable base-load sources like coal and gas on a dollar-for-dollar or subsidy-equalised basis.

Warren Buffet sums it up nicely:

“We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett

TELLINGLY, the piece by James Wright (chief executive officer of the Future Business Council) in The Daily Advertiser not once mentions the private sector as a direct player in the ‘green jobs boom’. His argument relies solely on government and politicians:

Policy uncertainty due to ongoing internal squabbles in the Federal Government is strangling the growth of this sector…”

“If politicians could simply commit to a modest and achievable 50 per cent renewable energy target, this would create 28,000 new jobs…”

“we can’t let backwards politics spoil this once in a generation opportunity…”

BEWARE The Big Government Blob!

WE only have to look at Germany’s €TRILLION green energy disaster – Energiewende – that has trashed the German economy, destroyed her industrial heartland and left hundreds of thousands of German’s disconnected from the grid, unable to pay their power bills.

GREEN central planning like economic planning of failed socialist regimes gone by is doomed for failure. Market distorting policies that pick winners only work until the money runs out.

THIS is the intrinsic problem faced when big government and statist green central planning displaces the commercial sector. Market mechanisms are eliminated, the very mechanisms that promote checks and balances and ensure accountability to make sure stuff works.

THE “green” energy revolution with its touted “green jobs” is largely survived by rent-seeking corporations entering the “save the planet” sector in pursuit of the lucrative government funds, grants and subsidies on offer, supported pro bono by the virtue-signalling, “save the planet” mainstream media.

GREEN JOBS?

WHAT is set to be Australia’s largest wind farm will provide only 20 full-time jobs once it goes into ­operation next year…

Australia’s biggest wind farm to generate just 20 full-time jobs

“Renewables are a welcome part of the energy mix but they don’t sustain long-term jobs or provide baseload power,” said Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington.

“Renewables are a welcome part of the energy mix but they don’t sustain long-term jobs or provide baseload power,” said Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington.

What is set to be Australia’s largest wind farm will provide only 20 full-time jobs once it goes into ­operation next year.

Construction started yesterday on AGL’s $850 million ­Coopers Gap wind farm at Cooranga North, 250km west of Brisbane, 10 years after it was proposed. The state government, which is committed to a 50-50 split between renewable energy and fossil fuel energy production by 2030, has endorsed the project, with Energy Minister Anthony Lynham turning the first sod.

Two hundred jobs will be created during construction of the 123-turbine, 453 megawatt facility, which will provide enough power for 260,000 homes.

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During the election campaign in November, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk spruiked her clean energy policy at the under-­construction Clare Valley Solar Farm in north Queensland — a project that will employ up to 350 people during construction, but offer only five to 10 jobs once ­operational.

Australia’s biggest wind farm to generate just 20 full-time jobs | The Australian

PUFF PIECE ADVICE

ADVICE to marketers of the unreliable-energy jobs ‘revolution’. May I suggest lobbying the private sector and extolling the virtues of so-called “cheap, clean and green” energy to them, rather than writing propaganda, puff pieces in the daily rags and insulting the intelligence of your audience…the ones who now have to pay the highest power prices in the world thanks to the unreliable energy ‘revolution’!

DO let me know if any private sector orgs will take up an investment opportunity in the unreliabels sector without access to the $60 Billion taxpayer-funded RET…

H/t Craig Havenaar @Havenaar64

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15 Comments on “WITHOUT Access To Massive Taxpayer Subsidies There Would Be No “Green Energy Revolution””

  1. nottrampis says:

    I have one word for for you externailties.
    Bring in a carbon tax or an ETS and there is no need for subsidies. without them there is.

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    • Jamie Spry says:

      And a carbon tax or ETS will change the weather? Chief Scientist Alan Finkel admitted in Senate estimates; even if Australia ended all emissions from cars, power stations, factories and cows, the difference to the climate would be “virtually nothing”. But the difference to the economy would be devastating. https://climatism.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/unreliable-energy-wind-and-solar-a-climate-of-communism/

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      • nottrampis says:

        No that is not the point of a carbon tax although that would happen. A carbon tax or ETS merely enables a the true of a product to be priced.
        coal has obvious externailties which has large negative effects on society.

        without a carbon tax/ETS a subsidy is the second best solution.

        you do know under hot temperatures coal powered stations are very unreliable yes? We have seen that this year in victoria, NSW and Qld.

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        Like economic planning in failed socialist regimes gone by, green central planning is in lock-step, leading to fuel poverty, job losses and environmental carnage (wind/solar parks)

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      • nottrampis says:

        What in the hell are you talking about. A carbon tax/ETS enables the market to determine what will occur. Put Pigou into your browser

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        I don’t believe, at all, in Carbon taxes. Sorry.

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      • nottrampis says:

        Then you are saying coal has no detrimental effects which is mad. Sorry.

        At present consumers are subsidising coal because its true costs are not reflected in its price.

        however given renewables are now cheaper than coal for power stations it may prove to be all problematioc

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        Unreliables are “cheaper than coal” LOL. When they are taxed and subsidised out of the market by RET, yes for sure! But one for one – you’re reading way too much Guardian there champ.

        Wind and Solar subsidies FAR outweigh coal subs. RET to 2030 is currently set at $60 Billion.

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      • nottrampis says:

        no merely seeing what the market is doing.
        Everyone involved in the industry thinks the same way so the maths are no different to investors or bankers.

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        Maybe this will help ease your climate pain: Fresh off the press…

        “THE PAUSE” Lives On : Global Temperature Cools Back To Post-1998 El Niño Levels https://climatism.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/the-pause-lives-on-global-temperature-cools-back-to-post-1998-el-nino-levels/

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      • nottrampis says:

        There NEVER was a pause. That has been convincingly shown in a number of areas. Tamino has been very prominent in that.

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        Tamino. LOL.

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      • nottrampis says:

        Yes a man who understands statistics particularly autocorrelation which a lot of deniers obviously do not!

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        “Belief” and “Denial” are the words of zealots, not scientists.

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      • Jamie Spry says:

        Cool

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