SO, Bob Brown, just which part of the Garnaut report don't you understand? Or are you just having a lend of the Australian people?
The Greens' suggestion that the carbon tax they helped orchestrate should take us straight to renewables -- like wind and solar power -- bypassing gas on the way, is frankly incredible. Yesterday, Senator Brown challenged the Treasury's assumption on how a carbon price would push energy producers from coal to gas, arguing that the jury was out on the environmental advantages of gas, even though coal produces double the carbon emissions of natural gas.
These comments confirm the Greens' contempt for economics. Given present technology, the idea that wind and sun can generate the baseload power to run a modern society is laughable, and is likely to remain so for several decades. Read More
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