power prices and renewables

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by mik

Nah , all they are interested in is the green vote, the whole political system is flawed, as are all these party`s , their no 1. priority is getting power and lining their pockets, it would not matter if any party came up with the perfect plan to make this country great, ie better public transport/power/roads/schooling/infrastructure the other/s would quickly sabotage it, if they could not find something to shoot it down ..........something would be found/arranged ;), wink ,wink.

Most of the population are almost as guilty as these ******, majority of the population votes for who gives the most hand outs, not for whats best for the country.
no one even gives a toss our manufacturing has steadily declined for decades, "but hey baby i can buy a cheap import", made in Australia is almost non existent, the truth is majority don't really give a toss.
we could easily do something great with the power , we have masses of space and coastline to do stuff, but again , unless their is either money or power/votes to be had, no one wants to bother .

I think we're too far gone and heading for a big crash in the next 25 years unless we can find a new industry to bring in $$$, we can't just rely on China to buy our minerals for the rest of time, eventually they will also attempt to produce energy in a cleaner way than coal, they've already started looking into ways to clean up their country and thats included buying specific types of coal in the future.

We seem to be attracting many international students through TAFE and University to the country who are paying top $$$ to study here, maybe we put more effort into that area?

They were paying $20K a semester at my trade school when I was there and they're targeting that area specifically for more teachers at the moment, big growth area for their business.