Green Energy is Part of the Past, not Fuel for the Future

The growing failure of green energy in Europe should warn Australia to abandon bi-partisan policies dictating targets, mandates and subsidies for “green” energy.

I grew up at the end of the last green energy era – solar energy powered our growing crops and dried the washing, but it was weak in winter and ceased under clouds and at night; wind energy pumped water, but only when the wind blew; draft horses powered farm machinery, but they had to be fed whether they were working or not; wood gave us home heating and cooking, but it consumed energy to collect and chop it up; kids walked to school or rode bikes or ponies and ladies took the horse and sulky.

Our only help from carbon energy was kerosene for the kitchen lamp and coke used to smelt and forge the metals for farm tools and machinery.

We also practiced “sustainability” – we purchased little, and most of the farm produce was consumed on the farm by family, farm labourers and draft horses.

We were rescued from this life of sustained labour by carbon energy – a kerosene-powered tractor, a petrol-powered truck, and coal-powered electricity for lighting, heating, cooking, refrigeration, milking machines and pumps. The horses and farm labour were no longer needed and, for once, the farm produced a decent surplus of food for the growing cities.

Wind, solar, wood and muscle power are tools of the past and they work no better now than they did then. Forcing people to use these ancient technologies will just return us to laborious poverty on the farms and hunger in the cities.

Green energy should not be forced on consumers - those who want it should pay for it.

Green energy will eventually be abandoned, but the cost rises for each day’s delay.

Election day:

Something to remember:

It was Labor PM Kevin Rudd, supported by the Greens, who gleefully committed all Australians to the costly, unnecessary and now totally discredited Kyoto Agreement (Dec 2007). And it was Senator Penny Wong, a minister in both Rudd governments, who pushed her costly complex and now discredited Emissions Trading Scheme through the same parliament in 2009.

It was Labor PM Julia Gillard leading a Labor/Green coalition in July 2011 who introduced the now discredited carbon tax.

Therefore the first rule for anyone supporting a return to Carbon Sense is this:

Put every Labor/Green Candidate last.

Viv Forbes,

Rosewood    Qld   Australia
[email protected]

Comments

[Jim Witt]

1.

I will be putting Labor second last and the Greens last when I vote, even though the Libs want us to put One Nation last, I will elevate them above Labor and the Greens and urge others to do likewise.

[Anton]

2.

I will have the pleasure of putting Wayne Swan last on my ballot.

( I think he has joined Clive Palmer actually, his posters are all in PUP yellow with no Labor logo to be seen at all)

[dB]

3.

Viv, this article was doing so well until your Election Day Things to Remember summary at the bottom. Surely another thing worth remembering is the the LNP want to spend 3 billion dollars on carbon reduction schemes, and get 1 million solar roofs installed.

[AlterEgo]

4.

They want to set up a Green Army of 15,000 to wander the countyside planting trees.

How that would work has not been explained - maybe it is a non-core promise.

[dB]

5.

So that got me looking around to see which parties' climate policies best match Viv's views. Family First seems to be a very close match:

http://familyfirst.org.au/climate-change/

I think Palmer United is a pretty good match, although their webpage is fairly light on detail for any of their policies.

I was expecting Katter's Australian Party to be in there too, but was proven completely wrong by this:

http://www.kattersaustralianparty.com.au/policies/climate-and-environment.html

[AlterEgo]

6.

Want a laugh - this add is next to Viv's post!

Solar Energy
EnergyAustralia.com.au/SolarEnergy
3.29kW Solar System for just $5,499
Inc Free Fronius Upgrade & Install

[dB]

7.

They're about to be laughing all the way to the bank courtesy of Abbott's million solar roofs scheme.