tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post6015677796388221351..comments2024-03-29T09:45:45.406+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond runs wild and free with the horses, then salivates as it savours a simpering Savva ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24775086881005673142016-12-15T15:53:56.077+11:002016-12-15T15:53:56.077+11:00Pope has it right in his cartoon today. The Lying ...Pope has it right in his cartoon today. The Lying Nasty Party in COALition with their cronies wants to perform the same heist that their neoliberal mate Narendra Modi has just pulled off in India.<br /><br />All those hundred dollar notes, government IOUs, huge government financial obligations, all gone at a stroke. No trickle up this, a massive transfer of net wealth upwards from from the pockets of the people, and, relatively, also to their one percenter cronies. Yesterday, Kelly O'Dwyer could hardly contain her excitement at the prospect... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-50844504996439814812016-12-15T15:37:48.041+11:002016-12-15T15:37:48.041+11:00Affordable energy capital of the world? Affordable...Affordable energy capital of the world? Affordable? We give the stuff away for next to nothing, or indeed for nothing as corpoarate susidies, taxes, and royalty revenues are a joke. And who approved that?<br /><br />The fairly new "major gas-fired (huge jet turbine) power station near Brisbane" is on the edge of Ipswich and is fed by pipeline from the Darling Downs a coupe hundred kilometers away. It is a beauty, clean, one of the biggest and best in the world and, according to the American manufacturer, had an operating record better than any. Can Do Newman's government mothballed it and reopened a large out-dated, inefficient, and filthy coal fired powerstation in central Queensland to cover the power generating deficit. Palashay now is no better.<br /><br />Indeed it was was mothballed due to the high price then expected for exported gas on completion of the construction of the huge Gladstone gas exporting port. The government QUANGO decided to leave the gas in the ground until it could be exported (now) for a pittance in revenue, but at large profit to multi-national corporates.. Japanese buyers of Australian gas would like to re-export it back to Australia. If their contracts allowed it they could do so, make excellent profits, and still undercut the ridiculous Australian gas price by more than half at least!<br /><br />Australia is not the affordable energy capital of the world. That would imply the energy would have to be purchased from the supplier and not simply given away, but Australia is the cheapest of jokes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com