Barnaby on ABC PM yesterday:
One of the most basic necessities of life, the greatest reflection of our standard of living, is the price of power.
I remember that a very salient time for me was having a discussion with my mother-in-law, and talking about the carbon price, and her quietly sitting back and in sort of a disdainful way, which I think reflects the disgust held by so many in the community.
She said look, you know, in winter, in the New England, when she’s working on Meals and Wheels, it’s at times it’s very easy to find out where the pensioner is, because you will find them in bed because that is the only place they can afford to stay warm.
So they’re not there because they’re sick, they’re there because they’re cold, and I find that disgusting that would be happening in my nation now. We’re the nation that supplies coal to the world, yet we can’t afford to look after our own.
Another reflection on that is the people of South Korea manage to deliver power to their people, at 30 per cent cheaper than what we can deliver it to ours, yet they’re doing it with our coal after a journey of, I suppose, around about 10,000 kilometres.
So. We merrily sell our coal to the world, for them to use in their coal-fired power stations. But we introduce a big new tax on our own coal-fired power stations. So that our already-overpriced electricity, will become even more overpriced … by (minority) government decree.
(Oh yes, and we refuse to consider nuclear. The only viable, base-load power alternative to coal. But, we merrily keep selling our uranium to the world, for their nuclear power stations).
#@^&%$!?!
Barnaby Is Right 
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