Maybe a few more LNP MP’s could follow Carswell’s lead and
acknowledge that in addition to the scrapping of the Carbon Tax, the useless RET
also needs to go.

My biggest regret as an MP is that I
failed to oppose the 2008 Climate Change Act. It was a mistake. I am
sorry.
On the very day the Labour government passed this fatuous
attempt to "stop global warming", it was, if I remember rightly,
snowing. Had I opposed the Bill, it wouldn't have made much difference, but I
feel I should have known better.
Unlike much of the gesture legislation that goes through
Parliament, this law has turned out to have real consequences. The Climate Change Act has pushed up energy
prices, squeezing households and making economic recovery ever more elusive.
The aim of the Climate Change Act was to create a low carbon
economy. I fear the Act will do that, but perhaps not the way intended. The
Climate Change Act is giving us a low carbon economy the way that
pre-industrial Britain had a low carbon economy.
Cutting carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2020 – as the Act
requires – means, in effect, making energy costs so high that some will have to
go without. How is that progress?
The Act's carbon price floors push up prices. Instead of
energy producers competing to supply households and businesses with a product
at a price they are willing to pay, the legislation introduces a system of
price fixing. Suppliers switch to so called "renewable" energy
sources, and the end user pays.
An unaccountable quango – the Committee on Climate Change –
gets to determine energy policy much the way that central bankers now run
monetary policy. The precedent is not a good one. Adair Turner, head honcho at
the Financial Service Authority, was its chairman.
The tragedy is that it does not have to be this way.
Technological innovation is discovering new ways of obtaining vast reserves of
fossil fuel. As our understanding grows, the idea that human activity alone
causes climate change seems less certain than it once did. Wind turbines, it
turns out, are renewable in the sense that they need replacing every 25 years –
or
perhaps even every 15.
Too often, public policy in Whitehall is shaped by residual
ideas and assumptions – which turn out to be wrong. Nowhere is this more so
than when it comes to energy policy. It is time for a fundamental rethink about
energy policy – starting with an acknowledgment that 2008 Act has got it wrong.
Douglas Carswell - 25 February 2013
Retiring Liberal MP, Alby Schultz, has at least has had
the courage to call out the wind
turbine scam.
Pity Liberal MP Greg
Hunt doesn’t get it.Its obvious Labor will never ‘get it.’

We need an ICAC like investigation into all the corruption in
the wind turbine industry.
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