David Leyonhjelm

Yeah and Amen. The very poor who cannot afford solar panels are subsidising those who can afford them. Where is the justice in that.

David

David you have to stop doing this. No politician is supposed to talk so much sense so often. It really isn't right, you'll be giving our con men heart palpitations.

You are sounding just like the Abbott we thought we were electing.

Keep it up, if you can. The media will of course target you, they are all too close to the activists that supply them much copy. However I am getting a message that you can handle any attacks from the powder puffs of the media, & god don't we need some who can.

I look forward to your next topic.

Well said David, you are like a breath of fresh air.

Notice how its the socialists who are foremost in grinding the faces of the poor?

I a real pensioner, scrimped and saved for years to put solar panels on my roof, only to find, the very modest 8 cents feed in tariff is just not being honored, nor the credits earned while it still was. I am being thanked however, like all those other mugs out there in mugsville, for paying my bill on time! [A begging bowl would at least be more honest!]
Even so, it has saved me from being presented with a patently price gouged electricity bill, which was still massively cheaper, when we had a carbon tax and feed in tariffs of 44 cents! No ifs, buts or maybes!
I will scrimp and save some more to buy batteries, and just go completely independent, and then challenge the power authorities to try and make me pay a penny toward their price gouged profits!
And we who own still connected solar arrays, could reap a revenge just by turning off all our isolaters for an few minutes every midday, just as the high peak hits the generators capacity, which would likely overload and drop out.
And just keep doing it until the responsible government is given its marching orders, or goes back to honoring the contractual feed in tariff arrangements, set by several previous governments!
And I urge all who can invest in solar panels, or form small co-ops, who as direct importers, can!
That said, we should abandon these hugely expensive part time wind solar options; and use that pool of money to invest in vastly cheaper 24/7 options!
And given we roll these out as our first preference. We finally put the price gougers out of business, as well as very effectively saving/rescuing the economy.
And those quite massively cheaper options, include cheaper than coal thorium, micro grids, and biogas.
Most families create enough waste to not only power their homes, but if a ceramic fuel cell is included, create a sizable salable surplus!
And given that is so, David is simply not trying to save the economy; but his powerful electricity generating friends?
Or have I missed something?
Rhrosty.

Ah David L, your philosophy is just terrible!

Of COURSE we need to be working towards a renewable energy regime.

Just exactly how we do that, with the most even distribution of costs... or perhaps more to the point; a skewed distribution of costs away from the poor and towards the rich, is open to debate. THIS has surely got be the challenge for government, NOT the absurd pulling right back from renewables and hunkering right down in our addiction to fossil fuels, as the Abbott government is doing.

We need an RET. Absolutely we do. What we actually need is one far stronger than what have had, as to date it has been little more than a token effort, which has effectively just allowed fossil-fuel-powered business as usual to continue virtually unimpeded.

Ludwig, can you understand that the attempt to promote renewables actually uses more natural resources rather than less, and redistributes income from the poor to the rich? Can you understand that this invalidates what you are saying, and it's actually your philosophy that's terrible?