Thanks, ttbn.

Encouraging fellow tribe members to stay the course with such a precisely-timed and relevantly-worded post is more vindication than I could ever ask for.

But rest assured... If ever you find only one person left standing beside you in what is an increasingly fringe belief, it'll be Indyvidual.

Toyoda argues that a single EV is as dirty as three hybrids.
The above is from Akio Toyota of Toyota albeit on Facebook;
John Daysh,
I'm not against progress if it is actual progress. What you're pushing is more focussed on procuring funding to boost the Superannuation accounts of professional guessers i.e. scientists & researchers who never come up with any solutions. What you're in actual doing is to withold vital funding from those real scientists & researchers who actually come up with solutions.
How long should we tolerate to throw good money at such people ? How many of your scientists have actually produced results ? One in a thousand, one in a hundred ? What is an average "scientist's" salary ? By all means reward them with royalties after they find something, not for decades before ! Focus on solutions not utterly unwarranted justification !

We have all heard Albanese gabbling about “Future Made In Australia Policy”, but what does it mean?

It “Mandates extensive government (taxpayer) subsidisation for the renewable sector to compensate for the reduced role of critical industries in the economy which are set to be diminished under net zero policies”.

When we hear Albanese whining about Trump's Tariffs, we need to be aware that the most “harmful imposts” on Australian exporters are not tariffs, but the “self-inflicted” Net Zero.

The pursuit of Net Zero and renewables is estimated to risk up to 650,000 existing jobs, and cancel up to 478,000 future jobs.

Australia could withdraw from the Net Zero nonsense without any legal consequences.

The Albanese government has committed $22.7 billion of taxpayer money over the next decade to Future Made In Australia on what would otherwise be uneconomical unviable manufacturing projects in the hope of encouraging subsidiary private funding.

So much for the free enterprise, capitalist society that has always worked. We are to be dudded by politicians with a long history of failing to pick winners.

$22.7 billion of taxpayer money
ttbn,
Would be interesting to find out how much of that is designated to remain in Australia !

The pursuit of wind and solar by Australia is ridiculous, John. 15 years for 30% of electricity generation vs 150% in 15 years for nuclear by France starting half a century ago. With nuclear the build gets faster and cheaper the further you go: With the wind and solar con the build gets more expensive and complex the further you go. New projects are drying up at a time when they should be accelerating. Capital costs are blowing out, such as the 400% transmission line cost estimate blowout in Victoria (now $20 billion).

But the biggest issue is that 60% of the world is ignoring net zero, and the economic damage inflicted upon nations pursuing the wind and solar con is doing nothing to entice more suckers. Surely if the world was facing an existential crisis there would be a multinational collaboration to develop supply chains and pump out nuclear reactors by the thousand? The French showed that nuclear worked and could be built in a short time frame. All nations like Australia are demonstrating is that wind and solar are far more expensive than nuclear and have build times at least five times as long for the easiest part (i.e. the first 30%).

Indyvidual

As most of the carpetbaggers are foreign, not very much of the money would stay here. Albanese's made in Australia rhetoric is really 'made in China'.