If politicians cared to move into the real world and listened, rather than lectured, they would understand the inescapable truth that while there is a cost of living crisis, governments, through appalling policy, are not solving the crisis, but adding to it.

There is an election coming up in New South Wales.

That government is as green as they come. The Member for Manly, James Griffin, said in the presence of his Premier, on March 6, ‘Everybody wants to shut them [coal-fired power stations] down as quickly as possible.’ The Premier was nodding along with him.

And when the Treasurer and Energy Minister Matt Kean had a blinding insight that he might need coal-fired power, telling the media, ‘We are not ruling this in or out…’ Premier Perrottet, once a Liberal with common sense, said, ‘Intervening in Eraring is not part of our plans.’

This, in response to Kean saying that the government could intervene to keep Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station, Eraring, open.

Yet you have a NSW Minister lining up with the policy eunuch, Labor’s Chris Bowen, to say that ‘everybody’ wants to shut down coal-fired power stations as quickly as possible.

We have to understand the massive crisis currently on our hands, inspired by utterly irresponsible policy.

Every increase in energy costs, feeds into the cost of living.

As I write, I am sitting at a desk, there is a television monitor in front of me, there are lights and electrical fittings – all have been transported here.

Without energy, they stay in the storeroom.

You will put food on the table tonight, whether it be meat or vegetables or milk, all brought to the supermarket by trucks, utterly dependent on energy to get to their destination.

The political ‘elite’ want nothing to do with fossil fuels.

Renewables, the sun, and the wind will do the job.

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Bjorn Lomborg is a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

He is the President of the Copenhagen Consensus, which is dedicated to researching and understanding the economics of global warming and other problems facing a growing planet.

He wrote a book that everyone should read, False Alarm: How climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.

Remember, Bowen, Kean, Perrottet, and co want fossil fuels, coal, and gas out of the way in seven years’ time.

Bjorn Lomborg says, ‘The rich world’s fossil fuel hypocrisy is on full display in its response to the global energy crisis, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.’

‘While the rich G7 countries admonish the world’s poor to use only renewables because of climate concerns, Europe and the US are begging Arab nations to expand oil production. Germany is reopening coal-fired power plants; Spain and Italy are ramping up African gas production; many European countries have asked Botswana to mine more coal, such that the country would have to triple its exports.’

Lomborg makes the point, repeatedly, that fossil fuels today provide more than three-quarters of the world’s energy.

Solar and wind deliver less than three percent.

Says Lomborg of renewables, ‘This promised nirvana is a sham consisting of wishful thinking and green marketing.’

Presumably, Bowen and Kean and co, Albanese, Perrottet, whomever, know more than is revealed by the research of Bjorn Lomborg.

Writes Lomborg, ‘In rich countries such as Germany and Spain, most solar and wind would never have been installed if not for subsidies.’

Says Lomborg, ‘Solar and wind are incapable of delivering the power needed for industrialisation, powering water pumps, tractors and machines, all the ingredients needed to lift people out of poverty.’

He also says:

‘As rich countries are now discovering, solar and wind energy remain fundamentally unreliable. No sun or wind means no power. Battery technology offers no answers; globally, there are only enough batteries to power global average electricity consumption for one minute and 15 seconds. Even by 2030, with a projected rapid battery scale-up, they would last less than 12 minutes.’

Bowen and Kean and co are not listening.

Our energy Armageddon is around the corner because, as Lomborg says, this is why the rich world is on track to continue to rely mostly on fossil fuel for decades.

The International Energy Agency estimates that even if all current climate promises are delivered, fossil fuels will still constitute two-thirds of the rich world’s energy by 2050.

Lomborg quotes, alluding to the hypocrisy of all this ban fossil fuel rubbish, the Nigerian Vice-President, who has said, ‘No one in the world has been able to industrialise using renewable energy.’

In particular, because of this fictitious climate change nonsense, denying the developing world the use of fossil fuels, says Lomborg prophetically, and this applies to us, this is where we are heading, ‘Insisting that the world’s poor (but you could simply say the world’s population) – insisting that the world’s poor live without fossil fuels is virtue-signalling that plays with other people’s lives.’

And that is it.

You either believe Lomborg or you believe Bowen and his green mates in the Labor and the Liberal parties.

And if you believe Lomborg, together, we must do something about it.

Voters get a chance in NSW on March 25.

The Liberal government in NSW does not only deserve not to be returned, it has earnt outright rejection.

As one of my correspondents emailed me last week to say, on the Lismore flood issue alone, the NSW Government does not deserve support; and, then, here they are playing with people’s lives with an energy policy that is, I repeat, an economic suicide note.

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