You must now pay to be scared

You must now pay to be scared | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Reality check time. For several years the states have set their own renewable energy targets and spent hundreds of millions to boost wind and solar energy use. Despite all this, renewable energy makes up just 7.6 per cent of Australia’s power generation.

Sound a good basis to move to 20 per cent? Actually, hydro power alone produces 6.4 per cent - and do you think it’s remotely likely that Rudd will build more dams? No, moving to 20 per cent renewable energy will mean vastly increasing power from solar, wind, bio-mass and geo-thermal - a sector so tiny, expensive and unpromising that it produces just 1.2 per cent of our power. What chance do you think that it can be cranked up to produce 10 times that much in just 12 years?

Rudd’s promise is so utterly unlikely to be made good that it is little better than a lie. Which you must pay for.