The chasm between business and politics is spectacularly obvious in the plaintive calls from the power industry for bipartisan energy policy. Chief executives are wasting their time. Not only will bipartisanship not happen, Malcolm Turnbull's far bigger problem is getting partisan agreement – from his own party.

Some Liberal MPs are going to fight fiercely against any further subsidies to renewables – making them determined to kill any clean energy target (CET), no matter how much it is modified and what it is called. No prizes for guessing who's going to lead that argument in the party and, if necessary, in public. Tony Abbott gave notice of this in the party room on Tuesday morning.