Renewables ‘fairytale’ a con job sending the nation broke

We are now seeing the results of a great con, with the claim that only a transition to intermittent renewable energy will save us.

Far from saving us, we are slowly sending our country bankrupt (“Trapped in transition turmoil”, 1/12). Sadly, our Prime Minister and our belligerent Minister for Climate Change and Energy do not have the courage to admit they are wrong, let alone stop it.

Ross McDonald, Gordon, NSW

Chris Mitchell (“Media asleep as Labor botches energy policy”, 1/12) points to public ignorance of the serious problems with our electricity grid.

In the 1990s, with the nation’s electricity generators still in government ownership, Australians were enjoying some of the world’s sturdiest and cheapest electricity supplies. Then we were told that privatisation would make our electricity even cheaper. This “cheaper” claim turned out to be a con job but far worse was to follow, for now we suffer the claims that replacing our coal-fired generators with renewables would deliver an even cheaper supply of electricity. Chasing this renewables fairytale drains the nation’s treasuries, restricts electricity supplies, threatens the grid’s stability, and is blowing prices sky high. The evidence arrives via every household’s regular electricity bill.

The Coalition, if it had been in power, would by now be addressing Labor’s huge electricity grid failings with nuclear power – the obvious and only way to have a cheap and reliable supply of electricity without emissions.

It looks like Australians will ultimately see a nuclear-powered future as inevitable.

Rob Davies, Drysdale, Vic

How much more evidence is required to demonstrate that the net-zero agenda is crippling our nation?

We have businesses reducing staff hours to keep all their employees working. Companies are shedding staff because power is too expensive. We also have many firms closing their doors.

It looks gloomy because there’s no sign of relief and no sign of help. So with businesses struggling to stay open and employees battling to hold their jobs, the question needs to be asked: “Is the net-zero agenda to implement the renewables experiment on Australia worth it?”

Adrian Devlin, Lake Illawarra, NSW

Do voters see what they have done by falling hook, line and sinker for Anthony Albanese’s money promises and the climate propaganda embedded in spending billions on renewable energy, promoted by Labor, the Greens and teals? And for what?

Hundreds of wind towers and acres of solar farms up and down the east coast, to reduce our 1 per cent contribution to global emissions? And now the economic result is sending the entire nation into stress and eventual poverty. The cost of energy affects every business, every home, every enterprise. Wake up, Australia.

Kevin Begaud, Dee Why, NSW

Your front-page report shows that the Albanese government’s energy policy is a fraud and everyday Australians in small business are its main victims. Doubtless, the government leaders will brush this evidence aside as collateral damage and peripheral to the main game of building a wonderful green world.

They forget that small businesses not only represent the heart and soul of a free-enterprise society, but that investment and hiring decisions made by these people have huge implications on the overall economy, not the least being on the government’s own budget program. Inevitably, the insanity of this government’s energy policy will force many thousands into the ranks of the unemployed. Only in a subsequent recession will Treasurer Jim Chalmers get his desired interest rate cut.

Bob Miller, Leederville, WA

All the stress and anxiety that is being imposed on businesses and families from unaffordable and unreliable energy comes down to the Albanese government placing all bets on renewable energy, a strategy no other nation would dare pursue.

It’s painfully obvious that in all the government’s announcements on renewable energy milestones and targets, there is rarely any mention of possible benefits such as lower prices, better reliability or improved industrial productivity.

Ron Hobba, Camberwell, Vic