Politicians don't feel the pressure of rising power bills

It is all very well for government members to say that we neither need nor want coal-fired power stations to generate electricity.

Steam rises from a coal-fired power plant. Picture: SASCHA STEINBACH

IT IS all very well for government members to say that we neither need nor want coal-fired power stations to generate electricity.

They have a constant income, enabling them to not even notice the electricity bill they get.

So, that's very different to the vast majority of the rest of us, whose income level makes them really careful not to spend unless it is essential.

And the electricity bills have hugely increased already over the years, to a level only just affordable today.

The very last thing we need is a cost increase.

It might be true that if we totally convert to wind/solar power, that cost will decrease over the following decades, but how do we continue in the interim? Impossible.

Is it possible for our governments to start doing what the vast majority need and want?

GEOFF CASS

Tewantin

Originally published as Politicians don't feel the pressure of rising power bills