In the words of Democrat operative Rahm Emmanuel, โ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐โ.
In other words, see it as an opportunity to do things differently and as an opportunity to do things you thought you couldnโt do before.
Reframe your dilemma through the prism of, out of chaos comes opportunity.
Now that the coalition is a mere husk of the robust political force it once was, they should adopt the policy of, totally cornering and owning the market on energy or at least the only energy market that matters.
Just as Labor owns Medicare they also, at the moment own renewable energy.
And that is their Achilles heel.
The American economist and presidential adviser of the mid-70’s Herb Stein once said in a statement of the obvious: “๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ง’๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง’๐ญ”. .
The underlying principle of this tautological observation is that if a trend, fashion or fad is ๐ข๐ง๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ฅ๐ it will eventually cease, collapse or reverse.
And this is the dilemma that Australia and particularly Labor, will eventually have to deal with because renewable energy subsidies are both economically and more particularly politcally, ๐ข๐ง๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ฅ๐
For the right of centre parties, renewable energy is the point of entry that they should seriously prod, probe, exploit and war-game with a view to eventually putting them out of business.
As energy is the basis of everything in a modern economy (not just electricity) but also in such a large land mass as Australia, road transport, shipping, aviation and agriculture, their entire focus must be in the enrgy space.
The stuff arrives on to the shelves at Woolies on the back of a truck the farmer gets his dairy, wheat and wool to market by road and rail.
Nothing moves without energy and the right of centre must own it.
Labor is in the unenviable position that they own the renewable sector but renewables, as we all know are only sustainable with subsidies and subject to the vagaries of the weather.
It can’t be repeated often enough: ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐งโ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ-๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ.
In fact, with renewables, weโre paying twice. Once with our outrageous electricity bills and again via our taxes with the renewable subsidies.
The conservative forces should quit the โme tooโ net zero scam, walkaway and into the embrace of nuclear. But just as, or even more importantly, hammer the point that everyoneโs electricity bill and everything in general is higher today and even higher tomorrow because of renewable energy and the renewable energy subsidies.
If, as the left continues to gaslight Australians, with the bogus argument that renewables are cheaper than coal, gas and nuclear then they donโt need subsidies.Theyโre cheaper right? Wrong?
The beautiful thing about it is that unlike Labor and their perennial “Mediscare” campaigns conservatives only need to highlight the truth of actual energy costs because theyโre very real and everyone, through their own bitter experience, knows all to well, that they are very real.
Just as Albo at every campaign whistle stop pulls out his Medicare card the opposition leader should personalise it and pull out a previous and current electricity bill for comparison, of random but very real families from across Australia and read them to the gaggle of waiting press.
That would humanise and personalise the issue for all Australians and the conservatives would own energy.