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 It’s become something of a cheap, throwaway and clichéd description but those that adhere to the fiction and fantasy of renewables being the great panacea for their climate change neurosis have been overtaken by some form of Stockholm Syndrome. The lead weight of their green and renewable ideology out weighs and clouds their ability to think clearly and rationally and in the face of all the empirical evidence, undertake the most basic, on the spot, mental, cost benefit analysis. That is, a basic analysis of pain for gain. The reason is because to do so would expose them to facts contrary to their beliefs and that just cant be allowed.
Their gullibility has resulted in them succumbing to the same mass hysteria and group think that drove 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones to sip the Kool Aid in the mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. Australia accounts for just 1.5 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. And according to the International Energy Agency and the Climate Council of Australia, the national RET resulted in just 0.0004 per cent less emissions a year on average from 2001 to 2014.”
 
Their gullibility has resulted in them succumbing to the same mass hysteria and group think that drove 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones to sip the Kool Aid in the mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.
 
Some of the stats below from the National Energy Market and the International Energy Agency are quite staggering and highlight both the folly and futility of pursuing the renewable wet dream.
 
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“…Recent analysis by the Australian Energy Council shows electricity prices in South Australia during the recent summer were about 260 per cent higher than in the summer of 2014-15. That is an eye-watering 41 times the growth in average wages.
It is no wonder businesses and people are fleeing the state. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, private-sector business investment in South Australia has collapsed by 29 per cent in just three years.
According to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, the annual electricity bill for a South Australian small-to-­medium enterprise is $16,000.
In June last year, a family-run recycling business in Kilburn, in Adelaide’s inner north, announced it would be closing after 38 years, putting 35 people out of work.
The trigger was a spike in its monthly electricity bill from $80,000 to $180,000.
And even South Australia’s world-class wine region isn’t safe. According to the ACCC, a large winery in South Australia faced a 160 per cent annual increase to its electricity costs, seriously jeopardising its export potential.
First, renewable energy is more expensive than coal. If this were not the case, then there would be no need for it to be sub­sidised.
Yet, as analysis on these pages last September showed, the renewables industry is set to receive $60 billion in subsidies by 2030.
Second, renewables are unreliable. According to the Clean Energy Regulator, in 2016-17 coal-fired stations in the National Energy Market operated at 76 per cent capacity, while wind operated at just 32 per cent capacity.
And during January and last month, wind farms in South Australia operated at less than 50 per cent of their registered capacity 89 per cent of the time.
Australia accounts for just 1.5 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
And according to the International Energy Agency and the Climate Council of Australia, the national RET resulted in just 0.0004 per cent less emissions a year on average from 2001 to 2014.”  SA Labor’s Passion For Renewable Energy Is Madness