Reading this passage below from Piers Akerman’s column in the Sunday Telegraph about the government throwing money at the Tomago smelter problem.
It’s not the temporary monetary fix by way of temporary subsidies that is required but a total reversal of the renewable dogma and it got me thinking about the “teach a man to fish” aphorism:
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed for a lifetime”.
Tomago doesn’t require the fish/subsidy for a day fix. Tomago requires the reliable, available and affordable energy, 24/7/365 fix.
READ ON —
“…Green energy cannot power industry, 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬.
The PM promised certainty for thousands of secure, well-paid, blue-collar jobs in regional areas such as Tomago, Gladstone, Portland and Bell Bay.
He claimed, falsely, industry could lower its emissions and remain competitive in a global market that, he said, was increasingly demanding “green metals”.
He said we would be value-adding by keeping the entire aluminium supply chain in Australia rather than exporting raw materials for others to process.
Tomago Aluminium workers are now looking down the barrel at the closure of their plant because of the soaring cost of Bowen’s green energy…”