Energy Efficiency

Barnaby Joyce, like Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan, is a huge disappointment to most Queenslanders. All three prove rather than disprove the downside of ‘intellectual’ inbreeding.

By intellectual inbreeding, I mean people who attract like minded ideology and by doing so, isolate themselves from main-stream thought and greater community good; they are then approached and befriended by vested corporate ‘friends’ who agree with them and slowly redirect their ideology to achieve their own ends.

Specifically I refer to Barnaby ‘The Bruce’ Joyce push for nuclear energy; what a classic demonstration of an easily manipulated simple man. To spend more money and use more energy than a nuclear energy plant will ever provide but easily create just as much greenhouse gas emissions even leaving the nuclear waste aside, what nonsense.

Meanwhile, Malcolm Turnbull wants to engage with the Government over the emissions scheme while others in his party don’t and others want to wait until after the December Copenhagen climate conference to ‘see what the rest of the world is doing’; isn’t that a bit like seeing someone being assaulted and waiting to see who will intervene?

Australia was the first country in the world to make seat belts mandatory, but fresh air, clean water and contaminant free soil is a wait and see approach?

Australians want the political spectrum to pull together on environmental issues, not some childish spat normally viewed in Parliament.

The Nationals have a different view from the Liberals yet are supposed to be on the same side in the final analysis; but if you want contradiction, just look at Peter Garrett do a number on the environment every opportunity he gets a chance.

And then ‘The Bruce’ said the Nationals would seek to dismantle any scheme a Coalition government inherited.

Then you have the ratbag element on the nuclear payroll like Dr Jensen, a proponent of nuclear power, who not having been elected by anyone to represent anyone, says he doesn’t believe nuclear power is so difficult any more.

When will mainstream media run a policed survey to get true public sentiment rather than some ‘research polling’ in a set demographics which will produce the results you want and allows for the Rove McManus style of ‘paid for self voting’ manipulation?

Senator Bernardi said: ”You can’t have a debate about future energy requirements without considering nuclear. It may not prove viable. But you should have the debate.”

How many times do you need to debate it … until people give up?

It’s pretty simple really, Americans don’t care about the environment or milking the public purse (see how they pay the banks to stay in business after losing so many people’s money) yet even they wouldn’t pay for nuclear power.

Why? Because nuclear power stations cost more money than they would make, hence the need to suck up billions of $’s of the public’s money.

It’s like ethanol, if the government didn’t subsidise the ethanol industry, there wouldn’t be an ethanol industry.

Meanwhile while our nations politicians seek to out grandstand each other and fail to address greenhouse gas emissions, we are already seeing top temperatures; Brisbane recorded its hottest August on record (35.4 degrees C) and temperatures across the state have been about 10 degrees hotter than average the Bureau of Meteorology says.

The bureau is predicting winds to pick up, adding to the extreme fire danger that has prompted a total fire bans and California is again subject to massive fires as was Greece several weeks ago, but you go for it ‘The Bruce’ Barnaby Joyce, keeping jockeying for the number one position, but remember when you get there, we may well all be burnt out …