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\"abbott\"<\/a>

Spreading blatant mistruths.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are three schools of thought to explain the Abbott lies on renewable energy. One is that our PM is under the influence of the fossil fuel energy companies and is happy to repeat their propaganda; two is that is he has been ill-advised by dodgy minders and three (to put it politely) he may have temporarily taken leave of his senses.<\/p>\n

How else can you explain Mr Abbott\u2019s statement this week that the Renewable Energy Target was responsible for energy price rises? The Prime Minister said the RET was making Australia \u201c the unaffordable energy capital of the world” and was somehow “…very significantly driving up power prices”.<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

This in the face of indisputable evidence from a number of independent studies including the government\u2019s own commissioned climate modellers (ACIL Allen) which showed clearly that the long term trend would be a fall in electricity prices for consumers.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s recap. In the wake of the government\u2019s review of the Renewable Energy Target (RET), the big energy companies have been spinning the bull \u2026 er running the line \u2026 that it is clean energy and the carbon tax that has been causing the electricity price hikes.<\/p>\n

This in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Indeed the real reason for the massive price gouges has been the wanton expenditure on power infrastructure such as power poles and wires.<\/p>\n

According to Richard Denniss, executive director of The Australia Institute<\/a>, \u201c…the main reason that electricity has been getting dearer is the overinvestment in poles and wires, and the fundamental inefficiency in the way that the national electricity market’s working,\u201d. Mr Denniss was interviewed as part of the Background Briefing program \u201cThe Price of Power\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the program, Treasury has estimated 51 percent of \u00a0the average household bill is spent on these network costs.<\/p>\n

However, the spinners over at FossilFuelCentral have repeatedly used renewable energy as a scapegoat for their price hikes. Of course these fabrications are repeated ad nauseam by supporters such as Abbott, as was witnessed this week.<\/p>\n

However as other recent developments have shown<\/a>, the potentially massive financial and environmental benefits of clean energy is appreciated by a majority of Australians. Those politicians who know which side of their bread is buttered in this debate (quick nod to the populist Clive Palmer and his brood of PUPs), have started to flex their political muscle.<\/p>\n

The Renewable Energy Target has become the new battleground of Australian politics with fossil fuel energy companies and their supporters on one side and the Australian people on the other. Up for grabs is more than a financial stake in how Australia\u2019s energy future is to be played out. It\u2019s our future quality of life, our environment, even our very existence as a species.<\/p>\n

The issue is of paramount importance as the new composition of the senate in Australia, with independents now holding the balance of power. Will these independents see sense and reflect public opinion on this issue? Or will they fall to the Abbott lies on renewable energy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are three schools of thought to explain the Abbott lies on renewable energy. 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