Well people like Sarah Hanson-Young push the greens ever further left

There is no reason why environmentalism needs to be left wing, IMO.

In fact, it seems a logical cause for someone who considers themselves conservative.

Conservatives would be fine with it but the amount of govt subsidies given to renewables makes it not feasible

Alan Jones is on about that stuff all the time

What do you mean?

Also i need to make this clear. I am not in defense of the elites. Just giving out a question. If it sounds like im defending then you dont understand the concept that i for one aint liking the playbook they use

The tech needs a kcikstart before the market can take oevr.

And Oz is the one place where renewables would actually work well.

Or one of the places.

TEXAS HAS MORE WIND ENERGY THAN THE ENTIRE NATION HAS SOLAR YOU GUYD

It has basically everything.

Renewable energy is far more expensive than coal generation right now

Sure. But it won't be once the tech is mature.

Power costs have skyrocketed especially in Vic because of it

yeah but Australia can afford to wait

And that's where state intervention helps.

If the tech ever has enough ppl u mean

Since u knlw education and what not

But state intervention has lead to year on year 200% power price increases

more in victoria

Well that's bad policy.

Renewable energy can play havoc with animal populations though

well the whole wind farms do chop up birds

The original carbon trading scheme wasn't necessarily bad policy.

IIRC hydroelectric also causes problems with fish, especially salmon

Killed a ton of businesses here

Large independent hardware stores were killed by it

Others too but that was a big one in this area

Australia has solar coverage for PV, good potential for solar thermal, wind, waves, some geothermal potential.

It would wind up being much cheaper than coal.

Australia has a ton of space for solar too

But requires some capital.

Largest exporter of Uranium in the world and we dont have nuclear

Yesp, that's dumb.

But the taxpayer has to foot the bill and many cant afford it

for renewables

That's backwards.

people gonna start dying in the heat because they can't afford to turn on the AC

Put kangaroos on hamster wheels hooked to a generator

If the taxpayer foots the bill, it shields individuals from cost increases.