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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (21961)	6/13/2008 4:58:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 36917

Wharfie, the shortage is because nobody wants to invest in electricity supplies and if they want to, they are not allowed to [by the government - due to Resource Management Act absurd processes, environmental "protection" laws, Maori confiscation etc]. Even is some capitalists did dare to succeed in getting a power station through the vast array of government hoops and kleptocracy, the government would then tell them how much they could charge customers [which would be the same amount as they could get by leaving the money on deposit with a bank]. So we have the absurd spectacle of coal being exported to Australia while New Zealand runs out of electricity. But at least we aren't producing CO2. Perhaps it doesn't occur to Helen Clark and co that China is burning the coal in power stations and they don't bother than environmental stuff. But even with that, there really is enough electricity here. It just needs to be priced intelligently. Despite the imminent "crisis", our price is just the same as befoe, so we just use what we like at that price. If it was $10 a kilowatt-hour, I'd be more circumspect about leaving a heater blasting instead of dressing for warmth. I'd boil water using gas instead of electricity. Being socialist economic, scientific and environmental illiterates, they don't know how to avoid such problems. They will do something like have a government department of 'social scientists" arrange rationing and send police around neighbourhoods arresting those who defy the regulations. No doubt their punishment would include disconnection from the grid. Two or three nuclear reactors around Auckland area would be a good way to provide a lot of electricity. But the dopey government won't allow that. Nor would the population who have anti-nuclear religion. Mqurice