> The cost of coal and gas to the Australian market could effectively be covered by royalties collected from exporters of same.
Or you could do the same with Solar and have more money left over. Having a subsidy rarely works out well, but subsidizing an inefficient system is making two different mistakes.
Australia could be a manufacturing powerhouse off the back of very steeply subsidised energy. China does it.
But instead we seem to be bent on whatever the fuck this is supped to be?
Energy so expensive ya can’t use it.