Posted on 03/14/2017 6:00:29 AM PDT by Twotone
Instead of coming clean on policy failures, South Australia, the world’s renewable energy crash test dummy, has announced a decision to ditch free markets and assume direct government control of the electricity grid, in an effort to stabilise their self inflicted renewable energy nightmare.
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Assuming Direct Control Ping.
What could possibly go wrong with that plan? /sarcasm
Socialist playbook.
1. Foist a bad policy on the public, preferable one that created massive wealth for those doing the foisting (Al Gore).
2. Wait for the results of that police to create a crisis.
3. Give government complete control over anything and everything related to the crisis and expect people to believe that the government which created the crisis is somehow the only entity that can fix the crisis.
4. Blame it all on conservatives.
created -> creates.
police -> policy
Together, Comrades, toward the shining Green future! All you have to lose is personal liberty!
Socialism always needs to “fixed” with more socialism.
This is WHY Leftists create artificially induced crises. So that they have an excuse to assume direct control.
Their system creates abundant electricity during the day. At night, not so much, but who needs power at night, or when it is raining, or hot, or cold, or...............?
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken
Reload and target the other foot!
Aussies better prepare for periodic blackouts as renewables like windmills are unreliable and must be backed up with ample fossil fuel plants. Government cannot manage anything.
To be fair, one of the reasons South Australia is taking this approach is because of a recent situation where the Australian Energy Market Organisation ordered it to start rolling blackouts that weren’t by any sensible measure necessary (SA had a gas power station station spun up and ready to meet the anticipated demand and AEMO instead told them to shed load). Under the circumstances, I can understand why South Australia wants direct control back.
That isn’t to say SA’s power grid doesn’t have major problems - it is way too reliant on renewables and wind power to the extent that if the wind system fails, there isn’t enough spare reliable capacity to keep the system running at high loads - but on that occasion, they had everything working, and they had the back up gas plant running and they were told not to use the back up but instead disconnect homes and businesses during a heat wave.
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