{"id":364463,"date":"2025-02-04T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364463"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:56:40","slug":"bang-food-industry-says-theres-a-national-energy-emergency-and-calls-for-labor-to-drop-the-ideology-and-fast-track-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364463","title":{"rendered":"Bang! Food industry says there\u2019s a national energy emergency and calls for Labor to drop the ideology, and fast-track coal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Finally, the rebellion begins in the business sector<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After years of silence, the first large industry body has broken the Climate Stupid Spell and said the obvious. There is a \u201cnational energy emergency\u201d pushing up the price of food, and the cause of high energy prices is Labor\u2019s 82% renewables target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0Independent Food Distributors Australia<\/a>\u00a0(IDFA) which supplies food to 60,000 shops and markets in Australia has broken with other large industry bodies and said the government should drop the \u201cideological\u201d renewables target and upgrade our coal power plants and install new gas plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, only school girls were allowed to dictate national energy policy, now adults in business can too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The food industry lives and breathes on fossil fuels for their fridges, freezers and trucks, and electricity costs have got up 50% since Labor came into office. So, two weeks after King Trump takes office, and with only weeks or months until our own election, finally they brave up enough to say the Renewables Emperor has no clothes. Give Richard Forbes (the CEO) a medal \u2014 he is blistering and blunt. He didn\u2019t just ask the Labor Party to slow the rush, but to \u201cdrop it\u201d because of the \u201cdamage being done\u201d. He said the Labor Party must take responsibility for the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling climate change targets ideological<\/em> is a blasphemy like burning the climate bible. There\u2019s no pandering in that word. Forbes could have said the Labor Party target is too ambitious, or unrealistic.  But instead he used the word ideological<\/em> \u2014 thus declaring the net zero push it\u2019s irrational, and driven by religious zeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The managing director of Godden Food Group went even further, calling on the Opposition leader in Australia to \u201cjoin Donald Trump in leaving the Paris Agreement\u201d. Some of his four year electricity contracts have been renewed in NSW at 238% higher cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is dynamite in an election year:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food firms revolt over Labor\u2019s energy plan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Greg Brown, The Australian<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers supplying food to major supermarkets and thousands of cafes, restaurants and pubs have launched a revolt against Anthony Albanese\u2019s \u00adenergy policies, urging Labor to dump its 82 per cent renewables target and focus on ramping up more gas and coal production to bring electricity prices down in the short term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business owners in the sector have told The Australian they want the government to drop its \u201cideological\u201d approach to energy and instead support upgrades of existing coal-fired power stations while bringing on new gas peaking plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers also want the \u00adgovernment to fast track the \u00adapprovals of new coal mines and gas fields to lower the price of \u00adbaseload power, disagreeing with \u00adEnergy Minister Chris Bowen\u2019s claim that new renewables \u00adprojects are the answer to lower prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IFDA chief executive Richard Forbes said there was a \u201cnational energy emergency\u201d, arguing the government\u2019s policies were driving up the price of food for consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFood businesses are sick and tired of hearing the government saying they are doing something about the cost of living, when their costs, particularly energy costs, are soaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government must take responsibility for a portion of the cost-of-living crisis, which is the cost of doing business, which is energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reply, the Minister Chris \u201cBlackout\u201d Bowen sticks with the ideological fairy tale, blaming failing coal plants for high prices:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rejecting the push from food distributors, a spokesman for Mr Bowen said experts had found that \u201cunreliable coal generators are driving price spikes\u201d. \u201cExtending them further would be a recipe for disaster,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 He speaks as though aiming for \u201cno coal plants\u201dwill fix a problem caused by a lack of coal plants.<\/em> The argument is so self-evidently stupid, as long as it is played out in public to its obvious end, the Labor Party will be fried on screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the dead-end electricity hole the innumerate dullard left have galloped into.  They think that magically generating a $650 electricity rebate is the same thing as generating electricity. One method makes us stronger and richer while the other just steals tax or purchasing power from average Australians to hide the real cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Labor tools of oligarchs, renewable investors and foreign powers couldn\u2019t see past the name-calling and word-games and fell for every kindergarten trick in the Book of Woke. If the conservatives (which fell for most of the same tricks) can get their acts together and copy Trump, there could be bloodbath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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