Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today slammed the government\u2019s latest attempt at an energy plan, saying the price \u2018safety net\u2019 was a con and the coal slush-fund an irresponsible use of public money that will make global warming worse.
\n\u201cThis price \u2018safety net\u2019 move is an absolute con,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cWhen you read the fine print, the so-called \u2018cap\u2019 won\u2019t apply to 80-90% of customers.
\n\u201cAnd the CEO of Energy Australia has even threatened to put up the prices of the 80-90% of customers to make up for their lost profits if the government forces the power bills of 10-20% of customers down.
\n\u201cThe government\u2019s so-called safety net has holes so big that most people will fall through them.
\n\u201cThe government\u2019s energy plan is also to pay polluters to keep on polluting through a coal-slush fund.
\n\u201cWhile the Greens want to make the polluters pay, the Liberals want to pay the polluters to keep on polluting.
\n\u201cThe government\u2019s latest appalling move is to strip money from schools and hospitals and give it to coal-fired power stations.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s like taking money from the health budget and giving it to an asbestos business.
\n\u201cScientists are telling us to shut down one coal-fired power station per year between now and 2030 but instead the Liberals want to build more.
\n\u201cIf the government takes public money and gives it to coal, they\u2019re toast. They won\u2019t survive the next election and I\u2019ll be glad to see the back of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today slammed the government\u2019s latest attempt at an energy plan, saying the price \u2018safety net\u2019 was a con and the coal slush-fund an irresponsible use of public money that will make global warming worse. \u201cThis price \u2018safety net\u2019 move is an absolute con,\u201d said Mr Bandt. … Continue reading “Adam Bandt Says the Government\u2019s plan to bring down Energy prices is a con”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}