A report on electricity prices released today by the Australian Energy Regulator confirms that electricity bills were lower when the Greens\/Labor carbon price was in effect than they are\u00a0now under the Liberals, said Greens energy spokesperson, Adam Bandt.
\n\u201cElectricity bills were lower under the Greens\/Labor carbon price than they are now under the Liberals, and back then we were also cutting climate pollution,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cThe regulator has belled the cat.
\n\u201cIt takes a particular kind of genius to deliver both higher pollution and higher electricity bills, but the Liberals have managed to stuff everything up.
\n\u201cTo cut both pollution and power bills, we should bring back the carbon price and build more renewable energy.\u201d
\nThe September 2019 \u2018Affordability in retail energy markets\u2019, released today by the Australian Energy Regulator, contains the following Figure 1 on page 6, with the data supporting the report revealing the electricity price index has risen by 2.6% since the carbon price was at its peak in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A report on electricity prices released today by the Australian Energy Regulator confirms that electricity bills were lower when the Greens\/Labor carbon price was in effect than they are\u00a0now under the Liberals, said Greens energy spokesperson, Adam Bandt. \u201cElectricity bills were lower under the Greens\/Labor carbon price than they are now under the Liberals, and … Continue reading “Regulator says electricity bills higher under Libs than Greens\/Labor carbon price: Bandt”<\/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-3619","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\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}