Misleading? LEFT BEHIND: 18 million Aussies want it but the PM says no, page-53

I agree wholeheartedly and privately I can, and will, pay whatever is needed but this is not true of industry. If businesses close down sacking people they are going to find it hard to pay for a lot more than just electricity.

Many people bemoan the fact that Australia is a dirty big quarry and that we just export our mine output for others to value add, adding to THEIR employment not ours. How can that change if we close down the few refineries and arc furnaces that we do have because of expensive electricity? The US is having a resurgence of manufacturing in states that have kept their electricity prices down and Germany is struggling partly because of expensive power. If they had a freely floating Mark [not the Euro, dragged low by the crock economies too numerous to name] they would really be in trouble.

Energy is the lifeblood of modern economies and the cheaper that is the better.