C NEWS: The Carbon Tax is destroying Qantas and Australian industries

"The best assistance the Government and the Opposition can provide is the removal of the Carbon Tax which has cost this industry (airlines) hundreds of millions of dollars." says Virgin Australia's CEO John Borghetti.

That's Virgin Australia's boss talking about the destructive effect of the Carbon Tax on businesses. Qantas's half yearly loss of $235 million is about half due to the Carbon Tax.

Yet we have some foolish CEOs like BHP's Andrew MacKenzie and Chairman Jac Nasser, supporting the global pricing of carbon!!! As a former geologist MacKenzie should know better but being a Scotsman there is probably no hope for him. This has put me off owning BHP shares until there is a change of management and common sense at board level prevails. Also it does no help matters having Christine Lagarde, MD of the IMF, promoting the climate change hoax but then she is an economist with little understanding of geology. She is forgiven.

Australia, like our icon airline Qantas, will continue to go down hill economically until the Carbon Tax has been eliminated, together with all the Renewable Energy Target (RET)legislation which like a spider web entangles all our businesses unnecessarily. When this is done we can look forward to a prosperous future.

Where to South Australia? We have to wait for the Fed's New Energy Policy

South Australia has its State Election next month, on the 15th March. We have had 12 years of Labor Government mismanagement with Premiers Mike Rann and now Jay Weatherill. Its high time we had a Liberal Government and so followed new policies to achieve a more prosperous future for all, and not just trade unionists.

Little has been said in electioneering about how this new prosperity can be delivered. We are still reeling from the announcement that General Motors Holden will be gone by 2017 and there will be no more car manufacturing in the State. Earlier BHP decided not to expand the uranium mine at Roxby Downs, to make it the world's largest, due to low metal prices and their predicted future world financial situation. There are now more businesses closing down and shedding workers than there are, if any, starting up. So it's batten down the hatches and hope for the best.

There is little a new Liberal Government can do about the energy situation (except STOP any more wind farms) Our domestic electricity price (31 cents/kWhr) is more that double that of the USA and Canada and exceeded only by Germany and Denmark. This is a ridiculous situation and represents more than a 100% price increase in a decade, mainly due to former Premier Mike Rann's promotion of South Australia as leading the way with renewable energy (wind and solar), thereby preventing the world from cataclysmic global warming. The State Government and councils are still lumbered with this eco-religious nonsense which is not even mentioned in the lead up to the state election. The Liberal pollies are too scared to do so and possibly loose votes, and the Labor pollies wont mention it because they don't realize how stupid they have been to swallow all the warmist bunkum.

In July when Australia gets the new Federal Senate, which is more favorable to the Coalition, it should be possible to rescind Labor's Carbon Tax bill and so remove one lot of chains that are holding back development and investment in industry, agriculture and tourism. Next the Renewable Energy Target (RET) legislation will have to go (now under review) since it is based on the bunkum that atmospheric CO2 is a pollutant, which it definitely is NOT. So by the end of this year 2014, the economy will be moving ahead in the right direction and the new Liberal Government of South Australia with Steven Marshall as Premier, will be able enact new policies, including a new Energy Policy, that will see sensible development of our coal, gas and uranium resources, and the down grading of useless wind farms and pie-in-the-sky large solar and geothermal plants. A NEW DIRECTION TO PROSPERITY IS NEEDED.

More heat wave conditions in Adelaide, South Australia

It's nice having fine cloudless days with blue sky but I wish it wasn't so hot. Yesterday, Thursday, reached 37 C degrees and the Met predicts daily maxima of 40, 42 and 43 degrees which takes us to Saturday, then there is a cool snap of 35 C on Monday coming. Incoming airplane passengers to Adelaide are given special notices on how to cope with the heat, which is sensible.

What is kept under wraps is the uselessness of wind farms to produce electricity during a heat wave, since calm conditions prevail just when we need that extra boost of electricity to meet an abnormal continuous peak demand. The powers that be keep VERY QUIET about their stupid decisions to promote wind farms which are just a SCAM. Also the turbines are a fire hazard and are prone to bursting into flames during these periods of intense heat. In Europe and North America wind farms are useless in times of intense cold when covered in snow and ice. This is why our electricity bills are so high. Let's get rid of wind farms altogether!

Hot again today in South Australia ... that's our typical climate.

Australia Day at Adelaide, South Australia, by the beach at Brighton/Hove (like the UK) at 5pm outdoors it's 35 C (max predicted 38 C), humidity 10 %, clear blue sky and calm conditions. Inside my flat it's has been 25 to now 29 C (no air conditioning). Just reporting in.

Once again the calm conditions means only a dribble of electricity from the many wind farms (26+) in South Australia to (not) cope with the long peak demand for electricity driving air conditioners (ca 75% of houses). However, there is more than a dribble of Government cash flow to wind farm owners and renters of land upon which they are constructed, irrespective of whether the little power generated comes or not when you most want it.

This sorry predicament and scam we can blame on the past Labor Government, in particular ex-Premier Mike Rann who was a Greenpeace member and enthusiast of wind and solar power. Because of this our domestic power price is a very high 31 cents per kWhr when it could be half that if the State had relied only coal and gas fueled power plants.

It's not too late change track and get rid of the wind farms. This March 15th State Election is the opportunity for the Liberals (Oz) to toss out the present Labor Government of Jay Weatherall and to implement a NEW ENERGY POLICY designed to give us cheaper electricity domestically and for industry. Happy New Year from Allano.

Heat Wave Conditions Show Uselessness of Wind Farms

This week the southern part of Australia is subject to an intense heat wave with 5 consecutive days predicted to be 40 C starting yesterday (Monday). Temperature in Adelaide yesterday reached 42 C and is predicted to be the same today Tuesday, with Melbourne at 43 degrees, and with night minimums around 25 to 29 C. Wow!

These high temperatures create a continuous high peak demand for electricity to run air conditioners so that people can keep cool night and day, BUT poke your nose outdoors and you will find CALM conditions. Not a breath of wind to drive the wind turbines, which are quite useless under heat wave conditions.

The conclusion is that wind farms exist purely for the benefit of the wind farm owners and land renters while the proletariat and industry have to put up with an exorbitant electricity price of 31 cents per kWhr. The Coalition has on election day, 15th of March, the opportunity to win the South Australian State election and DO SOMETHING about stopping the promotion of wind farms = wind SCAMS.

South Australia 15th March 2014 State Election is the opportunity to change direction and achieve a prosperous future

SA must have plans to achieve LOWER prices for electricity, water, gas and hydrocarbon fuels if it is to have a viable and prosperous future. Are the SA Liberals capable of doing this? (Oz Liberals not US). I am not sure, which is why I write this blog to nudge them in the right direction.

For a decade or more the State has suffered from the application of the renewable energy nonsense of former Premier Mike Rann. South Australia unfortunately is now leading the country in renewable energy (wind and solar), also promoted by the Greens, which is why the State, like Tasmania, is economically stuffed and cost of electricity is so high (31 cents per kWhr in Adelaide). This political direction of demonizing carbon and imposing legislation limiting "greenhouse gas emissions" promoted by Labor and Greens must STOP and be replaced by a scientifically sensible ENERGY POLICY, devised without Green bunkum. (Ditto water policies)

The Federal change of repealing the Carbon Tax and Mining Tax later this year will be a welcome great step forwards. State wise it is essential to STOP giving permits for construction of wind farms which are just a SCAM. Liberals take notice: NO MORE WIND FARMS PERIOD. Also, subsidies to existing wind farms must be phased out over 5 years and plans made for their demolition, removal, and landscape restored to its former attractiveness.

Plans for subsidizing any large scale solar plants (eg Port Pirie) should be scrapped as being expensive and un-necessary. Existing coal-fired plants can be expanded and modernized with expansion and development of the States coal resources. The possibility of importing coal from the Eastern States needs to be studied. This is just the beginning ... watch this space. Cheers Allano

Nature takes no notice of the "ship of fools" trapped in the sea ice of Antarctica

A week has gone by and the ship of fools carrying warmist scientists and their followers are still trapped in the sea ice of Antarctica. The 1.5 million dollar expedition was to commemorate the "Spirit of Mawson" the Australian explorer to the region 100 years ago. The scientific data gathered was to compare the changes over 100 years and show how the ice of Antarctica is melting away due to global warming!

The sad thing is their ship is trapped in the sea ice and the weather is so bad that attempts at rescue have failed. I predict that eventually they will all be rescued by helicopter and the ship be abandoned, to eventually sink, as did happen with a similar cruise in 2007, with MV Explorar to commemorate the "Spirit of Shackleton".

The moral to the story is it is best to give Professors of Climate Change (Leader of expedition) a wide berth and believe the opposite of what they say, which on average will be nearer the truth of the matter.

In Australia we have many academics of warmist belief who have advised mainly Labor Governments with dud predictions on climate change which have cost us billions in unnecessary expenses, of un-need desalination plants instead of more dams, of countless useless wind farms instead of further developing our extensive coal resources to fuel power stations.

Yesterday's Australian newspaper records that Prof Tim Flannery, a notoriously dud climate change campaigner, says "the Coalition Government is not serious about taking action on climate change and the need to take steps to reduce carbon pollution." He is quite right of course. Also he uses the crap jargon of the warmist and is the cause of State and Federal Governments wasting billions of tax payer's money on dud infrastructure.

Happy New Year to all from Allano