The fairy-tale mythology of “green energy” is easily demolished with some simple, back-of-the-envelope calculations. “Renewable” energy, green fantasies aside, simply is not, cannot be, a viable replacement for fossil fuels. Anyone who argues otherwise is either lying or deluded. Firstly, there is the gross inefficiency of “renewables” – inefficiency that translates
Sir John Redwood MP johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non-executive chairman of
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Earlier this month the Climate Commission released their draft report to the Government. It is so extreme that even typically conservative economists are expressing alarm. Without any exaggeration, if implemented, the Commission’s plan would radically transform New Zealand, from a country which is still
As some of you will know, I am a landlord and have been, on and off, for the last 20 years. Currently, we have 2 rented houses, our tenants are really great and we are happy, but it hasn’t always been that way. There were the tenants who completely
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of
If the Greens and the ALP were to be believed, Australia is just one solar panel away from banishing those nasty fossils fuels for ever. Electricity will come free from the sun, there’ll be no more bushfires and we’ll all hold hands and skip into the glorious green
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While many workers are chilling at home or working reduced hours due to COVID-19 lock-downs many are paying little attention to the huge number of job opportunities that are vanishing every day. A lack of jobs in the future is a scary prospect and bad
ACT Party “The Government’s dismal failure to be flexible and pragmatic about immigration to support the primary sector means hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for apple, wine and other growers is a near certainty,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “That a scheme of financial inducements
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In his self-described state of the nation address to Party members last weekend, ACT leader David Seymour came out with some world-class tosh. Referring to the housing supply crisis, he said, “…you’ve just overseen the greatest transfer of wealth from those who work to
Ok, so I am a tax nerd. I have seen all sorts of taxes come and go during my career, and I can tell you, within reason, what works and what doesn’t. I can tell you with absolute certainty that capital gains tax will not magically fix the housing
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage
Enjoying a few drinks at a Saturday night barbeque with our neighbours, the subject of the Climate Commission’s proposal inevitably came up. These people are originally from Christchurch, generally left leaning (but not rabid lefties), happy with changing all the place names in New Zealand to Maori names and
The leaners sure hate the lifters. Australian rock group This Is Serious Mum once described a proposed tour of a Melbourne “Arts” festival, where busloads of Melbournians from the suburbs would be slowly driven along St. Kilda Boulevard, where hundreds of the city’s most cutting-edge arty types would line
