Australia’s most industry-captured think tank, The Grattan Institute, must be laughing into its corporate sponsorship beard over this:
The Allan government will be hit with an angry campaign by gas advocates and plumbers who will target up to 50,000 voters a week amid plans to rid gas from Victorian homes.
Gas advocates say the campaign, to start on Monday, will combat “misinformation” being peddled by the government. Earlier this month, the Allan government introduced legislation to parliament that would grant it the power to ban new gas connections or the installation or replacement of gas appliances.
But the government said it could not do that without first undertaking consultation with industry through a regulatory impact statement.
Bravo Grattan’s former gas cartel executive, and still gas cartel sponsored, Tony Wood, who started this ludicrous distraction.
It takes real talent to single-handedly destroy the energy transformation by preventing regulation of the gas cartel and then manipulating everyone into a policy cul-de-sac to prevent reprise.
While the populist press fumes over expensive gas cooktops that produce almost no carbon, the gas cartel firehoses carbon into the sky for free.
Or, maybe Tony Wood is not that clever.
Maybe we are that stupid.
