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I was a bit slow getting my comment in yesterday.. so here it is again..
The company Beyond Building Energy had developed a great supply chain and business model around the Government rebate. Their future must now be in doubt.
They approached reasonably wealthy suburbs and got 50 households in a small area to sign-up to solar panel installation, which enabled them to dramatically reduce the costs of delivering materials and installation.
I'm not going to lose any sleep over the Government cutting the tax exemption on condensate for the oil and gas companies, despite their justified annoyance at not being given any warning. But start-up businesses must have confidence that financial support is not going to be removed leaving them high and dry. We've shafted different segments of the renewable energy industry several times in this country already - there's no worse way to hinder developing industries than to keep changing the rules.
Let's have a proper bloody renewable feed-in tariff with some certainty that it's in for the long haul and then see what happens. Seems to be working pretty well in Germany.
More examples of Chairman Rudd trying to out ideologise the bastards he replaced. Keep the markets happy at all costs seems to be the governments priority while patting the masses on the head.
Don't know about anyone else but as a thinking person I'm starting to wonder if my vote was well placed last November?
At the moment the only thing I'm happy about with Rudd is that he is getting out of Iraq.
Everything else seems to be no improvement on Johnny and co (who deserved to be booted out regardless) - they've even mandated internet filtering I think, which is about the worst sin any government could commit under my personal value system.
As I voted for the Greens I don't feel any personal sense of responsibility - a protest vote is the highest moral ground of all.
I'm hoping Malcolm T will sense where the wind is blowing long term and position himself as a blue-green liberal rather than competing with labor for the greenhouse mafia's affections - then I might go back to my old voting patterns...