Letter of the Week
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ELECTRIC car proponents, led by Bill Shorten, are playing fast and loose with the truth.
We will not and cannot get to 50 per cent electric cars by 2030. We don’t have that much electricity without building new coal or nukes.
After Shorten’s “8 to 10 minutes to charge” gaffe, Lucy Turnbull came out in support.
She pointed to an experimental European 15-minute fast charger. It has liquid-cooled high-voltage charging cables. What could possibly go wrong there?
It consumes 2000 amperes at 220 volts AC. For comparison, a new house has a 32 ampere supply. Each electric car fast-charger will consume the power of 63 new houses. If electric cars were in any way achievable or desirable the free market would be doing it.
Trying to force technological innovation via government edict just doesn’t work. Go to Wikipedia and search “Lysenkoism”.
Forcing electric cars on us is Keynesian (demand-driven) economics – a faulty model.
Nobody had to force us to buy smart phones because the technology matured independently of government.
Voluntary mobile phone purchases are Austrian (supply-driven) economics – a model that works.
Sadly, both branches of the Australian UNiparty subscribe to Keynesian economics, which is why we’re sinking ever deeper into debt and despair.
But that won’t stop our technologically-ignorant, virtue-signalling pollie muppets destroying what our forebears built to advance ridiculous and unworkable populist nonsense to make themselves rich and powerful at all Australians’ expense.
What can you do? Vote to clear them out. Put sitting members last and give the Lab-Grn-Lib UNiparty your last three preferences.
Even slightly honest independents would be better than the thoroughly-deluded lawyer-class we have now. PETER CAMPION, TOLGA
THE lime scooters are banned but the more dangerous electric bikes and mopeds are allowed to continue on their dangerous way – seems fair. ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE
WHEN it comes to providing better health services, Labor’s priorities are all wrong.
There’s no better example than Annastacia Palaszczuk wasting taxpayers’ money renaming the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, rather than providing better care for our sickest kids.
We also have a bush baby crisis, with cuts to regional maternity services. Last week the LNP moved to stop the renaming – in legislation at least – in the Parliament.
The latest code yellow crisis in Southeast Queensland was the latest in a long list of Labor’s health crisis. Queenslanders deserve a world-class public health system no matter where they live.
At the last state election, Annastacia Palaszczuk promised better local health services, but things have gone backwards.
Major public hospitals are at breaking point, with promised hospital upgrades years away from completion. Ambulance ramping is skyrocketing, emergency departments are overcrowded and waiting times are blowing out.
These aren’t just numbers in a spreadsheet – it is your mother, or
sister or close family friend. As a nurse, I understand that our hard working doctors, nurses and midwives need more help on the frontline to improve patient care.
It’s time for Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor to put patient care as their number one priority. ROS BATES, MEMBER FOR MUDGEERABA
WITH the 2019 election only a few weeks away I would really like to see a move towards a government based on the sovereignty of the people instead of party politics.
The consent of the governed, that is the people who elect their representatives, is for a parliament which governs the country with the country’s welfare as the number one objective, instead of a parliament of toe-the-party-line policies.
Instead of our politicians being concerned with getting re-elected to ensure that they can keep sucking on the teat of the public money cow, they should put their constituents, and ultimately the country, first.
The proliferation of minor political parties at every election can directly be traced back to the dissatisfaction of electors with the major parties. Both the ALP and LNP have become less relevant to the people because of the party politics they espouse which has very little, if any, benefit for the people they represent.
The pollies are more intent on solidifying their place in the parliaments where they can keep sticking their snouts in the public money trough and eventually retire on a very lucrative pension. GRAEME (TUBBY) BREWER, BIGGERA WATERS