We at pcbycp are delighted that Josh Frydenberg has applauded the Coalitions’ decision to open up the Clean Energy Finance Corp to invest in carbon storage and capture. Opening the brand new ‘Australian Alchemy Institute’ in Canberra today the Energy and Environment Minister beamed; ‘It’s a demonstration of the government’s commitment to a technology neutral, non-ideological approach to national energy policy”.

These people are mis-informed by fake news and fake science.

And he’s dead right, it’s about time COAL had a fair go. We want the Australian Government to go one step further, and make it FREE to foreign buyers. Only then can we achieve sovereign resource security. It attracts overseas investment. Without it we’re stuffed. It’s worked with GAS and now it should apply equally to COAL. And the world will know that Aussies are good sports when it comes to giving it all away to a bunch of corporations who never ever pay tax.

“Removing the prohibition will allow the CEFC to support a wider range of low-emissions technologies and thereby reduce emissions at lowest cost,” Frydenberg said on Tuesday.

A wrong headed-man. The insidious influence of “Fake Science”

‘With the Alchemy Institute we’ll be able to divert taxpayer money away from silly investments into health, research, education and long termism into a couple of very wealthy individuals. And they’ll be able to come and go as they please, and see real scientists, in real white lab-coats, brushing, polishing, and admiring lumps of coal. They’ll be analysing it and thinking really hard about how to turn it into something clean and green. Though the technology hasn’t worked anywhere in the world, we’re keen to make it work. Not by research, not by trial and error, not by any other empirical scientific method, but because we say so.

We at pcbycp heartily agree! Because we CAN!

By saying so, we’ll prove the technology and the rivers of gold diverted from bad investment, (as cited above) is used to make this wonderful building, and these very nice uniforms. And though the world will go 100 percent carbon neutral in the long term we’ll prove that by being Aussies we stick by our mates, and will do whatever they can to get them (a few good blokes and Gina) extremely rich. Remember what the Treasurer said; Bad investment; brainy stuff for wankers who imagine things. Good investment; it’s keeping things exactly the same. There’s an enshrining principle at work here. If it aint broke, don’t fix it. And your mates will look after you.

Last year I got two tickets to the Grand Final and an invite to Gina’s third daughter’s wedding. The year before I got to swim in Mr Adani’s swimming pool. Once this reform to the Clean Energy Finance Bill is passed I may even get to see the boss, Big Vlad. He likes maintaining the status quo and who can blame him. It’s made Russia Great, (again). And if we win the next election, i’ll get to have a Lamington with the most powerful man in the world, Lord Rupert. And he’ll reward me with a job somewhere. Which’ll be 100 percent taxpayer funded.

And besides there’s an over-arching principle at stake.

Close down manufacturing and you get a house like this in the U.S of A. ‘And if you can’t afford it, just get a better paid job’. ( J Hockey)

Joe* got it, so why can’t I’?

*Dear reader we at pcbycp would like to apologise for this gratuitous and il-timed reference to our former tresurer Joe Hockey. Joe single-handedly closed down the car industry and spoke of ‘lifters and leaners’. For his efforts he was given a cushy sinecure in Washington, and will add, (via taxpayer funded largesse) to his paltry, (only five at this stage) portfolio of investment properties. Which are also incidentally funded by the taxpayer. We wish him well in his industry and hard work.