About government and renewable energy, Federal is so negative on everything, just wrecking for the sake of wrecking. New State government in Victoria is quick to say no plans to close brown coal power stations. Meanwhile there are many examples around the world of Local Government not being compromised by big business politics, helping with CORE(Community Owned Renewable Energy). Our energy costs are already amongst the most expensive in the world. Coal power stations are now old, tired and privatised, big profits going offshore, no possible new investment. Before big electricity remote supply fails, we need to grasp the opportunity to replace with CORE, stable, reliable, clean, jobs and money local, not exported, tax free into tax havens. Even USA military is drastically reducing dependency on grid power.

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