The government of New South Wales,
a region in Australia,
recently revoked its support of green energy initiatives in the area, and is
currently urging the national government to follow suit. Quoting a seventeen
percent hike in electricity bills, New
South Wales is claiming that green energy just is not
worth the bill their constituency would have to pay.
This logic is of course, fallacious. While green energy may
show an increase on the immediate power bills of those using sustainable
sources, these methods are preempting the much larger hike in prices that will
come when fossil fuels begin to run out. Petroleum based fuels, which have been
coming in to more and more of a threatened quantity, have their price firmly
rooted in their availability. The entire world depends on this source of
non-renewable fuel for everything in their lives, and there is no way to get
more of it.
Instead of working towards an energy solution now, the government
of NSW is going back to relying solely on fossil fuels until the price of green
energy either falls to a reasonable rate, or until the price of petroleum based
fuels rises so high that sustainable energy becomes a viable option by default.
The issue with this is that green energy is not going to appear out of nowhere.
If no one puts money towards the generation of renewable energy, this important
world resource will never become any less expensive.
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