That is the theory that the Labor Party are working on, that the "greenest" or "lowest carbon" is the best alternative. The concept that people will gravitate to the least taxed alternative is unsound because there is little so little low-carbon electricity about here that choice is choked.

We have no nuclear, some hydro and wind (feeding into the southern grid, not ours) and coal and natural gas turbines. There was a rush on rooftop solar panels, but the Feds pulled the subsidy.

In the Northern Territory, we have only gas turbine and a very few rooftop photovoltaics. We have no choice of supplier, but we'll be hit anyway.

It'll be interesting to see what the effects are down south, but with carbon price passed on through manufacturers to the ultimate consumer everywhere, it's cracking a walnut with a pile-driver.

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