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Budget 2017: energy policy’s gushing wounds won’t be fixed with a mop and bucket

12 May 2017

11:48 AM

12 May 2017

11:48 AM

If you had a wound that was gushing blood onto the floor and your doctor prescribed a mop and bucket, you’d ask where he got his practicing certificate and why he wasn’t fixing the actual problem.

Yet this approach is exactly how most western governments are tackling the question of skyrocketing electricity bills.

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