The New South Wales Liberal government of Gladys Berejiklian has embarked upon the most reckless and unprecedented assault upon the future economic viability of (arguably) Australia’s most important state. In order to ‘sell’ his ultra-Green fantasy to naive and gullible supporters of the Liberal party, the NSW ‘Energy’ Minister (the inverted commas deserve to become a permanent fixture of his title) has promised that his renewables revolution will ‘lead to 9,000 jobs and 23,000 indirect jobs’.