Alan Moran

Retrieving Australia’s energy policy disaster

29 February 2024 1:50 am

Australian governments are in denial but it’s clear that the great green revolution they planned for energy supply has failed…

The solution to our government-induced malaise

19 February 2024 2:00 am

Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when…

Plucking the income goose

8 February 2024 1:40 am

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…

Will this be the summer of Daniel?

31 January 2024 3:00 am

‘Wholesale electricity prices on the East Coast have halved from 2022 levels, reflecting the increasing role that low-cost renewables are…

Renewables: an expensive nightmare to nowhere

16 January 2024 2:11 pm

Plans for the elimination of coal require increasing regulatory measures and ever-escalating levels of government spending. Federally, the ALP has…

20 years since John Howard’s renewable energy policy

5 January 2024 2:25 am

It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to…

The energy Grinch

27 December 2023 2:06 pm

Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…

From West to East: shifting global power via Net Zero

21 December 2023 2:00 am

The 28th annual scourging of fossil fuel users, the Conference of Parties (COP28), has been and gone. Like the previous…

Capacity Investment Scheme hog-ties nation to energy woes

9 December 2023 2:13 pm

Market regulation is designed to modify the outputs of, and inputs to, goods and services. In doing so, they will…

The broken water politics of the Murray Darling Basin

25 November 2023 6:37 am

Twenty-five years ago, initiating a pattern that is now commonplace, a group of radical environmentalists calling themselves scientists launched a…

Labor cannot escape blame for economic woes

17 November 2023 12:36 am

The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Read demonstrated how Australia experienced a sharp reduction in living standards during the third quarter of 2023,…

The Paris crowd

7 November 2023 4:15 am

Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…

The Bowen delusion

30 October 2023 3:00 am

Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…

Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes

24 October 2023 4:30 am

If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…

Albanese’s heavy-handed government

7 October 2023 3:08 am

The contrast between the ALP’s most successful government – the Hawke-Keating government – and that of Mr Albanese is easily…

Labor in office: time to take stock

28 September 2023 5:00 am

The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Energy Minister were supposedly somewhat trained as economists, but all three fail to…

Unexpected costs

17 September 2023 4:00 am

Manipulated estimates of Levelised Cost of Energy tables showing wind and solar to be the cheapest supplies of energy are…

Spinning the myth of Global Warming for corporate gain

25 August 2023 4:00 am

Although in 2011, the Commonwealth Budget papers compiled all the measures that were being implemented to foster renewable energy, that…

The onset of bankruptcy: from green to red

13 August 2023 5:00 am

Like the onset of bankruptcy, great awakenings come slowly at first then rapidly. So it is with the global warming…

Global Boiling: Net Zero hysteria catches fire while Greens meltdown

3 August 2023 4:00 am

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has declared ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’. Australia’s Teals and Greens no doubt eagerly…

The $10 billion cabal of renewable subsidies killing coal

24 July 2023 4:30 am

At this time, the attack on fossil fuels, particularly coal, is at a crescendo. In North America with the dishonestly…

Why Dutton needs coal not renewables or nuclear

8 July 2023 4:45 am

Yesterday, Opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to embrace nuclear power to secure a clean, cost-effective, consistent electricity supply. …

The failure of forced transition despite public lust for green energy

1 July 2023 8:21 am

Throughout history, interactions of supply and demand have driven ‘transitions’ – think horses to cars and trains; whale oil to…

Jumpin’ Jack Flash: gas joins the ‘lexicon of evil’

26 June 2023 4:30 am

Gas has had a boomerang trajectory through green misanthropists’ ‘lexicon of evil’. In 1990, at the dawn of climate alarmism,…

World Bank woes

19 June 2023 6:00 am

The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…