‘Major power pain’ on the way for Victorians

[@davidmolesworth583]

Cheap renewable power is Bulls..t- most expensive and unreliable form of power on the planet.

[@bluey9371]

Victoria…”The place to flee”

[@Mortimus1000]

This what we voted for .The big con.

[@paulsara9694]

Like California. Any similarity.

[@Kylie-oz3ks]

It's high time government buildings, and MPs' homes got switched off first and on last. Until these people start feeling the consequences of their bumbling and bungling, they won't get it.

[@jaquimeehan2743]

Not just the MPs homes but their whole electorate. All the Labor voters need to feel the pain of their vote.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

So you want to pay for an individual switch for each MP's home power supply? What about their offices? Some rural MPs have three electorate offices and one near parliament. If an office is in, say a shopping centre, do you turn all the power off? Hospitals are government buildings. I kinda like the idea of them having 24 hour electricity.

[@Toadie-t9u]

Maybe the Vic's are silly enough to vote Blackout Bowen as Melbourne lord mayor when he is turfedout of government!​@@Gough-jf9zf

[@imeagleeye1]

Our once prosperous country has been sold out by Politicians and public servants to privatisation and in there rush tripping over themselves to make a quick buck for themselves have destroyed Australians way of life.

[@lloydsingline340]

That's an accurate comment!!

[@WeveGotBush]

Why should we pay more for not providing a service.

[@robsin2810]

We have gone woke, and gone broke.

[@iainw5081]

Going Woke...going dark.

[@jim6534]

We have the cheapest power in the country😂

[@DannyHawthorne-w9t]

Victoria knew this was coming and yet they still voted labor back in so go figure

[@ate71622]

No,only a little over 1/3 voted Labor,the others voted liberal and minor parties.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@ate71622 Biggest vote wins the prize. That translated to a two-to-one majority in the lower house for Labor, so clearly a sh1tload of Victorians disagree with you.

[@brennom6725]

@@Gough-jf9zf The criminally corrupt preferential voting system fucks us every time.

[@thomasclayton169]

Can't wait to vote out these woke morons (Labour)

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@@Gough-jf9zf : Nope. Labor won on preferences and we do NOT have a first-passed-the post voting system.

[@scottlennon3884]

What did you think would happen after you blew up your coal power stations ?

[@lloydsingline340]

They used to celebrate those blow ups in Victoria!!I think that they went off a bit early!!.

[@terryquarton2523]

Didn't you hear could be? Were are all.these black outs.

[@gregwooldridge8864]

Victorian politicians working on the Venezuelan policy modle.

[@iainw5081]

Actually Venezuela has been trashed by US financial, economic and technical sanctions. Victoria is trashing its economy all by itself with no external influence.

[@mrcool-m2n]

​@iainw5081 venu trashed it self worth governemt policies. Facts

[@HDXFH]

@@iainw5081WEF are behind it

[@douglasbanks3318]

Blackouts happen every 2nd day in rural VIC ,always around 2 am in the morning for some reason ,the blackouts last for around 5 mins ,this has been going on for 2 years now ,i dont why

[@suekimpton7874]

I find this ridiculous when people are putting solar on their houses and it's taken by electricity company to feed into the system. So are they stealing it and using it elsewhere. So stoopid.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

They are taking the _excess_ power generated and using it. No householder will get rich from selling their excess electricity, but they _are_ getting paid.

[@suekimpton7874]

@Gough-jf9zf For now but this is going to change soon.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@suekimpton7874 Change in what way?

[@suekimpton7874]

@@Gough-jf9zf you will have to pay to get your solar electricity soon - fed back into the system for you to buy back. You need a huge battery but they don't exist for houses and too dangerous.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

@@suekimpton7874 Batteries _do_ exist for houses, but are currently expensive. they're pretty small. Like solar panels, they'll keep dropping in price and increasing in safety. "...fed back into the system for you to buy back" isn't a very accurate description. _Some_ suppliers are introducing a surcharge, but those selling to the grid will still earn more than the charge.

[@easyz6654]

Hey, they told us renewables will give us cheap electricity. And Sleazy - where's our $275.00 off our electricity bills!

[@graemekeeley4497]

Victoria the State Reaping what its voters have "allowed its Labor Government to sow"

[@grumpy-g5s]

lets get the electric car movement going with higher charges lol!

[@sportsfamily4569]

Same thing happened when people converted their cars to gas tanks the price of gas skyrocketed.

[@grumpy-g5s]

@ and where is lpg now almost extinct

[@SueMccorkell]

Renewal energy is driving up inflation also. To produce anything requires energy if energy is expensive it drives the cost of our products sold to the consumer inturn that affects inflation. Albo will continue with the renewable energy scheme because he will never admit it is the most costly mistake any government has made in Australia.

[@lloydsingline340]

Must be only in Victoria. I just heard Chalmers say on a Sunrise interview that our electricity bills had come down by 21%.I left my toast to check my last bill and found that it had actually gone up !! Grim Jim wouldn't tell lies would he?

[@PhilipBuchanan-sb6bx]

Jim is from Qld the previous state gov't gave everybody $1000 for their electricity.

[@patriot388]

The Chairmans policies coming back to haunt Victorians! 🙄

[@childensstorytime]

Stop government wage rises is nuts, this needs to go to paying off our whole Australians debt.

[@bones8961]

I wouldn't be giving any wage rises to the public sector. In a cost of living crisis, private sector workers aren't getting rises. Most are already on a decent income compared to the private sector. And politicians haven't taken a pay cut. They got a large increase last year. Out of touch or what !

[@silurian9420]

Does not Australia export coal to China and India for electricity and steel production ?

[@aaronmoffatt4771]

Shhh climate conn

[@greghaydon1392]

Wow what an achievement delivering sky high energy cost, in a cost of living crisis! Major achievement way to go Victoria, so i forget didnt Albo say they were going down by $275? Mr Transparency must have got the plus and minus sign mixed up! After all his word is his bond.

[@lloydsingline340]

How could you forget !! Albo made that promise ( electricity prices down by $275 ) 98 times !!

[@antonbrum5492]

I live not far from a large wind farm, no wind no electricity. Maybe the city folk should get in their Tesla cars and visit here on non windy days Sorry, they can't, they don't have the electricity to make the return trip.

[@Gough-jf9zf]

If you have no electricity, how are you posting comments? Even if it's on your phone, it'll need recharging.

[@tonym7012]

Make energy expensive - punish the poor!

[@MrMikeV00]

Have a friend of mine in the que. He is ex special boat squadron plenty of warfighting experience. Been waiting 2 years done medical just waiting for the call. You'd think you'd expedite when you are getting someone with experience.

[@jeffsmart7674]

Time to sack these extra 35,000 public servants, and 9 of the 11 advisors to the PM, obviously they haven’t got anything right in 3 years

[@brothermaynard3200]

It seems every generation has to learn the hard way. Socialism means misery.

[@Pawelmps]

We are short on electricity, so we should start buying more electric cars…😅.

[@thepretenda]

THEY CAN FREEZE!!

[@stevenhamilton9790]

Not if you can think there’s always a way if you can think of it and with power bill’s I’ve screwed there agenda

[@MrNorris121]

We need cheap power .Nuclear Power , 200 billion is all we need. Biuld a couple of plants . A good base load to give us cheaper electricity.

[@iainw5081]

Nothing wrong with coal or gas or nuclear. Technologies have been developed to increase thermal coal plant efficiency, scrub gases and remove particulate.

[@MrNorris121]

I agree, though transporting coal by trucks is a bit dirty.

[@childensstorytime]

Been through blackouts. Let people join defence Australians

[@paulsara9694]

The gearboxes in wind turbines are supposed to last 20 years but they last about 7 years and cost a fortune to replace.

[@rogermckinnon5738]

Unfortunately, it's not just Victoria. Thanks to labors' renewables, South Australia has to import much of its power from Victoria and NSW because renewables can't cope with normal demand. If Victoria loses power because it can't keep up with demand there. How do you expect South Australia to cope. We already have the dearest and most unreliable power in Australia now.

[@Batman-lives]

That’s a perfect example of how the super battery is completely useless!!!

[@rogermckinnon5738]

@Batman-lives lol you mean the one just down the road from me at Jamestown that lasts only 8 minutes at full load

[@Gough-jf9zf]

That battery saved SA's Rs a couple of years back.

[@rogermckinnon5738]

@Gough-jf9zf 🤣🤣🤣

[@Batman-lives]

That’s the one … Truely stunning way to waste money

[@9keillen]

Led lights, energy rated products, solar and wind power and are energy infrastructure is screwed and ...... we get massive bills, peoples heads need to roll over this this includes politicians and business executives of these companies, enough is enough of this crap it's close to pitch fork time

[@jim6534]

I heard this for years

[@lapidary70]

🤣🤣 ncmsism really playing out so well for Victoriana 🤣🤣🤡

[@chrisholznagel7428]

That woke state deserves it. Vote labor this will happen.

[@childensstorytime]

Can we stop spending money we don’t have please. Government should be controlling defence and not private seriously.

[@henryhryckiewicz858]

Labour Party will tell you that they can harness lightning for free power and many bewildered believe them.

[@Gareth-c1d]

SECV sold in the 80,s by the then Liberal Govt.Privatisation =higher prices.

[@Batman-lives]

Victorian people need to remember, they voted for this ….. You get what you voted for !!!

[@kendrickbrown7209]

How's all that green energy working 4 ya now....don't export power down their, let them rely on the wind and sun.

[@kevinwong3722]

Albo and Allen go woke or go broke

[@brentritchie6199]

It's not fair Victorians have all the fun!

[@sportsfamily4569]

What do you mean lowest power cost in the country?

[@brooster3471]

Ha Ha, get what you voted for 🤪🤪

[@terryquarton2523]

Good on you could.be Murdoch's gutterpress brings a first?

[@clydesimpson1462]

We do not need another form of energy production (nuclear). What Australia needs is a Prime Minister with a big set of cojones that will drive down the cost of coal and gas. Extracting coal and gas in Australia and expecting Australians to pay world prices is nothing short of criminal. A Prime minister that will put all coal and gas exporters on notice that anything above cost plus 10% for the domestic market is unacceptable. If there is a non compliance, then the Navy is brought in and nothing leaves Australian shores. These foreign companies have had their day in the sun and the tide needs to turn in favour of the consumer. All the deadwood needs pruning and a return to low energy prices. This is all achievable and requires a Government to stop playing God with Australians and business owners. Bowens Folly.

[@davidbryant7503]

Sorry. If there is a proud Australians that what to protect us. What is going on if they are not able to.

[@MrNorris121]

We need to spend $200 -$400 billion on nuclear power plants . Base load power. Also train our emergency services in plutonium handling. Dispose the spent uranium in special lead drums. Will no leak if msde correctly. This will give us the cheap power that we need..❤❤❤❤

[@brothermaynard3200]

Go and play outside.

[@bodhi9464]

😂 good luck with your electric cars .. I miss gas heating .. I’ve managed to keep my gas cooktop .. 🇦🇺 this is all set up to f’ people up … control control control … for ya safety !! 🙄

[@richardcarey169]

Oh dear never mind 😂

[@idontlikecomputers-q8l]

😂😂😂😂

[@robpinter5431]

If the ADF knows what their job is...Hmmm might offend too many DIE evangelists The APS side of the ADF needs to be looked at too where DIE is more important than delivering capability to the war fighter..... yes the war fighter primary role of the ADF, if the APS side does not like that then get a job elsewhere.

[@wozm9924]

Haven't heard much about that proposed statue constructed in honour of Chairman Dan lately. Isn't he still the hero of Victorians? They voted for him, his cronies and his policies.

[@mariomoleta1545]

ARREST AMBROSARIO IMMEDIATELY.

[@natalieking9246]

Thats Lily D'Bozo

[@johnperry7534]

Recruiting ? I could do it from My home office for the whole of the adf , and do it in my pyjamas . I will have them lined up at the bases within days . So if you chuck me 1.4 billion I’m putting my hand up for the contract. I’ll even put on a tie for the online interviews but from the waist down I’ll be in pyjamas, that’s how easy it is. One point for billion dollars eh? How much more Corruption can we take in this country , how many more houses on cliffs overlooking the sea do our prime Ministers need? For fucks sake!!

[@Gough-jf9zf]

How's one connected to the other?

[@WayneButler-j1w]

Why do i get fined for not voting for idiots 😂

[@jimbaker7277]

Victorians don't cry over high power costs. You voted for Labor over last ten years you fools. Enjoy the long hot summer. I hope it gets real hot.