As I’ve said. From the SMH:
Hugh Saddler, a principal consultant for energy analysts Pitt & Sherry, said it had been ”almost impossible” to see the carbon price footprint when it was introduced, and it would be no easier if it was removed. The Australian Bureau of Statistics agreed.
”The ABS is not able to quantify the impact of the introduction of carbon pricing, compensation or other government incentives and cannot produce estimates of price change exclusive of the carbon price,” the ABS said in a statement.
”Similarly, the ABS will not be able to quantify the impact of removing the carbon price [if that were to occur].”
While consumers would have lower electricity prices if the carbon price was eliminated, the benefit was likely to be dwarfed by other changes in energy prices, the director of the Grattan Institute’s energy program Tony Wood said.
