Grattan delivers energy billpocalypse

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One of the worst fads of the energy transition has been the push from various state authorities to get households off gas and onto electricity.

Tony Wood at the corrupt Grattan Institute began it. Various gullible and noxious pollies, especially in VIC, embraced it as a great distraction from Wood’s former employer and Grattan sponsor, Origin Energy, as it raped the East Coast economy by sending cheap gas to China while charging locals scarcity prices.

Yet, there are still dark corners of the MSM where the truth oozes out.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.