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Don't Meddle in Petrol
As every car owner knows, the price of petrol fluctuates. In metropolitan areas the price moves between about 85 and 99 cents per litre. Those in...
Too Much Energy Going into Regulations
No serious authority can deny the price and performance improvement that has taken place in Australia's electricity and gas industries. Since its...
Green Power Will Cost Us
The ALP's policy decision to ratify the Kyoto Convention on greenhouse would deliver a cruel blow to the Victorian electricity industry and to the...
Politics of Power
QUEENSLAND Premier Peter Beattie has made the astonishing suggestion that he will turn national competition policy into an election issue if he...
Cheaper Power Calling
Do you remember those evening phone calls inviting you to switch your phone carrier? Well, within the next few months you find a new horde of...
Powering Into Problems
VICTORIAN electricity prices are heading north. Our bills essentially comprise two components: the energy cost and the charges for transporting it...
Let the Power Flow
The Victorian Government finds itself between a rock and a hard place on electricity prices. Either it must allow price increases to households of...
California: Causing a Re-think of Electricity Policy?
The Californian power crisis presents all governments with a salutary lesson. For almost two years now Californians have been facing rolling...
Time to Stop Bashing Petrol Companies
It is time that pollies and the regulators stopped playing politics with petrol. Their frequent claims of price gouging by the petrol companies are...
Lessons from the California Energy Crisis
The energy crisis in California should ring alarm bells in Australia, though not for the reason commonly suggested. California---a state of 34...