‘We’re saving water, but bills to double’
from News.com:
“CONSUMERS are more passionate than ever about saving water but instead of being rewarded for their efforts, prices are set to double in the next five to 10 years.”
[Spot sez: Passionate? You sure it's nothing to do with those draconian water restrictions? Or the fear of being murdered by over-zealous eco-fascists whilst watering?]
“Last year, Melbourne had the lowest per capita water consumption since 1934, while Sydney consumed the same amount of water it did in 1974, despite 1.2 million additional residents.”
[Spot sez: Whoo-hoo! 1934! You win, Melbourne -- Sydney's progressives only managed to throw it back to 1974. ]
“But despite efforts to save water, bills will balloon during the next decade.”
[Spot wonders: What if we manage to get water use down to pre-Federation levels?]
Wake up, people! This is what self-proclaimed progressives have done to you. Who wants a 1934 standard of living in a first-world capital city? You want 1934? Here’s a newsreel of Melbourne in 1934. Now go build some dams and let us garden like it’s 1999.
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And, via Andrew Bolt, in other progressive news:
“The car is doomed,” Monash University associate professor Damon Honnery said, discussing the findings of a soon-to-be-published research paper, Mitigating Greenhouse: Limited Time, Limited Options, written with Dr Patrick Moriarty.
Federal and state governments should stop building new arterial roads… Instead, governments must focus on phasing out cars…
“People are going to have to fundamentally change the way they think about travel and make much more use of non-motorised travel such as cycling and walking.”…
The big emission cuts needed in the transport sector require a near-total shift from the private car to public transport, the paper argues.
Dr Moriarty also believes there must be big reductions in air travel. “An overseas trip might become a once-in-a-lifetime experience rather than an annual event,” he said.
Bloody hell. Water usage legislated back to 1934 levels, no new roads, cars phased out, overseas holidays reduced to “once-in-a-lifetime” … If we’re not careful, our progressive policies are going to “progress” us right back to the 1800’s.
March 3, 2008, 5:12 am at 5:12 am
When do the ships full of Leftards arrive? I need to have my guns ready to defend my land.
March 3, 2008, 6:32 am at 6:32 am
Dr Moriaty, huh? How apt can you get? Complete with evil scheme, no less.
March 3, 2008, 6:50 am at 6:50 am
#2 I know – I did check the calendar when I saw that article, to make sure it wasn’t April 1st!
March 3, 2008, 7:03 am at 7:03 am
Elementary, my dear Watson: The man is a leftard.
March 3, 2008, 7:46 am at 7:46 am
Its a bit like bragging your feeling younger and wanting prople to congratulate you because you crapped your pants.
Are they so incompitent they cant produce more water, cheaper?
March 3, 2008, 11:35 am at 11:35 am
Glenn Beck just mentioned the Bolt piece on his radio program.
Serious question.
Why don’t you just build some freaking desalination plants? It’s not like you don’t have enough ocean or coastlines to fit the bill. You can actually have all the water you need, if you want it.
March 3, 2008, 5:06 pm at 5:06 pm
Yojimbo
I agree with your “Serious question”. Only things I see in it ARE…Some ass hat down under, just as some ass hat here would scream to high heaven…One, ‘They will drain the Pacific dry’. Two, ‘They will destroy our Great Barrier Reef’. Three, ‘They will suck and kill, all the fish’.
March 3, 2008, 5:21 pm at 5:21 pm
#6 #7 Over East in Victoria and New South Wales, the Greens have led a strident “no new dams” policy for years, so that even as the population grows, no new water supplies are coming on line. If you do a blogsearch of Andrew Bolt’s archives, he’s been on the case of these “no dams” crusaders for years. The Greens and Labor have had some awfully dodgy excuses, the strangest of which come out in our most recent dry spell.
That was, that it’s no good building any moe dams, because we haven’t had much rain. “Building more dams won’t make it rain” was the big argument. The two obvious things they miss are that (a) better to have 3 dams at 30% capacity than 1, and (b) droughts don’t last forever, so when it does break let’s have something to catch the rain.
Now the drought has broken, we’ve had deluges of rain, and surprise, it all gets washed out to sea.
March 3, 2008, 7:26 pm at 7:26 pm
#2 Dminor: Excellent observation!