Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Elites are completely captured by ‘anti-coal narrative’" video.

  1. The point is that we can use both energy assets, coal first then nuclear. Just the coal reserve is worth 8 trillion dollars, so letting the anti-coal mob devalue it down to almost nothing is the equivalent of having $320,000 stolen from each and every individual in Australia. Would you let somebody steal a house (worth of wealth) from you if you realised what they were doing? The general public seem to be blind to the fact that this rip-off is going down and most of the media is complicit in the scam. So why do they want to impoverish us like that? Power, to keep us down and disempowered. I am gobsmacked that the industrial unions are helping the left of politics to do this too, they have completely sold out the common man in this country, pushing the middle and working classes further away from the prosperity that a citizen of such a lucky country should reasonably expect to have.
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  2.  Don Jhonson  Mate that is utter bullshit and misdirection. Do you think the Germans have the right idea, lots of solar etc. they actually import heaps of electricity from France and they have imported huge amounts of Australian uranium over the years. You don't hear about problems in France from all of their reactors and processing plants. So nah spare us the ignorant fear mongering, you need to come up with a smarter reason than fear.
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  3.  @cognitivedissident9825  No that is simply the value of the coal in the ground, if we export it then we only get 10% of that in royalties, but if we use it to power our own economy and value add to our metal ore exports then we get the full value, obviously. Once that coal is harder to mine and utilise than uranium then we can transition, same with fusion power toward the end of the century, but my point is that in the meantime we need to realise that full value and not let the left of politics effectively steal that value right out from under us on some sort of bogus environmental or climate grounds.
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  4.  Don Jhonson  Coal, gas, uranium, thorium, fusion driven nuclear waste fission, they are all energy assets and those trillions of dollars should not be thrown away on a wim. We should first exploit the reserves that are most accessible in terms of acquiring and utilising them and when they get low we leave some in reserve and move on to the next type. This would guarantee Australia many centuries of energy supplies before we need to switch to pure fusion reactors, however they will arrive before then end of this century anyway, perhaps much sooner, so we need realise the value in our existing assets before fusion technology renders them truly redundant and worthless. It baffles me that the political and media classes don't get this.
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