Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Renewables are cheapest form of energy ‘if you get enough government subsidies’" video.

BS. The fossil fuel industries in Australia pay BILLIONS in tax and royalties to the State and Federal governments. They receive ZERO subsidies. Fossil fuels are one of the heaviest taxed products produced. The NSW and Victorian government budgets would fall apart without coal royalty income. And if you try and claim the diesel fuel rebate for non road use is a 'subsidy' then all you'll be doing is demonstration further how little you know about the subject. It is no more than the claimed refund of a major road upgrade surcharge component of tax that is applied to all diesel purchases, but the diesel is actually for a non road use eg. a farm tractor or fishing trawler. It is a refund of overpaid tax.
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@rattusfinkus Total BS. Australian governments provide ZERO subsidies or 'tax breaks' to the fossil fuel industry. They collect MASSIVE amounts of tax all alone the value add chain. From several billion dollars each year in coal royalties in both Queensland and NSW, to 50 cents from every liter of petrol or diesel that consumers stick in their cars. What payments are now made (or will be made in future) are solely the result of stupid government 'green' policies eg. subsidising the coal price to energy producers who just happen to own their own coal mines, or paying coal fired power station to now stay open after doing everything possible for the past several years to force them to close.
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@rattusfinkus And if you actually bothered to read the stupid report from which you just lifted the 'click bait' headline you'd recognise just how stupid and biased it is. FFS, counting the full cost of upgrades to the Port of Gladstone just because ONE of the products moving through the port is a fossil fuel. The whole report is riddled with such stupidity e.g. the full cost of a road because coal trucks drive on it.
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@rattusfinkus Just more of your BS. Take Newcastle for example. A vibrant major hub with a thriving economy, excellent food outlets everywhere, lovely development of the foreshore, live music playing in endless venues around town. What underpins all this and makes Newcastle a fantastic place to work and live, those 'dreaded' Hunter Valley coal mines and world's largest coal port going 24/7. And why has the potential to completely spoil the place? F'ing butt ugly offshore windfarms as far as the eye can see.
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