Watching the news tonight, there were comments about Melbourne's transport and power issues - how the current exceptional heat wave is causing widespread disruption. Some idiot commented that "we are unwilling to pay the cost" of setting up system that runs. So....
Last year and the year before, people were saying that the state power infrastructure has not kept pace with the growth of the state. Hey presto, this year it fails and "they" say ""Oh, we didn't know". Bollocks. Too damn macho keen on keeping the budget positive and bugger trying to actually develop the state.
Furthermore, what about the wonders of privatisation? Perhaps if we didn't take 5% out of the power companies as dividends to the private investors, but instead had kept it in public hands and reinvested the money in infrastructure, we would not be in the shit.
They are also saying that "the rails are buckling with the heat because of the wooden sleepers". Are they suych a new invention? What happened 100 years ago when the only choice was wooden sleepers? What about the Indian Pacific railway through the nullarbor? This was originally built on wooden sleepers, and regularly gets days over 40C. Argghh....
It was 40 again today, and projected 43 with north winds. Bad fire day. I think it is just a drought, but I wish the world would get its shit together on global warming and try to do something.
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