Nationals MP Keith Pitt says intermittent wind and solar “doesn’t cut the mustard”.
“I can tell you what will happen if the Greens continue to get their way which is what we’re seeing under the current Labor government,” Mr Pitt told Sky News host
Rowan Dean.Mr Pitt said Germany has put up $200 billion subsidy for the cost of electricity because the cost has “quadrupled” and no one could “afford to pay them”.
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