Is it time for Australians to stop cooking with gas?
The change in public sentiment has been incredibly swift. For generations, in a triumph of marketing spin over fact, Australians have believed ‘gas cooks better’. So what changed so quickly and irreversibly?
You can thank Australia’s worst ever prime minister - Scott John Morrison. In a career marked by outrageous bullshitting, he finally hit bullshit overload during Covid-19. A #GasLedRecovery and a National Covid Commission stacked with fossil fuel miners was too much for even the most gullible punter.
When the microscope and later the blowtorch was turned on the #GasLedRecovery it was quickly revealed that gas was not the future, it was not an intermediate step to the future, in fact it was a pretty shithouse present.
So Scott Morrison killed the golden gas goose, poked the zero emissions bear and shat in his own nest. All in the search of a bigger rort. And I thought he never did anything good.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/11/18/is-it-time-for-australians-to-stop-cooking-with-gas.html