Peeved power punters, as far as the eye can see.

Depriving ordinary people of something long considered a basic necessity of life, is one sure fire way to get their backs up.

When that ‘necessity’ is something that people have rightly come to assume will always be available to them, at an affordable price, and the price suddenly escalates without reasonable explanation, confusion tends to frustration.

When the “explanation” is that the price has escalated due to a deliberate government policy, which sees billions of dollars tacked onto power consumers’ bills (or filched from them as taxpayers) and transferred to wind power outfits, “frustration” turns to marching in the streets; and even violent protests.

In Australia, tens of thousands of homes have been disconnected from the electricity grid, simply because retail power prices have escalated as a result of the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target and the great wind power fraud…