cool cool.Originally Posted by My2BobsWorth
So we are talking about the 'poles and wires' yeah?
Go look at the Post Office and see where holding on to a govt funded 'asset' too long gets you.
Govt obviously thinks that assets like poles and wires/ports/generators etc have a shelf life and if they can get good money for them now to fund further economic development and create more govt 'assets' (that then can then generate more income from) then they should do it.
Going off Labors numbers the 'poles and wires' generate $1.7b per year for the govt. leasing 49% of that means they 'lose' $850m per annum but get $20b up front (remembering the Govt will still get that other $850m per year from the remaining 51%).
Say the advancement in technology of renewable energies (not to mention the Nuclear debate)determines that traditional means of delivering power to your home makes the reliance on these 'poles and wires' less important and therefore less valuable? Do we still make the $1.7 per annum from them in the future? who knows?
What? could that really happen? oh wait thats exactly whats happening to the Post Office. you think anyone 30 years ago would dare have thought that we could send correspondence without going through the govt controlled monopoly? no way.
State govt is striking while the iron is hot. i can see where they are coming from.
Also, considering probably 99% of your daily interactions are with products/services provided by the private sector I think its safe to assume you have survived the rigours of dealing with them yeah?
Im sure dealing with one more "big bad business" in your day wont hurt.
Of course once Skynet gets hold of me feel free to mock and bellow to the world 'I told you so'.
Cheers,
Plague
aka Mr Smartarse.
(Anyway as Dunster said we are all living in a vacuum where right is left and left is right so whats it matter yeah?).
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