Gas companies will be ‘destroying demand’ in the long term by not taking on new customers
“Not all but many gas users have an opportunity to use electricity and if they can’t get gas at reasonable prices … then they will switch,” Ms Reeve told Sky News Australia.“It’s really not in the gas companies’ interests to try and hold the domestic market to ransom.”
Price caps = production falls = supply pressures = higher prices for longer. Economics 101. Labor’s intervention has made itself responsible for pricing & supply. Comical. 🍿
Albanese is destroying the gas industry being in thrall to the green lobby.
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