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Marn has given us the new word 'commerciality' to join the political lexicon along with Downer's 'inappropriate modalities'. However his economic philosophy comes straight from a movie 'get the money, get the money, get the money'.
One the one hand we have dead ducks, sacked airline staff and dried up rivers; on the other it's flog as much coal, gas and phosphate overseas as quickly as possible. Maybe it has something to do with commerciality.
Maybe its a euphemism for "short termism".
The lack of vision remains staggering - though perhaps the vision is "make as much money as we can before the rest of the world stops buying".
It would be interesting to run some scenarios around what would happen to our balance of payments if Gore's plan miraculously was implemented fully - the US no longer an importer of any form of energy, and cheap renewable energy technology available on a massive scale to the next round of buyers once US build out is complete.
Maybe Marn's got the fear that our economy will be all washed up in a decade from now - and we need to stock up on as many plasma TVs and foreign cars as we can now while the going is good.
Doesn't help the ducks of course...