Most Queenslanders Weve Spoken to Would Prefer this Daylight Saving Model - Not the one mentioned in the news article further below that would still underutilise daylight, and come at a cost that would still be felt in rural and regional centres. https://google/maps/ms?msid=215822419118359031086.0004c8e1173225fe2a29c&msa=0&ll=-19.020577,143.679199&spn=12.690132,19.753418&iwloc=0004c8f50d9c735badc39 Note: Where the line is drawn should be up to the people to decide via an opt-in/opt out referendum. That would need to be after a trial reveals relevant data outcomes. Why is this model being well backed? * It gets the daylight balance right for ALL QLD regions to help reduce public costs. * Getting the daylight balance right for ALL helps reduce road fatalities & crime. * ALL QLD regions will gain economically at a national level - ALL are more in sync * Hardly any of the western QLD people weve discussed it with are opposed to it. * 3 eastern summer zones become a more convenient 2 for the economy. * Any 1 hour time differences down the east are halved to no more than 30 minutes * Household consumers need not use as much artificial light between 4 and 8PM. * Solar homes will become more self-sufficient during the costly 4 - 8PM period. However, the model mentioned in this article below is NOT very popular: dailyadvertiser.au/story/2358083/daylight-saving-get-rid-of-it/ Why? * Its a model that will still underutilise daylight down the populated east, and come at a purpose-defeating cost that the rest of the state would still feel. How so? Just like we should never tell 2 synchronized swimmers to swim differently (that would be very foolish indeed), we should never ONLY have rural-populated regions delivering the benefits of a responsible daylight policy (saves the government money in their regions), yet watch that very same type of money theyll save the government get wasted away big time in the populated east, all because they havent got their own daylight balance right - Easts costs will blow wests savings = Rural and regional centres unfairly ripped of funding-wise. So this new 1 zone proposal mentioned gets an F for fail as we back the need for: * ALL QLD regions to Get their Daylight Balance Right! - Deliver same benefits * ALL long and short terms public funds ALL regions save to go to rural centres The 1 zone proposal is a recipe to impose a Net Shortfall Levy on the rural regions (deprive them of vital funding), quite simply because theyll lose more than the money theyll be saving the government - That will be thanks to the east still overly underutilising its daylight at a massive cost. QLDs Liberal and Labor Parties stand accused of only knowing all too well how to deprive rural and regional centres when it comes to daylight policy in this state.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:14:40 +0000