Is the Coalition's gas nirvana just an attempt to have its fossil fuel cake and eat it too? | Katharine Murphy

Ten years ago politicians used to talk up the virtues of gas as a transitional fuel. But that was 10 years agoTen years ago, when Australia's climate and energy botch-up was still in its infancy, politicians and their advisers used to talk up the virtues of gas as a transitional fuel, and they used to talk about carbon capture and storage (CCS) as technology that governments needed to invest in to drive the transition to low-emissions economies.The great botch-up is now well past infancy, and Australia's record on climate and energy is a disaster so profound it's still traumatising backstage protagonists years after the stadium rock wreckers have left the crime scene. Continue reading...