cods wrote on May 23
rd, 2019 at 7:43am:
lol right to the end the Tele told us Labor was going to win....no ifs or buts " Fete accompli" ... the libs would be lucky to be the opposition....
I dont recall News Ltd vandalising posters... or making cruel dishonest ads that needed to be withdrawn.....I dont recall them making phone calls around the neighbourhood or attacking volunteers....
perhaps you have details of them doing so....
GETUP on the other hand........
It’s been quite an extraordinary election campaign. Every day, readers have been able to turn to the Murdoch media stable – Sky News, The Australian and the state-based tabloids to read or listen to some complete nonsense about climate change science, renewables, or electric vehicles.
It’s a tough call, given the intense competition, but if we had to give a prize to the dumbest story of all, it would likely be The Australian columnist Robert Gottliebsen and his story entitled Electric cars are already causing some grid failures.
According to Gottliebsen, a friend of his had told him about an unidentified street in Melbourne where six households had a Tesla EV, and when just three of four of them charged at the same time, the power went out.
“It’s a crisis that has been concealed from the vast majority of the population,” Gottliebsen writes.
“The danger really came home to me when I met up with an affluent, long-time Melbourne acquaintance who lives in a street where there are six Tesla cars. When they all try to charge their batteries at the same time, the power goes out in the street because the grid fails. Sometimes it fails when only three or four of them try to charge at the same time.”
The claim is laughable because most Tesla EVs are powered at home by a 7kW charger, which is about the same as many electric ovens and air conditioning units. And nearly all houses have these, and in the summer heat turn them on at the same time. (Some Tesla’s, such as chief scientist Alan Finkel’s, trickle feed from a normal socket).
As one Tesla officianado noted: “I did see that (Gottliebsen article) posted a while back and it’s pretty much entirely baseless crap. For starters, this was discussed on the Tesla Australia Slack group and no-one there (200+ Tesla owners) could pinpoint where 6 Teslas exist on one street. Sounds made up to start with.”
Still, we decided to check with all the local grid operators in Melbourne. Had there been any such cases? No, came the answer.
“In regards to home EV chargers, they are not causing reliability issues, such as outages, on our networks,” said Emma Tyner, who speaks on behalf of Powercor, Citipower and United Energy.
“We have not had blackouts or major network issues caused by EVs in our network,” said Helena Lilley, from Ausnet.
Well id say that was a bit biased Cods... I see at the Sunshine Coast they put a Gun site on a Labor premier and said she is next on the front page....
Nah not involving themselves at all or using dirty Tactics.....
Your right Get up do political things,, after all they are a political organization, Murdock is supposed to be a Neutral News Agency and only tell the news, but we all know that isn't the case.
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