Hong Kong Hothouse keeps Humming along

Well, the footy season is almost over, it is for my footy team anyway.

They seem to think Bali, Phuket, or Hong Kong to be better options than the MCG in September…have for most of their history actually.

I digress, but having just come back from Hong Kong, I can actually see what they are on about.

The place was buzzing and booming along, and everything – and I mean everything – works like a well-oiled Swiss clock.

The MTR railway system is superb, with some of the cleanest ablutions I have ever seen.

The people just go about life with a minimum of fuss, and don’t stop.

I took the family to Disneyland, with another one million mainland Chinese.

And it was sensational, if not a little hot and steamy.

The kids and the missus soldiered on, but we did have to depart for a pool stop in between.

What struck me, however, was how much electricity was being used everywhere I went on Hong Kong Island, and other territories.

The place was lit up like a Christmas tree, and Disneyland was the most power hungry place I’ve seen…Oh, and I have been to Las Vegas.

It struck me that Julia Gillard should take a visit from Canberra to Disneyland.

She might then realize that coal helps kids have a great time, and it also keeps people cool from the elements as well.

There are power stations all over the Hong Kong territories generating the power needed to keep things ticking along.

Now, I presume a lot of the coal may have come from the east coast of Australia, with money coming back to help employment and communities in those regions.

Oh, and those exports would have paid a few royalties and taxes to the respective Australian state governments.

Bite the hand that feeds you, indeed.

I have heard a fair bit about China leading the world in renewable energy, and I have no reason to doubt that they are.

But while I was there all I saw were big, efficient power stations.

Most of the millions or so people I saw there looked quite happy and comfortable with themselves too, and obviously they don’t have the same democratic right as I do, but perhaps that’s a good thing.

I think the current Prime Minister may wish that Adult Aussies shouldn’t have a democratic right either, hopefully in the not too distant future.