{"id":250355,"date":"2025-10-30T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250355\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:44:11","slug":"tom-elliott-on-why-energy-prices-keep-rising-and-how-its-impacting-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250355\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Elliott on why energy prices keep rising and how it&#8217;s impacting inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Elliott has shared his take on why Australians are being forced to pay more and more for energy, with prices up more than 34 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The 3AW Mornings host has blamed various government policies, pointing to what he calls the \u201cdemonisation\u201d of coal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the likes of Chris Bowen, the Energy Minister, say \u2018Oh well, let\u2019s replace them with renewables\u2019. Well, we\u2019re about halfway through that project, and it\u2019s not working,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear his full comments<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>CEO at the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, then weighed in on the \u201cconcerning\u201d inflation data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnergy intensive industries are now finding it very hard, if not impossible to operate,\u201d Willox told Tom Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear him voice his concerns<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image: 3AW, iStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Elliott has shared his take on why Australians are being forced to pay more and more for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-250355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}