'Training your horse to eat rocks': Joyce slams 80 per cent renewables push by 2030

Former deputy PM Barnaby Joyce has labelled people who radically seek green energy as a “cult that sits behind the so-called energy plan”. “80 per cent renewables by 2030? It is mad – it is like training your horse to eat rocks,” Mr Joyce told Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt. “You just about got it broken in and it dies of starvation. “It just doesn’t work – physics wins every time. “You can’t keep turning off your power plants and think you are going to have power – you should always make sure your replacement is up and running first. “If you want zero emissions, there is only one way to go and that is nuclear.”