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But he wants to keep the climate change authority, which would suggest he would vote against the repeal bill.
Modelling for the climate change authority by Sinclair Knight Merz found removing the RET altogether would reduce an average household bill by just $15 a year.
Palmer's press statement says he wants to insert the whole emissions trading scheme as an amendment in the climate change authority repeal bill.
Neither the Coalition nor the Labor party has said they would agree to the higher 2020 goals they originally promised, under conditions the independent climate change authority says have now been met.
Would the Palmer United party (PUP) keep the clean energy finance corporation, the climate change authority, even the emissions trading scheme in a kind of hibernating state in preparation for tougher international action?
Palmer announced PUP will also vote against the abolition of the $10bn "green bank", the independent Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the independent climate change authority, meaning the government does not have the numbers to axe either body.
Last week, the head of the independent climate change authority and former Reserve Bank Governor Bernie Fraser described the prime minister's claims about a $600bn hit and a 2% economic impact as "weird" and "misleading".
And the climate change authority, when it last reviewed the RET in December 2012, found there was a good case to keep it to continue to encourage investment in renewable power.
There were "wars" on anyone who criticised – from the ABC, to human rights commission president Gillian Triggs, to conservation groups with the temerity to take action under federal conservation law, to the climate change authority for calling out the ridiculous misuse of figures.
