Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIANS will be hit with higher electricity bills if the nation fails to implement a carbon price, the head of NSW’s electricity price regulator says. Rod Sims, who is chairman of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal, said that contrary to the Coalition’s “cost of living” attack, an efficient carbon price offers households by far the cheapest way to meet Australia’s greenhouse gas reduction targets. “By not having a carbon price we are going to have energy price increases anyway…