China’s ban on fuel exports is deeply worrying for Australian air travellers
https://theconversation.com/chinas-ban-on-fuel-exports-is-deeply-worrying-for-australian-air-travellers-278313
China’s ban on fuel exports is deeply worrying for Australian air travellers
https://theconversation.com/chinas-ban-on-fuel-exports-is-deeply-worrying-for-australian-air-travellers-278313
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The Government should look at supporting LPG like Howard did 20 plus years ago.
edit – Can anyone downvoting explain why? I’m legitimately curious to know what your reasoning is.
Yup. Expect rationing this week. Cancelling of ALL customer flights. The age of globalisation is over
Crazy that one of the sunniest countries in the world is still behind the curve on solar, batteries and EVs
Every country works to secure their energy needs and independence, ours are doing the opposite
Good thing we invested is high speed rail between the major city centres. Oh wait…
All business travel is non essential. Just like my firm did: we cancelled all travel via Middle East
I’ve purchased eight flights in the last week (right up till Xmas’ return) to avoid gauging from Qantas starting up.
These were trips I’d planned but not yet brought.
Airlines hedge, and after the stupid bailouts they got during covid, I’d make a point to not pay them more.
This is a smokescreen over the core issue. Having 100% renewable energy isn’t going to fix airplanes that run on fossil fuel. And here we are with the current government supplying more missiles and military to support the invasion of Iran, adding fuel the the fire (pun intended).
It’s almost like there’s been calls to wean Australia (and in particular, regional Australia) off fossil fuels for decades…
Luckily Angus Taylor contracted out Australia’s emergency reserves to, looks up notes, Texas and no government since has changed that.
Fantastic move, well done Angus.
When the decades of selling our resources to lobbying thieves and foreign powers at no cost, thanks to our successive bootlicking governments finally pays off.
Vote for a party that isn’t Coalition/Labour/One Nation and isn’t a corporate bootlicker
Oh no, Jaxxson and Tash wanted to go to Bali to get pissed and new tatts on the cheap. China, Iran and USA just declared war on their way of life.
So many trips could be a zoom meeting.
We have entire teams rooms with giant screens and multiple microphones etc. don’t need to be so wasteful with money and energy.
There’s a tank leaking aircraft fuel in Darwin. Good time to empty it and bring it up to standard.
Another interesting part to this problem is that there are probably 10 or so chinese ships delivering oil cargo to Australia at any one time, not necessarily from China but from all over. Chinese ships with Chinese crew and a CCP representative on board each one. If things get bad they could be ordered to turn around and head to China leaving us even more stranded.
We have had no Australian manned or owned products or crude tankers for well over 10 years now leaving us extremely vulnerable to the whims of other countries that we entrust our vital supply lines with.
Even if we owned or chartered our own vessels here with Australian crews it would take years to restore the experience and qualifications required to run tankers safely.
At the same time we destroyed our refining and storage capacity we also destroyed our ability to move oil ourselves…. Well done to both sides of politics.
Albo’s strategic fleet appears to be dead in the water, seems it was just a ploy to get the maritime unions on side, with the thumping they gave the coalition they couldn’t care less about the industry and its ability to deliver vital supplies around the country.
Hopefully this triggers a major rethink for the country and it’s resources in general. Won’t hold my breath though.
Imagine the EV, Solar and Battery government rebates if we taxed Gas exports 🤡
Big bad China at it again, this time disrupting the worlds oil supplies