Maybe our government should have that in mind a bit more often.
Vegetable-Advance982 on
This would be true, if we didn’t export a ton of LNG and coal which are critically important to the biggest suppliers of our refined petrol. We have a bargaining chip and if someone stopped petrol reaching us their electricity generation would go out the window.
This cartoon reads like a Twitter conservative account that wants to pretend we’re the worst managed country in the world, and it just happens to be because Labor is in power.
FreddyFerdiland on
we could stop the coal leaving Newcastle if we dont get what we want..
Calcifini on
Maybe our friendly and cooperative relations with our Asia-Pacific trading partners is a good thing to have and worth maintaining for times exactly like this.
Apart_Watercress_976 on
Well that applies to most imports in most countries.
The “having to import” part is the problem. Unless the cartoonist is suggesting the Navy go privateer some oil tankers…?
HydroCannonBoom on
I mean no shit? Like where the fuck do you think countries that doesn’t produce their own oil, get their fuel from?
Ok_Bird705 on
People talking about sovereignty with fuel. But even if we had the refineries open (and hence provide billions in subsidies to keep them open), wouldn’t we still have problems since we sourced our raw crude oil from overseas, meaning we would still have problems keeping up with supply if there was a global oil shock.
GimmeSweetSweetKarma on
Yeah, just like we decide on who gets our agricultural and mineral products… unless the cartoonists is suggesting that anyone that asks gets our uranium.
Doobie_hunter46 on
You all want free market capitalism until suddenly it doesn’t work for you hey.
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The cartoonist is Matt Golding – see him on bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Plant a tree.. something something .. shade.
Maybe our government should have that in mind a bit more often.
This would be true, if we didn’t export a ton of LNG and coal which are critically important to the biggest suppliers of our refined petrol. We have a bargaining chip and if someone stopped petrol reaching us their electricity generation would go out the window.
This cartoon reads like a Twitter conservative account that wants to pretend we’re the worst managed country in the world, and it just happens to be because Labor is in power.
we could stop the coal leaving Newcastle if we dont get what we want..
Maybe our friendly and cooperative relations with our Asia-Pacific trading partners is a good thing to have and worth maintaining for times exactly like this.
Well that applies to most imports in most countries.
The “having to import” part is the problem. Unless the cartoonist is suggesting the Navy go privateer some oil tankers…?
I mean no shit? Like where the fuck do you think countries that doesn’t produce their own oil, get their fuel from?
People talking about sovereignty with fuel. But even if we had the refineries open (and hence provide billions in subsidies to keep them open), wouldn’t we still have problems since we sourced our raw crude oil from overseas, meaning we would still have problems keeping up with supply if there was a global oil shock.
Yeah, just like we decide on who gets our agricultural and mineral products… unless the cartoonists is suggesting that anyone that asks gets our uranium.
You all want free market capitalism until suddenly it doesn’t work for you hey.