Australia’s Fuels Dependence Turns Into a Crisis
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Australias-Fuels-Dependence-Turns-Into-a-Crisis.html
Australia’s Fuels Dependence Turns Into a Crisis
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Australias-Fuels-Dependence-Turns-Into-a-Crisis.html
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If only we had some kind of alternative energy source available to us.
More sunshine than any other continent on earth but foolishly has been late to the party old building solar charging capacity and encouraging EV’s.
Whoops!
Long term mismanagement. These pollies are too busy worrying about their kick backs and mates portfolios. The citizens are on priority way down that list.
Lessons learnt from Covid, Zero. Our country is riddled with Dutch disease.
At this point of time ‘she’ll be alright’ is a terminal disease that stops us from doing anything proactive
And Ukraine just now took out 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/least-40-russias-oil-export-capacity-halted-reuters-calculations-show-2026-03-25/
It’s not really a crisis. Like in any crisis, australia is well placed like any wealthy western country, to just buy our way out of it.
That’s what happened with covid vaccines and the same will happen here.
It’s countries like the Philippines that’ll be truly screwed.
Noone saw this coming….
Scott morrison “Theyre going to take your tradie utes ” forgot about storing more petrol years ago and putting in ev infrastructure
Crazy, 7 x Esso offshore oil platforms decommissioned in 2023 – 2025, Mobil Altona closed down, Port Stanvac decommisioned, Longreach decommissioned. Australia could so easily have been a massive global energy generator – with massive domestic supply. So lucky the government didn’t decide to close Ampol Lytton in 2022!
I am not from Australia but I live here, have always been so confused why the government has been so adamant on destroying their own oil sector. Can someone help me understand? What am i missing. Also – Roxy downs has one of the largest uranium deposits in world – if not the biggest? I am pretty sure SMR’s have been streamlined internationally now to the point where it’s alot cheaper to construct a small modular reactor for clean nuclear power? Doesn’t 1 tennis ball size clump of uranium generate the same amount of Energy as 1 million litres of diesel?
Who thinks we’ll actually run out of diesel?, are we looking at another covid like shutdown of the country?. Also if we do run out of fuel how is everyone going to feed themselves when the trucks stop delivering food?. I’ve got means to keep me and mine fed but most people would starve, it’s kind of worrying. Especially if you live in a flat, you don’t even have any space to grow food…
Yeah but renewables are “woke” because angry man on internet told me so.
And we will learn…. Wait for it….. nothing.
Wonder where we’d be if we voted in Shorten. Good 7 or so years of renewable infra progress lost because of the coalition.
We’re reaping the consequences of that right now
I don’t need praise but i’ve stopped using the 4wd and started walking where and when i can. My tank is down to under half and i might last another 3 weeks at this rate so others can get the fuel they need.
So, is it a good time to buy a horse now?
Same shit we do with all our resources we export the raw materials then import back the refined high value versions of them rather than doing it locally. Oil, Iron Ore etc
The latest propaganda thrown in by the lobby is the ‘maintenance costs’ of ev’s. Remember folks you do not need to get ‘EV’ special tyres. Just get a good quality set it’ll be just as good.
When Donald Horne coined the term “The Lucky Country”, he meant it as a wake up call.
Unfortunately, because our leaders were, and are, very much second rate they decided instead to take it literally and wear it as a national badge of honour.
Until we get past the “lucky country” attitude, we will never get better.
We don’t have a fuel crisis we have a lack of foresight in our leadership crisis and we have done for decades. Australia is huge, non fossil fuel infrastructure is extremely limited and electric cars are still expensive in comparison to a $2000 shitbox that many can actually stretch the budget to afford.
You could also add in Australian citizens lack of foresight, our government recommends all households have 14 days of supplies prepared for an emergency but hardly anyone who can afford to do so does (hence the stripping of supermarkets, servo’s etc) people buy house‘s in flood zones and then complain when insurance refuses to pay out etc etc. In general we have become a bunch of whiney out of touch idiots instead of preparers and do-ers
we have more magic water boiling rocks than most others and yet here we are
FUCCCCCK WE ARE SO BACKWARDS!!!!
Yet the LNP is still trying to nobble renewables.
Ah yes, renowned organisation I reed every week. Oilprice.
Wait, no. Who are these people? In this day and age, I’m not reading slop from people I’ve not heard of.
Funnily enough I have been looking more into Electric Vans for my business, and I would happily purchase one if there was a bit more infrastructure and backing from the GOV, until then I’m on the fence. And as a tradie who cannot work from home, I would LOVE it for the people that can! Less traffic for me, lower fuel prices if I cant get an EV.
It baffles me that the GOV is dragging their feet on implementing some kind of simple measures early on to avoid taking drastic measures later.
Will we be making biodiesel in Australia? Do we have the facilities to do it?
Bite the bullet and turn all public transport into electric. All of it. The fuel saving will pay for it and electric buses are so quiet.
We can be our own worst enemy at times and this highlights it.
That’s OK we don’t need to change anything. This is a one-off, global stability is only going to improve in the future.