Politicians and media can’t imagine a fossil-fuel free world – and it’s holding Australians back from huge EV savings
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/australia-fossil-fuels-politics-electric-vehicle-savings-clean-energy
Politicians and media can’t imagine a fossil-fuel free world – and it’s holding Australians back from huge EV savings
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/australia-fossil-fuels-politics-electric-vehicle-savings-clean-energy
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The money lining their pockets stops them from imagining it I’d wager
If they didn’t have shares in energy companies this would be a no brainer.
BYD factory fire holding back EV’s
I see that everytime someone want to fix or budget constraints by taxing methane gas.
It is completely delusional that we would make the federal budget balance dependent on nature gas extraction and sale, and that this would reduce global warming.
They can’t imagine being on the board of a renewables company.
The Liberal party has held us back so far in this country, while other countries run ahead of us. Crazy.
Why both sides this argument ?
The Liberal Party and the Nationals are the luddites who have held us back from renewables and electrification for 20 years.
All their piss and wind has cost the country billions.
“Their coming for your Utes”, screamed maniacally by Michaelia Cash whilst boofhead Morrison nods approvingly is a moment of national shame.
Its not like this at all.
The media are owned by billionaires that own oil, gas and coal. Murdochs own oil and gas. Stokes owns gas. Gina owns gas and coal. They fund the IPA and The Atlas Network. They Atlas Network owns globally significant bot farms. The IPA controls the media propaganda They tell the media what to feed us on a given day. The 2 work side by side in public media – online, print, radio and broadcast to feed you “words” and topics.
The media are trying to stop more than just renewables.
They keep the focus on the LNP. If something happens you will almost always get to hear the LNP side of the story – but not anyone else’s.
They refuse to entertain left political parties at all – have you read anything from the Greens lately? no
They control the topics to “Street gangs, ebikes, Bowens fuel crisis, Jacinta did something, Labor bad, debt bad (unless its Scommo), climate change is rah rah rah rah, machete bins lol lol lol lol lol, Unions CFMEU had a BBQ at work OMG no!!!”.
They won’t tell you BYD are cleaning up the market. They won’t let you know that the Philipines and Vietnam have no public buses as they ran out of fuel 8 days ago.
They don’t want you knowing
Kerry stokes has it in for Vic labor because Dan and Jacinta banned new gas connections on new estates. Jacinta and Labor in Vic can’t even use a fork upside down without a 7 news or 3AW monologue on why that’s bad
I noticed part of the problem is xenophobia. I know some EU migrants here that love to own ev for financial and environmental reasons. But they refuse to get them because the choices are either musk cars or Chinese cars (the good ones anyways).
They barely are on social media. They keep saying they’re waiting for cheap EU owned EVs that’s good enough. I guess they’ll wait for another 10 years until a 30k ev by an EU brand is shipped to the market. Even then, the competition would be too fierce….
Can someone please explain to me why we are subsiding the mining industry? Aren’t these operations highly profitable?
It’s all about jobs.
We may not like miners and FIFO trades earning $170k++ / year.
But where will they work, and how can they try to manage their quality of life? Reskilling efforts tough at that education level to find something equivalent salary wise.
And whether we agree or not, they have equal votes and voices to us.
(See Canada’s failure to re-deploy coal miners)
Diesel fuel tariffs are supposedly to subsidise road building and maintenance. The diesel fuel rebate is applied for fuel used not on public roads. Farmers are obviously beneficiaries of this as most of the fuel they use is in agriculture. The vast majority of fuels miners use is for machines not operating on public roads.
If the govt removes that rebate, then it has to admit that revenue raised through the tax is not for road building.
Weird. The rest of us who aren’t being paid not to can.
The fact is the PM is not travelling to Singapore and Malaysia etc to secure more EVs.
Iran and the US are not blocking the Strait of Hormuz preventing wind and solar energy.
Like it or not the world still runs on fossil fuels.
They can imagine it. Unfortunately, the people who will lose out have a lot of money and influence.
Media and politicians are controlled by older Australians.
They won’t be around to see the effects of climate change and they as a group have more than enough money to pay for petrol ( it’s the young workers that really feel the punishing costs of fuel ) so it’s not really a priority issue for them.