By Jo Nova
Two trendlines and the climate distraction converged
Just before Easter, the Page Research Centre put out a policy paper that ought to rivet Australians.
We have so casually sleepwalked (sprinted) blindfolded to the edge of cliff. Twenty years ago we were self-sufficient in liquid fuels, then we got distracted trying to change the rain and clouds in 2100 AD. Meanwhile in 2013, the area of South East Asia under the potential control of China was starting to grow rapidly. It is only now, after we have closed 6 of 8 refineries, banned oil exploration and shale use in some states in an Ode to Gaia, but we find that at a moment’s notice, China could potentially put three quarters of our liquid fuel supply under threat.
“In an Asian war scenario, 76% of our liquid fuel requirements would be in immediate jeopardy.”
The situation in 2013 regarding China’s ability to control supply lines:
China’s area of denial capacity 2013
But the world is a different place in 2026:
China’s area of denial capacity 2025
How rapidly we ran towards the pit, closing refineries, assuming it didn’t matter even after China had been dishonest about and leaked a bioweapon, revealing a hostile intent, or at best a callous indifference to our health and welfare.
Figure 10 – Australian domestic liquid fuel demand and supply
Remarkably, we don’t use much more petrol than we did 50 years ago. But staggeringly we use nearly five times as much diesel.
Figure 13 – Comparison of Australian Consumption of major petroleum products in 1975 and 2025 | Page Research Centre
We are a diesel nation that would grind to a halt in days if the ships stopped arriving.
The two authors of the Page Research Report, Gerard Holland and Jude Blik, lay bare the four options we have, three of which aren’t much use:
1. Diversify our sources — (Good for peace-time, but likely to fall in a whole once a war breaks out).
When war breaks out everything changes. Right now, 800 ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf which is about 10% of the official global cargo fleet, not delivering anything to anyone. When 20% of the world is short of oil, no one wants to give it up, so most countries are suddenly competing in the same diversity game.
A disruption anywhere in the global oil chain can change the direction of every ship that we don’t control, and we control none, not a single ship. The Australian merchant fleet is zero. With an acerbic wit, they ask the core question that both sides of government forgot to ask:
“Given the current reserve requirement is 30 days, do we intend to maintain sovereignty and economic function for longer than a month?”
ie. Would you like to still be a country in 30 days?
And as they point out, our fuel stocks are public information, and any malign actor could easily use this vulnerability to extort our submission. Indeed, we are encouraging them to do exactly that:
…an adversary can tailor a naval capability around cutting off our seaborne supplies, knowing that at some certain future point (determined by our reserves, which are publicly known) Australia would be economically crippled. This allows considerable leverage to intimidate us short of conflict breaking out, since their ability to impose catastrophic pain is so clear. This further encourages an opponent to develop such a capability, since the pay-off is clear. With only 30 days of reserves, and near-total dependence on imports, successfully sinking a single convoy would bring us to our knees. Honing the ability to do this has clear returns for an adversary.
2. Increasing our 30 day fuel reserves is a band-aid:
Australia’s pitiful reserves are embarrassing, but we must not be distracted thinking that making them 60 days or 90 days is “the answer”.
Increasing our reserves just makes the bridge-to-nowhere a bit longer if we have no destination — that is, no way to restore our ongoing supply. We are still in danger of falling off the cliff. No matter how long our reserves are, the question that matters is how we ensure our fuel supply in a crisis? Security only comes from self sufficiency.
3. Demand Reduction: “Pretend we don’t need oil”
Painless demand reduction is an illusion. There are no easy efficiency gains left. We use barely any more petrol now than we did in 1976 (See figure 13), even though the national car fleet has increased from 6 million to 20 million vehicles. As the Page Research team note, even during the pandemic lockdowns, with all the pain that brought, we only saw a 20% reduction in total fuel use.
Even if we all caught the bus to school, work, shopping and soccer, (if that were even possible) passenger vehicles only consume 30% of the total liquid fuel demand. And miners and farmers don’t take their 130 ton Haul Trucks, or Combine Harvesters on frivolous trips to the corner store that they can easily do on a bike.
4. Produce oil ourselves
If a real war breaks out, the only protection comes from domestic production. We can drill, baby drill for oil and shale, perhaps even approve some fields in less than seven years, but there’s no time to waste.
We can also store large reserves of crude oil like the US does in salt caverns. Crude oil needs refining, so we’d need to build-back a refinery or two, but it has a long expiry date. And then there’s the biggie — we can convert our coal into liquid fuel. Something that China is doing at the astonishing rate of 380 million tons a year.
Maybe, if we can tame the Maritime Workers Union, the island continent could even afford to own a merchant ship?
There is so much more to say…
Thanks to Aidan Morrison for pointing me at this report, and Vic in Perth.
REFERENCE
Gerard Holland and Jude Blik (2026) All at Sea: Fuel, War, and Australia’s Achilles’ Heel, Page Research Centre. PDF.
That’s sure as hell make our Olympics build an uncomfortable dream. I’m a Civil Contractor (doesn’t mean I’m polite) in Brisbane. The slow down in enquiry since the beginning of March is stark. Job size is being cut, jobs postponed, Head Contractors are finding any reason to delay/stop payment. Thankfully we have a really good job running which will keep me going to end May and the Client’s an excellent payer.
I find myself wondering how many of us will be left at the end of this. Margins have been squeezed for years, and a lot of us will hit the wall soon, I imagine plenty are currently insolvent and praying. Fixed price contracts, poorly allocated risk, many small Subbies are in their Death Throes.
Thankfully I have almost zero debt and am very tightly run, I will be ok. But for those around me I grieve.
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Same situation in Sydney Tom
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Been there several times. Out of pocket due to being too far down the chain. So down the chain we went. Good article. This country needs to gear up seriously – become energy independent and strive for efficiencies and increased productivity. Where are our leaders who have such convictions? I know of some, but for God’s sake Albanese and company have to go. Some people may disagree, but I look at Russia and see how it has prospered since the fall of communism. It shames us, with infrastructure and consumer goods reforming the life of a traditionally poor country.
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Every grid scale wind and solar farm was a nail in the coffin of Australia’s industrial economy. They are all now stranded assets and will not be replaced.
Even if Federal Labor were to hang on for one more term because there are enough stupid people and income dependents to vote for them, it will be their last.
Labor in Victoria have ministers departing already. They can see the mess they have created. One Nation is already the highest polling party in Victoria. They may well have better than 50% of voters by the time the election comes about. Even the wealthy dependents sucking off Labor largesse can see the horror unfolding as crime rises with more desperate people trying to survive how ever they can.
I have a friend who left Melbourne to retire in Queensland. They sold up in Victoria 5 years ago and moved north. They have since doubled their net worth through good property purchases and riding the wave in Queensland.
So Queensland is better placed than Victoria. Crime already falling. Some love for carbon – the black variety and now banging heads with Federal Labor for clear road to develop oil resources.
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” Now banging heads with Federal Labor for clear road to develop oil resources.”
Just watch the Fed clowns put every roadblock they can in the way of QLD getting ahead.
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America was where you are in October 2008
During 2008, Obama said every day in his campaign speeches before the November 2008 election that, “We can’t drill our way out of this.”
In that month of October 2008 the US produced 3,974,000 barrels a day. We had not been that low since 1943. The Democrats hated and still hate oil and gas and are as stupid as Australia’s and Europe’s Leftist politicians.
October 2025, 17 years after Communist, Jihadist Obama said we couldn’t drill our way out of this – we in fact did: 13,864,000 barrels a day. We are now the largest oil producer in the world and it is not even close.
In addition we have gone from 21 trillion cu ft of natural gas a year to 43 trillion cu ft and we are now the world’s largest exporter of LNG. We are now the world leader in Natural Gas production, producing 50% more a year than 2nd place Russia.
All of this just in time when AI and Data Centers need electricity in the race to AI Supremecy with Communist China. That was lucky.
It can be done.
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Aa I said in the Tuesday thread, Australia is “energy rich” in name only.
In effect, as a practical experience for non-Elite Australians, we are energy poor. By design of course.
The fantasy of running a modern, formerly industrial nation like Australia on wind, solar and unicorn flatulence and the pronouncements of profoundly ignorant Leftist politicians, “academics” and their slave army of useful idiots needs to be immediately terminated.
Let’s “drill, baby drill” and do whatever else is needed to secure and liberate Australia’s coal, gas, oil and nuclear energy supply and hydro where possible.
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Yet Minister for Energy Bowen is in complete denial and how ridiculous is he talking up electrification when the Prime Minister is putting on a show travelling claiming to be securing fuel supplies from long established fuel supply countries that are also export customers for Australian energy products and other exports talking as if fossil fuel is important, as it is.
The transition away from fossil fuels based on first Renewable Energy Target and 2021 net zero emissions nonsense.
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Bowen’s electrification dream is an adversary’s wet dream. They could merely sit and wait for the arrival of a period of overcast weather in the midst of a wind drought before cutting off Australia’s liquid fuel supplies.
Even Search Assist on DuckDuckGo (presumably AI) realises wind is not dependable:
It doesn’t take much to tip over a Paper Tiger…
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Two vital considerations missing
1. Economics
2. Engineering
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The rest of the world is rich in our cheap energy while at home here, we are short of coal, gas and oil.
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Those who put Australia into this mess must not be allowed to escape punishment, assuming that is legally possible. At the very least, they must be subject to public ridicule.
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Australia has not simply woken up, Australia now knows what it’s like to be kicked mercilessly out of bed & woken with two black eyes!!
The beating has only just started!! Get used to it!!
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Graham, I cannot see morale improving, no matter how long the beatings continue!
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The Karrick process is a low-temperature carbonisation and pyrolysis process of carbonaceous materials. Although primarily meant for coal it also could be used for processing of oil shale or lignite or any carbonaceous materials. These are heated at 450 °C (800 °F) to 700 °C (1,300 °F) in the absence of air to distill out synthetic fuels. In Australia, during World War II the Karrick process plants were used for shale oil extraction in New South Wales
The Fischer–Tropsch process (FT) is converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons. These reactions occur in the presence of metal catalysts, typically at temperatures of 150–300 °C and pressures of one to several tens of atmospheres.
Based on the pioneering work of Sasol in South Africa using gasification to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, an entire slate of downstream chemicals and fuels can manufactured.
Fischer-Tropsch using high-temperature iron-based catalysts yields a wide array of short-chain paraffins, olefins, and aromatics. Low-temperature cobalt-based catalysts produce a majority of longer-chain n-paraffin species, mainly as liquids and waxes. Most of the alkanes produced tend to be straight-chain, suitable as diesel fuels. The short-chain hydrocarbons were upgraded to liquid fuels over solid acid catalysts, such as zeolites.
The Bergius process is a method of production of liquid hydrocarbons for use as synthetic fuel by hydrogenation of high-volatile containing bituminous coal. at high temperature and pressure. The coal is finely ground and dried in a stream of hot gas. The dry product is mixed with heavy oil recycled from the process.
This was the primary source of synthetic diesel used in Germany from before and during WW2.
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Does anybody else remember “Town Gas / Coal Gas” that was in common use in cities until the 1970s>
It was a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal quantities by volume>
It was derived from COAL by the simple expedient of heating the coal in “ovens” consisted of a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in roughly equal quantities.
The “ovens” controlled the amount of oxygen (air) passing over the coal during heating. Hence the toxic, potentially explosive brew piped out to the punters, for lighting and heating, in the “good old days”.
Petroleum gas replaced “Town Gas; being somewhat less toxic AND CHEAPER.The replacement of wood and coal as “domestic” fuels greatly contributed to cleaner city air.
HOWEVER, it was the serious adoption of ELECTRICITY that made the greatest contribution to clean air, and the eco-nazi Luddites seem to HATE the stuff, even as they use it to distribute they own toxic sludge. Those “people’ also are big fans of a different sort of “Gas-lighting”.
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Our old bath hot water was a wood chip one, then we got a gas type with the pilot light. Instant heat !
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ah yes. Braemar…..
no large chunks of wood allowed
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Never had one but putting a couple of bob in the gas meter was common.
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Reminiscing of the pre-CC days…
Back in the 1970s before the OPEC crisis, oil heaters were also very common. I remember the smell, which wasn’t unpleasant. In fact I used to go outside to enjoy the vapes in the early evening when people lit them up. We had a big Vulkan wall mounted unit and it would maintain our large house at tropical temperatures right through winter. Best invention ever 😉
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Solvents have been used for Enhance Oil Recovery in the US for a very long time.
They can be enhanced and used to extract oil from coal pores.
The solvents are then re-used and piped where needed.
In Texas there is 4,000km of solvent pipelines.
Solvents can also be used to separate oil by weight versus current refining.
Typical a solvent process involves large volumes of the Voldemort of gases,……., CO2.
This is why government is not freindly to using solvents.
Government almost everywhere is basically STUPID.
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“Government almost everywhere is basically STUPID.”
Too many Yartz/Law/Social “Science” graduates, employed in fields they do not comprehend.
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Too many people with no experience setting policy.
You can get 1.1 Barrels of oil from every raw ton of Gippsland lignite with only a 60% of possible recovery. This is the same oil as Esso/BHP’s Bass Strait from which Australia extracted 4 Billion barrels. There is already an oil pipeline to Geelong’s refinery, gas separation plant etc. 500 Billion barrels. That is US$25 TRILLION of profit before taxes just on the land.
Victoria the Garden State, we grow stupid here!
All I ask is that Singapore takes over Melbourne. Population is about the same. They already know we are the Trash of Asia. Who knows the elite in the CBD may not even notice.
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Never attribute to “stupidity”, that which is CLEARLY MALICE.
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Which countries use the Karrick, Bergius or other technologies today?
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South Africa (Sasol – Secunda): The world’s largest commercial CTL project, operated by Sasol, producing around 30% of South Africa’s diesel and gasoline needs.
China – Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: The Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group operates one of the world’s largest CTL projects, with a capacity of 4.05 million tonnes of oil products annually.
China – Inner Mongolia (Erdos): Operates a major direct coal liquefaction complex with a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day.
United States (North Dakota): The Dakota Gasification Company operates a plant, although it primarily focuses on coal gasification to produce natural gas rather than liquid fuel on a massive scale.
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Any one of these existing plants could begin using solvents. This would make their countries indepenednet of Middle Eastern oil.
I must assume their desired outcome would be that no-one else could use it and that they would want to control the world’s oil supply and hence the world. Megalomaniac seems to be the standard human model.
Fortunately it works on any organic with oil in pores, eg a plant, or oil in its structure, eg plastic or tyres.
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CTC and CTL in China are the third largest coal user in the world. They must know something we don’t.
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We have supine adherence to policies designed offshore.
The result reveals the intention.
Deindustrialisation, political centralisation, and glorification of waste have been the constant theme for decades. There is no left/right – forget your out-of-date allegiances.
Fraser was right to shed tears that fateful night, staring into the abyss of national immiseration.
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As one of out great exports, Clive James, noted:
“The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers.”
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Rum currency Colony of New South Wales
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It could be said that we are the Spanish of the Southern hemisphere – if you know what I mean! Horne was correct in his observations. Further, we were very controlled, with strict morality codes and many other restrictions. We are largely compliant and non enquiring.
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Nowadays, Oz seems more like a LACKEY country.
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Back in 2005 I read ‘Twilight in the Desert’ by the now late Matthew R Simmons an oilman/analyst who woke me up to this current situation. Whilst it was an in depth view of the fields in Saudi – especially the super giants known as Ghawar and Saffinayeh – it did provide a concerning prognosis for the long term. I then later read the ‘Race for what’s left’ by Michael T Klare a professor who specialises in energy analysis. Both books cemented my view that we were bound to have the experience we are now enduring, as choking is the name of the game with malign actors.
And with Ping a ‘Megalomaniac’ who is equally as crazy as Rocket Man, it is time we did something about ignoring the other crazies known as the Climate Chang Brigade and get on with on-shore production and refinery. We also need a shipping industry crewed with Aussies similar to the Jones Act in the US and get rid of the just in time mentality.
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Twighlight Of Abundance
David Archibald
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David Archibald is correct Dennis; but even though scarcity was a concern then, there was, and still is, disputation about Exclusive Economic Zones EEZ’s and choke points.
You may or may not be aware about the huge Chinese flotilla of fishing vessels that practice lining up from north of Taiwan toward Okinawa which might be practice for a coming invasion; and as Ping does not care about the lives of his population – I would not be surprised if the flotilla of disposable fishermen was used to block or impede the Japanese Navy in the event of an attempt at invasion of Taiwan.
If you look at Kyle Bass’s X account, you will see what he has to say, as he keeps a close eye on the CCP and tweets on that madman. Bass is a long term critic of the CCP.
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Thanks again Jo Nova for trying to wake us up and thanks to Aidan, Gerard and Jude for their work.
We’ve no time left to fix our toxic mess but we must start today to try and educate our left wing donkeys about our perilous position in the world.
Without a plentiful supply of fossil fuels we are doomed and we must try to have our own oil supply ASAP. Coal is critical now and we should be trying to quickly convert our coal to oil and find and drill for more oil as well.
Unfortunately, we have the most delusional and stupid governments in our history and B O Bowen is their clueless energy minister.
But unless we have energy security we will never have national security. Yet will the voters ever wake up in time?
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I dont think they are delusional and stupid, that is being too generous, they know what they are doing and its been going for decades. Download a copy of the Lima Accords from way back and read them and you can see they told you all the way. The intention has been to get rid of national security. There is a word for that we dont use around here. The voters don’t control anything really, if 30% of the vote is what is needed to get a majority of seats then the system is busted.
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It seems that when Lima Protocol signed by Whitlam Labor Governmemt 1975 and then Agenda 21 Sustainability signed by Keating Labor Government 1992 are mentioned many people ignore it or criticise
And that Lima and other UN agreements and agendas are from which the businessman Donald Trump began a crusade against it and the UN.
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Preferential voting in Australia means voters rank candidates in order of preference, and votes are redistributed until one candidate has over 50% of the vote. This system ensures every vote counts, even if your first choice doesn’t win.
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Dennis. I like it, but;
1 It exposes the sad, unpleasant, truth that more than 50% want a left, woke, socialist government, and or
2 An alarming lot of voters don’t know what they are doing.
Doug
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Just to tune it further, make it optional.
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Permit three or more choices in ranked order.
The blank entries do not count….
The “winner” still needs 50%+1
No winner? Do it over. Parties/Candidates with less than 2% of primary vote eliminated. Names in the over 2% slots can be changed.
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Electing the LEAST LOATHED?
That will probablyNOT end well.
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Even Matt Ridley thinks the CC parrot is almost dead and lets hope he is correct.
Here’s his talk at the Clintel group.
https://clintel.org/matt-ridley-thinks-the-climate-parrot-is-almost-dead/
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From that link there was this from Andy May, excellent temperature graph.
https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2026/02/04/holocene-warming/
Grok should be aware of paleo climate history, but lacks the imagination to see outside the consensus bubble.
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Attempts to discuss with AI result in it ceding to authority. Science is science stuff. Even posts MBH 99 as evidence.
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There are different ways of seeing reality, archaeology provides evidence supporting the theory that CO2 cannot warm the planet
https://notrickszone.com/2026/04/13/cave-discovery-reveals-todays-desert-climates-were-recently-far-warmer-wetter-teeming-with-life/
AI is worthless at the moment, but eventually it should come good.
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AI is worthless at the moment, but eventually it should come good.
A bit optimistic I think.
Especially since political control is only just being “considered”
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“AI” is all about exploiting Natural Stupidity.
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I’ve been saying its a trap for years. No one listened. I said the war in Ukraine was a bad idea … because its part of the trap. No one listened. I said the attack on Iran was a very bad idea. No one listened. We now have about a fortnight before economic essentials start running out.
It was never about climate. Climate was just the way to lure the west into this trap.
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But see # 15 on Tuesday thread
Seems almost all the oil that used to go through the strait is now diverted
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It’s beyond my pay grade but how much can the US boost oil production in the short term to meet demand?
They are the largest producer [misquoted as being the largest exporter] but they are still confined by physics and economics. I have believed that the only way to increase production is to sink a new well. That can’t be done by Monday.
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The plan is long term. We in the west are conditioned to think about the short term, which is why most people can’t see the plan slowly developing. For example the main intention of the Ukraine war was to divert Russian trade with Europe to other Brics countries, and give the EU and US the blame. That’s why it keeps going on, the longer the war goes on, the more the EU will have cut off its own nose to spite its face and the more Putin grows inter-brics trade.
As the US has a habit of doing exactly what Russia wanted, I am now tempted to think the blockade is exactly what Putin and Xi wanted. Certainly it is damaging to the EU. Certainly it is damaging to those holding US currency reserves. And, as Iran and Russia have demonstrated … it is no longer safe to hold US currency reserves. Which again was their intention. To destroy the concept of the dollar as a “safe” haven for wealth.
What Brics do not want is an uncontrolled decline of the US, thus they don’t want a “western timescale” decline in the dollar. Instead, they have planned a much slower and longer term decline on their longer timescales.
To use an analogy. Western politics is all short termism “weather”. It all about the storm today, the hurricane tomorrow. Brics strategy operates on a timescale equivalent to “climate”. It is the slow changes that those observing the weather cannot see … they cannot see the woods for the trees.
As such, actions that appear insane to western strategists who focus only on the short term “wars” can look insane, but they are being done against a long term plan that is hidden in the short “camouflage” of events and thus not part of the focus of the west.
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We have a information/media problem in which non official sources are refuted or banned. There is always something more to the eye and most can’t access it – even if they want to.
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Australia is yet to make peace with carbon. It is pointless drilling for oil if users are taxed out of existence for using it. And then there is the cost of processing it. This relies on low cost electricity that comes from burning lignite from the Latrobe Valley.
Only One Nation has declared peace with carbon. LNP do not want to touch that because they are sitting on the fence.
Australia is doomed to a third world economy if carbon is not embraced and cherished.
The quickest way out of the mire of de-industrialisation is to drop all UN inspired carbon costs and run existing coal plants consistently at their minimum unit cost rate. That will be close to 100% of rating all the time. It is an economic crime to be cycling these massive furnaces in tune to wind and sun.
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I was asked about LPG/CNG and replied that using those options instead of petrol or as a duel fuel combination and why it stopped being popular.
The Howard Government introduced a conversion incentive system for mainly LPG pointing out it is a by product and what is not sold is burnt off to atmosphere and wasted, after 2007 Rudd Labor stopped the conversion scheme and raised the tax on LPG.
Earlier GM Holden and Ford had offered their vehicles with factory installed dedicated LPG only fuel on car, wagon and utility versions.
Diesel-Gas conversions followed for diesel engines in vehicles or stationary (generators for example, CNG for marine diesel engines not necessarily combined fuels), the early systems were fumigation and not well controlled but later injected gas systems were very good. Using a mix of diesel and gas typically a 3 litre engine would gain more energy per litre of diesel and produce lower emissions with a gain resulting of around 20% more power and torque.
Gas and Biodiesel also worked of course.
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Lots of chatter on the fake news around a ‘boom in sales’ of second hand b.v.’s. One of my sons purchased a used Holden station wagon with a dedicated l.p.g. engine on the weekend. These things are currently highly sought after but he was able to buy it for less than $5k. His v8 diesel Land Cruiser was a little thirsty for comfort at today’s fuel prices.
He may hang on to it when the dust has finally settled, but re-sale will be no problem, I think. Better value than a Chinese toy battery car and capable of towing as well.
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During the recession Labor created after deregulation of the banking and finance industry, floating the Australian Dollar and not establishing a dedicated government industry watchdog department from 1985, Howard did in 1998 establishing APRA – Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, I was MD of a medium size by Australian standard manufacturing company with branch warehouses and offices nationwide and some overseas, the Australian company car fleet as vehicles were replaced had LPG dual fuel conversions (also forklift trucks and factory heating using LPG) and the motor vehicle running cost reduced significantly.
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LPG is a byproduct of crude refining, so subject to the same scarcity as petrol and diesel, also fuel companies are ripping out the gas infrastructure as fast as they can.
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But CNG is not….and we are floating on a sea of it !👍👍
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There was a time virtually every taxi in Australia ran on LPG.
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LPG taxis only became redundant when Ford / Holden stopped making LPG options available and the Toyota hybrid Camry became an economic replacement.
LPG/CNG is the obvious choice as a fuel substute for petrol and diesel transport..
It is a proven technology, relatively cheap and easy to convert, and huge resources under our feet. CNG can even be refueled at home using a domestic gas supply (even cheaper) and a small gas compressor installed on a wall.
Conversion subsidies should never have been stopped.
It could even be promoted as a carbon reduction initive !
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Chad,
Yes, because they should never have been introduced in the first place.
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Why would anyone want to do that. Humans need to love carbon. It holds our bodies together and keeps us warm when we burn it.
Carbon is the molecule of life. It is now obvious that more atmospheric carbon supports more life on Earth.
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To appease the CAGW crowd ?
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And vcity taxi cabs typically operated for one million kilometres or more, serviced well and engine never cold.
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I remember buying an XD Falcon Xpack with dual fuel and to cart four kids around, ripped the bucket seats out and installed a bench seat. The car had column shift auto and lasted until we gave it to our eldest son, who wrote it off six hours after obtaining his driver’s licence.
Those were the days (and cars).
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I think a lot of rot set in when the education system was dumbed-down and real science (and other subjects) failed to be taught, only Leftist post-modernist interpretations thereof.
Carbon is the basis of excellent, high energy density, portable fuels because it is abundant and relatively inexpensive, can store significant energy in chemical bonds it makes with other elements and compounds, and has wide versatility in chemical bonding allowing it to make a huge variety of compounds, including the compounds of life itself.
How many wokesters would even understand such things?
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Yesterday I watched Karl Stefanick’s the interview with Queensland Premier David Crisafulli. The premier’s frustration with the Federal government over oil drilling came through loud and clear. How about we conduct an experiment? Cut Queensland free from all forms of restrictive tapes, of all colours. Let Queensland drill for oil, and mine gas and uranium reserves, for Australian domestic use. Let it build new HELE coal-fired power stations. Let it build additional oil refineries, and create the necessary storage for their output. Let it exploit coal-to-oil conversion technologies. Let it curtail the insane deployment, and its environmental destruction, of wind and solar. Hell, even approve a nuclear-power plant, with training spinoffs for AUKUS! Let these efforts take place without any form of union, or federal government, involvement or interference. Then stand back and watch productivity soar, while the other states and territories look on with envy, and the federal government, and the unions, with humiliating embarrassment!
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Off grid Australia relies on diesel generators small and very large installations, fuel delivery is a major distribution logistics exercise, the answer is;
https://a7dffb77-e855-4fa6-bd37-0bc063cdb46e.filesusr.com/ugd/e63596_57f326cd401146e09580d9c4f2024f51.pdf
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Thanks for that, Dennis!
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It makes very good sense for Australia’s vast distances and remote towns, pastoral properties, mine sites, and so on
And nuclear enriched uranium content fuel rods are now recycled as the uranium for a power plant is far lower level than, say, weapons grade, and therefore can be recycled a number of times.
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I’ll buy one now.
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If you dig around, you can find some interesting details of the WW2 German nuclear programme.
Yes, it was REAL. They also shared materials and “information” with Tokyo.
Because of their expertise in electronics, the German Post Office became the “supervising” body, because they were at the pointy end of electronic research. Experimental reactor were built under schools and other ‘government” buildings, as well as isolated field stations..
Some of those early reactor “shells” still exist in Poland and south-eastern Germany. They were on the right track, including the use of Thorium,
They also “tested” non-critical runaway fission (“fizzles” as such events are known). And one of the areas this was done is STILL a closed military site. This was NOT to test an actual “Bomb” but to investigate the effect of the “pre-criticality” radiation pulse specifically on human tissue.
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Labor State of Victoria Government would not support a brown coal processing venture in the La Trove Valley Gippsland and the company has moved the venture to New Zealand where it has received government support;
https://latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/news/2026/04/01/diesel-can-come-from-coal-yet-state-government-wont-budge/
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Thanks Dennis and Sky News had the CEO of that company telling us about the challenge of trying to talk to the moronic Vic govt.
They’re beyond stupid and I wonder whether the Vic voters will have enough brains to throw them out at the end of this year.
I have my doubts, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
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It’s worse than that. The State Electricity Consitutiton is forbidden by the Victorian Constitution from developing any fossil fuel assets.
“Victoria has enshrined a permanent ban on fracking and coal seam gas exploration in its constitution, making it the first Australian state to do so. This action was finalized in March 2021 with the passage of the Constitution Amendment (Fracking Ban) Act 2021, designed to protect agricultural land and the environment.
The Constitution Amendment (SEC) Act 2024 (formerly the 2023 Bill), which received Royal Assent on October 22, 2024, formally embeds the State Electricity Commission (SEC) into the Victorian Constitution. A key, binding feature prohibits the revamped public SEC from owning, operating, or investing in any fossil fuel facilities, restricting its investments solely to renewable energy projects. ”
This is NOT sleepwalking. This is intentional destruction and impoverishment of a whole State in Australia as a foundational rule in our legal system. It was done with intent and malice.
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Labor have legislated roadblocks at Federal and State governmment levels to reinforced their transition away from fossil fuels.
We must have Coalition governments given House of Representatives and Senate majority pledging to remove the red green black tape restrictions and bans.
One Nation must cooperate as the Green have done for decades to cooperated with Union Labor governments.
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“passage of the Constitution Amendment (Fracking Ban) Act 2021, designed to protect agricultural land and the environment.”
And now the agricultural land is threatened by large scale solar and wind generators, and the new transmission lines needed to bring the unreliable and intermittent product to users in the large cities, who do not see the resulting environmental devastation.
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Aaaand.. right on cue (as if someone there reads Jo) Their ABC puts up an article “debunking four myths” about the fuel crisis, saying ” we don’t have any oil to exploit” and ” it’s too expensive anyway”
Typical.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-14/debunking-four-myths-around-australias-fuel-crisis/106558264
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It is THEIR ABCESS: what do you expect?
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It is worth remembering that the giant oil fields of the Middle East were unknown before about 1908. Their discovery was by William Knox D’Arcy, a Queensland solicitor, who became rich from his investments in the grand old gold/copper mine at Mount Morgan, west of Rockhampton. His dream was that oil was to be found in Persia. He went there and drilled, again and again. His success, after many fails, led to the formation of British Petroleum and to rapid growth of hydrocarbon energy bringing unforeseen wealth to many countries.
This is now lost in history. Instead of the World celebrating the place of gold mining in Australia and making a hero of D’Arcy, we have in charge an ungrateful mob who spend your taxes and mine to demonize oil, coal and gas for personal belief reasons.
US President Trump is working hard to come back to rationality in the management of global hydrocarbon fuels today. The simple beginnings from D’Arcy and B.P. have become so complicated and so lacking in historical attribution that the World has become a politico/religious mess being sorted by rather strong military aggression.
Australian politicians have failed again and again to learn from history. Thet placed many impediments in the path of hydrocarbon development – and are still creating more today. They are now actively engaged in placing more impediments, this time against nuclear powered electricity in Australia. Why are they so negative, when they could find such benefit from positive, enabling policies?
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/cor_history.pdf
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And the UK (under First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill) promptly switched from Welsh coal to Persian oil.
And a side note when the Queen Mary came to Sydney Harbour during the war (for transporting troops) the captain asked the Munitions Dept. whether they wanted to sweep the dust from the funnels ???? After advice from London they cleaned 5 tons of burnt residues which included about half a ton of vanadium (used for amour plating) and in short supply.
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Once the Albanese Government woke up to the implications for Australia of no transport fuel – which only took a week or so – its performative gymnastics have been extraordinary.
Obviously the ministerial duds have been out on display showing a complete lack of portfolio insight. If Bowen, Watts, or King are ever re-elected, we deserve all we get.
However the cherry on the turd cake has been Albanese’s desperate fluffing around Singapore, returning with a ‘Peace in out time’ agreement from PM, Lawrence Wong, advising that Singapore will keep selling refined products to Australia – (provided the necessary crude keeps arriving in Singapore).
This misses out on the fact that the Singapore Government is, as policy, ‘hands off’ from Singapore-based oil and products trading – which is run by heavyweight traders like Trafigura and Vitol (and our own little Ampol), and refiners like Shell and ExxonMobil.
Basically, our Prime Mollusc appears to have persuaded Singapore not to declare economic war on Australia and legislate to prevent private sector trade with us.
I did not know that was ever a risk.
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As the link at Tuesday # 15 says most of the oil that used to go via the strait has been re-directed.
If “Elbow” is still fluffing for oil then, while he was doing his “”Elbow Grands”, someone has nicked the share Oz used to get?
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Why not post it here where it is relevant to the current crisis?
“another ian
April 14, 2026 at 10:48 am · Reply · Edit
FWIW
“Donald Trump Pulls The Wabbit Season Trick On the Iranian Regime”
In there
“The myth of the Strait of Hormuz closure.
80% (16.25M bpd) of the 20M barrels per day supply of the Strait of Hormuz has already been replaced or been rerouted.
🇸🇦 7M: Saudi Reroute
📈 4.25M: Pre-War Surplus
🇨🇳 2M: China Safe-Passage
🇦🇪 1.5M: UAE ADCOP reroute
🇮🇷 1M: Iran Jask Bypass
🇮🇳 400k: India Safe-Passage
Deficit? Only 3.8M bpd and even just 2 more tankers per day would reduce the deficit to 0.”
https://x.com/thejbullmarket/status/2043266275749638565
More here
https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2026/04/13/donald-trumps-key-to-defeating-the-iranian-regime-treat-them-like-democrats-n3813827“
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The numbers don’t pan out that nicely. There is still a big deficit.
The flow through the Strait of H was 20 m BPD every day. And about 2.6 mBPD was also flowing through the Saudi pipe. Hence the extra new capacity of the pipe is not 7, but 4.4m BPD. And according to others it isn’t that high either, because the port infrastructure can’t cope. Plus burning through reserves is not “replacing supply”.
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From Parody Tommy Norris:
he Saudi reroute at 7 million barrels a day is the pipeline’s design capacity, not its effective export capacity. Aramco ships roughly 2 million barrels a day to its own Red Sea refineries before a single export barrel loads at Yanbu. And Yanbu’s port infrastructure was never sized to handle full pipeline throughput—because the planning assumption was that the pipe was a hedge, not a primary route. The ADCOP number of 1.5 million is the nameplate. Kpler had it running at 71% utilization before the crisis, with roughly 440,000 barrels a day of actual spare capacity—not 1.5 million barrels of replacement flow. You’re counting total capacity as if it’s all incremental. It’s not. Much of it was already flowing before the Strait closed.
The “pre-war surplus” of 4.25 million is the loosest number on the list. Global spare capacity before February was roughly 4-5 million barrels a day, most of it Saudi and UAE. But Saudi just told us 600,000 barrels a day of production is damaged and 300,000 is still offline at Khurais. You can’t count spare capacity from facilities that have been hit.
China and India’s strategic reserves buy time. They don’t replace flow. Drawing 1.8 billion barrels of combined reserves at a rate that covers a multi-million barrel daily deficit burns through in months, not years. And reserves are a one-way door—every barrel drawn is a barrel you have to replace later at whatever price the market dictates.
The deficit isn’t 3.8 million. It’s bigger, and it’s compounding every week.
And furthermore: “But the new additions need scrutiny.
3.3 million barrels a day from reserves. Where? The largest coordinated SPR release in history—2022—was about 1 million barrels a day, and it drained US reserves to 40-year lows. Who is releasing 3.3 million? The US doesn’t have the inventory. China and India aren’t going to drain their strategic reserves to subsidize global supply—they’re hoarding, not releasing. That number needs a source.
4.5 million barrels a day of increased global production. Pre-war spare capacity was roughly 4-5 million, but most of it sat in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Saudi just told us 300,000 barrels a day is still offline at Khurais. Qatar’s LNG infrastructure is damaged for years. You can’t count spare capacity from facilities that have been hit. And ramping production isn’t flipping a switch—it takes months, rigs, crews, and capital that’s still being deployed.
1.7 million in demand destruction is plausible. Prices this high do kill demand. But demand destruction isn’t a solution. It’s a euphemism for people and businesses who can no longer afford energy. That’s not the market balancing. That’s the economy shrinking.”
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Trump is happy about all the tankers heading to the us to fill up. This begs the Q: Can oil fields, either conventional or shale, increase production simply by opening the taps a bit more? Somehow I doubt it.
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Oil potential from the Taroom Trough appears to be a hot button issue for the Queensland Government – and an excited media describes it as an “underground lake of oil the size of Singapore”.
Without being a Debbie Downer here, the Taroom resource is shaping up as fairly marginal. The reservoir rocks are very deep – over 4,000m – and unsurprisingly productivity from the recent appraisal wells is low – maximum measured flow rates of ~400bbls/d. Worthwhile if production rates can be increased, but development will be difficult, expensive, and challenging.
Needless to say, the Commonwealth Government is contributing to this process by throwing grit and shade into the exploration and appraisal process. With Chrisafulli trying to move Federal road blocks, the relevant Ministerial peanuts have their mouths slackly open:
Resources Minister Madeleine King stressed projects would need to be carefully assessed to ensure they meet environmental laws.
“That order and thoughtfulness around approvals is really important so that the community can have confidence that when we do drill for oil or for gas, we make it safe for the community and the environment,” Ms King told the ABC.
Bravo. However Minister King seems to miss the point that drilling is regulated by the Queensland Government, not Canbra.
Environment Minister Murray Watt said he had not seen any proposal from the Queensland government, but was open to building Australia’s sovereign capability.
“We know from the experts that even if an oilfield like this was approved, you’re probably talking up to 10 years before it would start producing oil at any kind of commercial level,” he told Sky News on Wednesday.
“But again, we’re open to those ideas. We just need the Queensland Government to put something forward.”
In another interview, Mr Watt suggested Mr Crisafulli should be more “focused on how to help people with cost and supply of fuel now” rather than in a decade’s time.
Nicely highlighting that the Albanese Government’s focus is on applying OPM to economic problems, rather than productivity.
Top men.
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Well, it isn’t of course. Similarly, Malaysia and Brunei.
This is just Elbow grandstanding without his trousers on so the 33% of the populace that votes for the ALP stay that way, secure in the fiction that they’re being protected.
That the lefty MSM are simultaneously promoting the b/s that Aus doesn’t need to be/cannot be self-sufficient in liquid hydrocarbons is the telltale for panic at the likelihood of fuel rationing.
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I’m hoping that the current fuel and cost of living debacle will bring Australia’s revolving door lame duck uniparty governments to a decisive end. The current farce of a voting system where the preferences system is designed to keep the uniparty in power must be given the flick. Time for a big change. A party like One Nation, that truly represents Aussie values is our best hope. We need to take Australia back from the multicultists so that we can become proud Australians, under one flag, again.
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It’s not the voting system that is the issue, and it’s certainly not what preference voting is designed to do.
It’s the fact that people who run for office get too scared to run on principles and instead run to be elected.
Our two main parties used to be further apart in policy and principles. When one party is elected for a while the other party starts to think they need to be more like the other to get elected. Getting elected is their priority.
It’s also that the media attack anyone who stands on a principle that differs from the mainstream media preference. The media forces a conformity when politicians lack backbone and belief in their policies and principles. So we don’t get the diversity of options that we should, or not in a great enough number that’s needed for a viable third or fourth party option. Who wants to be subjected to the media labels and name calling that people like Pauline Hanson get? If not for her resilience we would be further embedded in a two party choice than we currently appear to be. It’s “only” taken 30 years of her putting up with the media rubbish and attacks from both parties that maybe we are getting a 3rd option. Maybe.
Nothing to do with the preferential voting system.
Look at places that have a first past the post system. Say UK, US, and Canada. It’s same there with two main parties.
UK now has reform coming in. Another example of resilience, like Hanson, from Farage who has been trying for years. A result of voter disenchantment with what the two main parties dish up. Not a factor of the voting system.
The US currently has a difference between Republicans and Democrats. Although there has been a largely similar uniform “swamp”. But currently has a disruptor from a non-politics background.
The preferential voting system might not be giving you the result you want. But that’s a symptom of where our politics has been and is at, vs what you desire. Not the system.
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There is no Uniparty, both 2PP sides have factions and Albanese Labor is far or hard left dominated, and controlled by the Unions (once referred to as the faceless men, now women too).
Liberal-National-LNP have a left flank faction that is more aligned with Labor centre left being the right of Labor, noting ALP Constitution refers to the democratic socialism party.
The main game since UN Lima Protocol signed by Labor 1975 and UN Agenda Labor signed 1992 has been glossed over by following events including Kyoto COP 1997 but earlier climate change manoeuvring.
With the notable exception of PM Turnbull terms late 2015 to late 2018 the Coalition has modified renewable energy transition as much as possible with due consideration for the Federation of States influence and laws/regulations reinforcing Labor Federal legislation.
PM Morrison did try to begin again as I have posted with links and to the 2020 statements
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Solution to enduring dud politicians of all stripes – stop paying the f8764%$#. I had an enlightening moment in my garden this morning – a flock of beautifully plumaged King parrots returned after a couple of weeks absence. They recognised me and settled on my arms to eat seed from my hands.
I mused on this for a short while and wondered where they’d been lately. Just like politicians, they arrived in their finest garb and took from me what they needed and then abandoned me when lured by someone else who would fulfil their requirements.
Stop the ego stroking of these reprobates who are unqualified to do anything useful in the real world and allow only those who have the desire to serve to occupy the seats in our ‘representative democracy’.
Make them do it for nothing – as DJT does, then we would sort the wheat from the chaff.
Retirement gives one the opportunty to ruminate on all sorts of crap.
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Don’t blame the system, get active at the branch level in a party and improve it. You will lose ON if you just sit back saying “We are saved”. Won’t work.
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We are well and truly up the proverbial creek without a paddle, in a leaky canoe, with crocs circling and a useless deadweight in the form of Albozo rocking the canoe dangerously.
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And someone called Blackout drilling holes in the canoe.
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No fix for our problems until the war starts….then still no fix….OZ has real problems…being a state of the U.S. the real..one.
See Martin Armstrong…socrates blog and private one…all free….and cry….then see Brian Berlitic on you tube latest…cry some more…..then panic….stick your head IN the sand…aaah peace…then KABOOOOOOM >LPG IS EASY AND CHEAP.
TIME TO END THE FEDERATION.
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That increase in diesel usage is quite amazing. Particularly when gasoline fuel volume stayed the same. Must be the uptake of diesel into sedans and utes over last 20 years. The fact that people in power either refused to acknowledge that simple fact or were ignorant is almost criminal. If anything we should have been increasing our home refining of oil into diesel based on that. Also, how that BP refinery at Kwinana in WA was allowed to close down is equally criminal. Mostly as that would supply the west coast of our enormous island. We, the people are great, but we’re led by fools.
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The collective mass got what we voted for. The voters in McMahon have got Blackout over the line FIVE TIMES. So there are obviously more stupid voters in MacMahon than smart voters.
One Nation has been around for a long time so smart voters did have a choice.. And Tony Abbott was not a fool but not smart enough to defeat Turncoat.
Tony Abbott would make a formidable addition to One Nation. But he has not got the humility to recognise that Pauline has been on the right track all along.
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Nope, still going with “the people are great, we’re led by fools”. Us voters just had rubbish choices or the choices were not presented to us.
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That wears thin. Eventually you must accept that Victorians are fools, but I really shouldn’t single them out, that would be unfair.
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Does that chip make you walk lopsided?
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In Qld we had Plukka. As I said it would be unfair to single out Victorians.
How is your war against the US turning out?
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“We, the people are great, but we’re led by fools.”
We, the people are completely ignorant of politics and keep voting for the most incompetent govt available.
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‘ … was allowed to close down is equally criminal. ‘
Nope, free market capitalism is the main game plan, but if we go onto a war footing then obviously we’ll get our act together in double quick time.
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There won’t be enough time once the war starts.
Military adage, the seven “P’s”:Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
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We are at the forefront of drone technology and unmanned systems, but I can’t see China invading anyone in the foreseeable future.
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FPV drones are severely limited in range. In Europe 100 miles is relevant, it is a big no man’s land.
Assuming no one is stoopid enough to invade mainland China, the spectacular success of drones in Ukraine hardly matters.
As an aside, wouldn’t any “thinking” Chinese citizen wonder what the enormous Army is really for?
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Transportation and power generation diesel coupled to mining and farming diesel demands overshadow the use in small vehicles
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Uninformed people have been rushing out to buy EVs, these cars have been shown to only retain 35% of their new cost after 5 years.
Secondhand ones are just buying someone elses problems, and just wait till they get the bill for insuring the heap.
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What is the value of a car with no fuel?
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More than an EV as unreliable renewable but inefficient energy is continued as an exercise in futility while ignoring the natural resources Australia has in abundance
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Merely not being able to put fuel into the car will be the least of one’s troubles if things get so bad. What’s the point of a charged up EV if our economy is in tatters?
Expand your thought.
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Tell us on a series of windless nights.
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I was thinking more of what they will be stuck with when this crisis is resolved , but I have also thought, ‘Drive an EV and starve an Arab’.
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EV promotions always state range as UP TO, and never admit that various factors including on road realities reduce theoretical range with 100% batteries charge by around 30% before driving away. And same percentage applies to the recommended regular recharge maximum of 80% of batteries capacity.
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Also, those glowing range figures are calculated using all that the battery can give, whereas if you use it sensibly and range from 80% to 20%, you lose 40% straight up, then further losses if you dare to use the aircon or heater or drive into the wind etc.
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A few days ago I said that the 2 EV charging point at the local supermarket were occupied, something I had never seen before, and often musing as I went past why the RAA had installed them.
The last 2 times I’ve been past there was no-one there.
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I am so sick of politicians talking nonsense on energy/electricity/nett zero/climate/aborigines/everything. Why don’t they need to make sense?
My worst was former Victorian Premier on not building dams. “Dams don’t make water”. Duh! No one said they did.
but Chris Bowen wins outright for patronizing stupidity
“No war can impede the flow of sun to Australia.
No sanctions can be applied to wind.
And the sun has to travel 150 million kilometres to Earth – it doesn’t have to travel the 150km of the Straits of Hormuz.”
” the cheapest form of energy, which is renewables”
“the government must keep electrifying the nation and build Australia’s sovereign capability through renewables,
insisting no one internationally is calling for more fossil fuels.” Clearly then there is plenty of oil and gas and not a problem. Just spin up those windmills. And leave the sun up 24/7. Those electric jets are amazing. Electric ships, electric trucks, electric tractors,..
And the Victorian ban on fossil fuels in the Constitution was seriously to ‘protect agricultural land ‘ which is being destroyed by solar farms, windmills and another 30,000 km of windmills, needed only for wind and solar. And a ‘national’ grid which no one wants or needs.
It’s insulting. Cheap ‘renewables’ energy. Renewables Superpower. Exporting electricity. How?
There is zero connect between the climate spin, energy spin and reality. Zero science. Wind and solar cheap? We still have to spend another trillion or two just to acheive what we already had in output. On a system which will have a lifespan under 20 years.
And useless Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls on America to stop the blockade because it is pushing up oil prices? With depth like that, it’s brain transplants all round.
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The only one seriously interested in saving the planet at present seems to be Donald Trump.
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Trump has started a religious war/for Israel….we all know how that ends….serious defeat for one…..oil is a start. Lucky Indonesia has a friend in China and Russia,……Australia has the rabid warmonger….AMERICA. Australia on a deep dive to OBLIVION !!!!!!!!!
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By any measure the ol’ USofA likes to interfere in other nations affairs and doesn’t mind lying (trust us -we’re American)about the reasons for doing so. WMD’s for breakfast? Ritter and Blix looked. Pax Americana indeed.
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oops green tick there!
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POTUS Trump is ending a religious war he felt should have been ended by Jimmy Carter almost 50 years ago. And the world has paid dearly for that lack of action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjt7TO3Ptys
It has taken 46 years for him to get the opportunity and this great man is taking with both hands.
God saved him from the assassin’s bullet to do this great work in ridding the world of oil funded terrorists. Imagine what the clerics would do with a nuclear arsenal. Look at what they have done to their dissenters; the Victorian police only used rubber bullets. The IRGC use lead bullets between the eyes.
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Spiel chucker is unreliable.❤️
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I issue this challenge to each and every one of our politicians, and their staffs, of whatever political persuasion. Please!, please!, please! review what you are proposing to do to us, your vulnerable constituents, and have a serious navel-gaze about the likely result of your plans!
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“China had been dishonest about and leaked a bioweapon”
Wasn’t that the bioweapon made in the USA? Remind us who the aggressor is in the current oil war. Is it Russia, China, Iran?? I need to get some more mass media propaganda to straighten my head out.
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It was made in the Chinese Army Bioweapons laboratory in Wuhan. Built by the French, funded by Dr Fauci and the United states.
Australia was punished massively for even questioning the origin of the virus, which tells you everything.
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First we had the Trumptard, now we’ve got TrumpJesus!
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Oil production world wide, from Baku in 1900 to the US in 2025. The US is as big as Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Thanks to shale fracking 66%.
I suppose it should be plotted against rapid life ending CO2 driven Global Warming. 1.6Billion in 1900 at the start, most in abject poverty, to 8.3 billion today, most with mobile phones. That’s what cheap energy will do.
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FWIW – for the covid files
“REMEMBER, IF YOU EVEN HINTED AT THIS IN 2021 YOU WERE AT RISK OF PROSECUTION OR BEING SUED INTO OBLIVION: The Biden Admin Knew of COVID Vaccine Stroke Risk and Covered It Up. “New details emerging from a Senate investigation confirm that Biden administration officials at both the FDA and CDC knew about a significant stroke risk tied to Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster in people over 65. They knew. And they said nothing.” ”
https://instapundit.com/789623/#disqus_thread
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I foresee a future where Australia becomes a vassal state of China if not completely occupied. Its inhabitants becoming second rate citizens and the aborigines simple being enslaved like the Uyghurs now. The Chinese overlords will show the same respect to the environment as they do with the mining of rare earth metals now: they will destroy it. Much later, after all natural resources have been taken, it will be called the ‘rape of Australia’.
And all because you choose to, or consented to be ruled by mediocrity if not outright idiocy.
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None of that will be done- your parliament is far, far more likely to mandate that vehicles come with a windmill on top of the cab to power it.
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Ironically, the security risk of too little petroleum products is just one aspect of our future vulnerability. The fact that we have become totally vulnerable to China on renewables and EVs means that with the flick of a switch our grid could be shutdown completely if we continue with this energy transition.
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