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by Jo Nova
The Iranian oil and gas crisis is causing a sudden realignment of national energy policy with reality.
Spare a thought for the poor Ecoworriers who are hoping the Straits of
Hormuz will finally be The Springboard to Renewable Heaven. Any day now, they think, the world will wake up to the wonders of low density energy captured in a million square kilometers of industrial glory…
Instead, just like the Ukraine War, the middle east crisis reminds everyone of the importance of fossil fuels.
After thirty years of international pogrom against coal — it only takes a few weeks of an energy crisis to explode propaganda that was six feet deep.
Japan, Korea, India, Europe, The Phillipines, (and that’s just in the last few days) have all announced they will be using more coal to make up for shortages in gas from the Middle East.
And even if the oil crisis ended tomorrow, things are not going back they way they were. The shock of discovering how vulnerable your nation is will leave a mark. National Energy Security is back on the agenda.
Japan to Allow More Coal-fired Power to Cope With Energy Shock
Only last November Korea vowed to phase out coal. This week, the word is that they are going to stop capping coal plants and allow them to operate more freely.
Europe will be burning more coal too…
Europe Boosts Coal-Fired Power as Gas Prices Rally on Iran War
And it’s coal for The Phillippines:
Philippines declares ‘national energy emergency’ and boosts coal power as Iran war grinds on
The Philippines president, Ferdinand Marcos, has declared a state of “national energy emergency” as a result of the Middle East war, which his administration said posed “an imminent danger of a critically low energy supply”.
The state of emergency, which will initially last for a year, was declared just hours after the country’s energy secretary said the Philippines planned to boost the output of its coal-fired power plants to keep electricity costs down as the war wreaks havoc with gas shipments.
The energy secretary, Sharon Garin, told reporters earlier on Tuesday that with the cost of liquefied natural gas (LNG) soaring, the country would “temporarily” be forced to lean even more heavily on coal.
And the most populous nation on Earth just decided to delay plans to phase out coal….
India Pushes Back Flexible Coal Power Plan Amid Cost Uncertainty
All around the world governments are discussing energy security.
They won’t forget a shock…
Photo: Coal plant by Dave Johnson
Bout damn time🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Not in Australia.
We have the very worst of the worst running our “energy” policy and Governments in general.
The simpletons of the Left who run Australia’s extreme anti-energy policies will just double down with more wind, solar and Big Batteries.
They are fanatically obsessed.
But more internittents won’t work either, because they’re all dependent on conventional energy sources for their manufacture, delivery across the ocean, local delivery and installation and maintenance. It’s not going to happen without oil. On top of all that, Australia is rapidly running out of money to pay for this fantasy with massive national debt and is the only OECD country for which the standard of living is actually falling. (Even Their ABC admits that. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/can-albanese-government-fix-the-economy-four-corners/105260320 )
The ONLY hope Australia has is to elect our only significant conservative party, One Nation. But even then, the damage already done is so extreme it may not be fixable any time soon. But at least they will slow or halt further damage.
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Yep.
Australia says, NUP. We’ll stick to wind and solar, ’cause they’re FREE!”
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Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor have faced criticism for their approach to renewable energy, with Taylor being described as a staunch opponent of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) and emphasizing reliability and affordability over emissions targets. Their policies have raised concerns about the future of renewable energy investment in Australia.
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The Liberals need to be upfront and openly and boldly announce that they will return Australia to how it was before Howard initiated us onto the present path of the destruction of our energy supply.
Why do they refuse to do that?
They need to clearly distinguish themselves from the commies
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I have heard that from Canavan and Taylor several times since they became Opposition Leader and Deputy Leader.
And I have posted various links here supporting my post #2.2 above
David, you must understand the spin doctors and relentless negativity directed towards Coalition, notably Abbott, Dutton, Morrison and earlier Howard by the leftist, Union Labor Greens Teals?
Misinformation even blatant lies claiming the white we read is really black, and ignoring how ludicrous the claim is, they do not expect us to believe but know most voters are gullible and not interested in politics generally
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LNP, the champion obfuscators! They hint & even say that net zero is whatever blah, blah, eventually stop telling us anything about their plans, in the hope we’ll forget about their devious plans. Meanwhile they won’t divorce us from the Paris accord because the accords aren’t binding & really don’t mean anything. Well, well I smell more obfuscation & devious double talk. If the Paris accord, linked to net zero targets aren’t binding & don’t mean anything why remain firmly married to the scam. DUMP IT!!!, the policies will remain and suddenly reappear as they’ve done in the past. They’re running a close second to Al Pinocchio!!
Simple solution is now in action. Dump the LNP together with their deviousness, their policies with two faces & those “ forked tongues “,!!
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“Renewable Energy Target (RET)”
Every time I look at my energy bill, I think it is actually “Renewable Energy Tax”
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The intermittancy and inherent unreliablility of ‘renewables’ is not the problem. It is your lifestyle and irrational desire to expect electricity to flow from your sockets any time you want. Once you accept that you can only have power when the combination of sunshine and wind it correct you will be fine.
Yes, that is all complete bollocks but the worrying thing is that the head of the former consumer protector now turned Net Zero activist Ofgem actually said something along these lines. And before the change in the German government, the Green retard economics minister Habeck was seriously suggesting that German industry – what little remains – would need to reorganise on that basis. No planning production based on demand but on looking at the weather forecast. You can’t help but think the West needs to expand or build more mental institutions as there is no shortage of potential inmates.
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Back in the day, they used to teach children the importance of energy and how it is a vital element of Civilisation.
Now they just teach them that inexpensive, reliable, properly engineered energy sources like coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro (not SH2) are evil and wind and solar will suffice to run a modern Civilisation.
In reality, without grid coal, gas, nuclear or hydro, in any affodable and practical implementation, grid wind and solar with batteries will provide minimal power, perhaps enough for a few low power lights at home, power to microwave your daily ration of insects, and an Internet appliance to receive Government propaganda and approved entertainment and for the Government to monitor you.
Of course, it was vital for the Left to stop teaching the history of technology and why wind, animal and human power was rapidly abandoned as soon as Thomas Newcomen invented the first practical steam engine in 1712.
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The world, minus Australia, is waking up. Albo and Bowen are determined to lead us down the path to ruination. What is worse, there are many here cheering them on. The Twiggys and the Turnbulls and the Holmes a Court and the Canon Brookes plus the Teals and the traitorous Greens are all hell bent on taking what they can from the Australian taxpayer in the guise of saving the world. The politicians in their employ are too dumb to understand that they are just pawns in a scam. A scam that is coming to an end everywhere but here.
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Always money talks!
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Vested interests, Climate 200 and associated organisations promoting climate change and renewable energy so called, many wealth creation ventures, and funding independent candidates known as the Teals and even donating to the Greens and Union Labor, also noting many Union business activities including industry super funds invested in publicly listed companies and union executives with board seats.
They combined are a very powerful and influential lobby group
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Sadly, we in the UK are in the same boat as you are given me a governed by incompetent retards and what’s worse, have an asylum escapee as energy minister.
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Recovery of mercury, cadmium, arsenic , lead, chromium, selenium etc. from coal ash would be a deal breaker.
Sulfur, nitrogen and carbon can already be recovered from flue gas as fertiliser.
Just an economic question , one might surmise.
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AI says that Flash Joule heating , powered by electricity , can recover the minerals in coal ash, and profitably.
All of which completely destroys the depiction of coal -fired electricity as irreducibly polluting.
Who knew?
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It’s been that way for a long time.
And just for fun, if you use garbage as a fuel you can recover all of that stuff from the garbage as well.
Works better than “recycling”.
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When reality bites, it exhibits its sabre-tooth dentures!
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Coal liquefaction is a chemical process that converts solid coal into liquid hydrocarbons, such as synthetic fuels and petrochemicals.
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… and it’s incredibly inefficient. The sole positive thing that will come from the Trump presidency is that it will wean the western world off fossil fuels.
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Dream on
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No.
The current just war against Iran just proves how essential they are and it will intensify the search for oil and alternative sources such as natural gas and coal conversion to liquid transport fuels.
It also proves how vulnerable Australia is due to decades of lack of preparation and search for oil and how absurd is the idea that Australia can run on wind and solar.
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Simon
Have you weaned yourself off fossil fuels? Have you sold your IC vehicles? Do you own only EVs? Do you have (subsidised) solar panels and a (subsidised) battery adjacent to your home?
And, most important, have you cut your home off from the carbon spewing grid?
If you haven’t done all of the above, you are clearly not serious.
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Hmmm, no reply from Simon. I think that we can assume that he has not weaned himself off fossil fuels.
Perhaps he is the Saint Augustine of global warming, “Gaia make me pure, but not just yet.”
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Useless Simon is living in a cave, wearing animal skins, living a subsistence life eating off a stone plate with timber cutlery, he is living off the exploits of a Coal, Oil and Gas driven world of dispatchable electricity with 90+% of household items either derived from, manufactured with or transported by FOSSIL FUELS and living a big fat hypocritical LIE, Shame, shame, shame.
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You are talking about the Kellogg Process – instigated in Germany during WWII and taken up by South Africa in the 1970s – SASOL1, 2 and 3 due to the oil embargo. Have you already forgotten this – they built these huge plants in the Transvaal to produce Oil from Coal on an industrial scale. The spin off was the production of many other compounds including ammonia, sulphur nitrates etc – so also producing fertilizer. It has been done and was not a concern until the 1990s started to demonise coal and oil. I know about it as I was involved in the design and construction of the foundations of 16 major plants as part of SASOL 2 and 3. Get real people.
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Thanks again Jo and the reality is that FFs also make air travel very, very safe today and before Covid about 4.5 billion people flew in 2019 and today we’re probably at that number again.
I’m sure 2024 and 2025 would be at least 4.5 billion again.
Many of these people are repeat flyers from wealthy countries, but I’ve included middle and low income countries as well.
In fact I’m sure 68 + million Aussies would’ve used air travel in 2024 and 2025.
In fact today the equivalent of over half the world’s population fly every year and the extreme safety factor is very reassuring for these flyers.
The graphs are active so you can easily check from 1970 to 2023.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-airline-passengers?tab=line&country=OWID_WRL~AUS~OWID_HIC~OWID_UMC~WB_NA~CHN~OWID_LMC~OWID_LIC
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Again here are the global death rates from aviation 1970 to 2021 and FFs make aviation super safe today, even counting the deaths from terrorist’s bombs etc.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/aviation-fatalities-per-million-passengers
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Any cycling of base load coal fired generators will increase costs. And increase unit costs dramatically.
Australia can produce base load electricity from Latrobe Valley for $23/MWh if there were no artificial constraints. It now costs $97/MWh due to cycling and artificial cost impositions on CO2.
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How many current politicians in Australia have worked in a power station, coal mine or oil refinery?
I know of one.
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Indeed, how many have ever worked in any productive job of any kind? Both Malcolm Roberts and Pauline Hanson of One Nation have, and it shows.
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Senator Bridget Mackenzie, she was a farmer before going to uni in her mid 20s.
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So, quadruple the cost to attempt to alter the weather in 70 years. I’d swear , but Rachel or Jo would censor me🙁
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Do you think the fuel crisis will stop the walking woke flying their private jets to COP31 in Turkey in November?
Recall also that our very own anti-energy simpleton, Chrissie Bowen, is “President of Negotiations” for the event.
Note that private jet parking arrangements for COP31 are still being finalised but the conference is 9km from Antalya airport (AYT) which has just undergone a major expansion and if that can’t accommodate all the private jets, there are other regional airports for parking your jet.
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Today we know that all FFs, Nuclear and Hydro make our lives very safe and yet we hardly ever see the accurate data from 1900 to 2025 referred to by the MSM or Pollies or Corporates or Teachers or Universities etc.
So what’s their problem and why do they want to hide the facts?
Deaths from all extreme weather events have dropped by at least 98% since 1900 and 2025 was the lowest death rates count over the last 125 years. See Dr Pielke jr.
Again here’s the death rates from all extreme weather events from 1900 to 2025.
IOW our death rates per 100,000 have dropped to SFA while our population has soared to record numbers over the last 125 years.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates?country=Flood~Extreme+weather~Wildfire~Drought~Extreme+temperature
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Why do you think Australia is almost* the only hold-out left in the world with a fanatical commitment to Net Zero?
-Is it because of deep infiltration of the Left into all institutions, public and private? (Rudy Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions”.)
-24/7 state-sponsored propaganda from Their ABC and SBS?
-Australian voters being extremely dumbed down and unable to distinguish truth from propaganda?
-The influence of prominent anti-energy activists?
-No practical difference in anti-energy policies or ideological beliefs between Green Labor and fake conservative Liberals?
-Thinking Australians are unrepresented except by One Nation who don’t yet hold many seats?
-Australians are addicted to “free stuff” from fellow taxpayers and have been propagandised to think wind and solar really are the cheapest form of electricity production (as a system) even though that is objectively a lie?
-The failure to any longer teach critical thinking or real science in the propaganda institutions which once functioned as schools?
-The powerful anti-energy lobby, probably funded by Big Green?
-The Prime Minister and many senior ministers being communists and having an interest in destruction of the economy to further their objectives?
-The influence of subsidy harvesters whose only objective is to harvest subsidies with wind, solar and Big Batteries simply as a parasitic business opportunity that only destroys, doesn’t produce?
-A combination of all of the above?
*NZ is also a hold-out, but they already had heaps of properly engineered hydro for their electricity and are more or less intrinsically Net Zero.
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Voters failed in their sacred duty to keep the bar stewards honest.
End of story.
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Voters are more interested in who’s got the handouts.
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You pretty much nailed the cause David but the big question is can it be fixed?
Computers, machines, things I can fix – faulty human psychology? Forget it!
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Fixing this involves individual acts of bravery.
https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/a-halfling-s-view-above-the-parapet
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“*NZ is also a hold-out, but they already had heaps of properly engineered hydro for their electricity and are more or less intrinsically Net Zero.”
Speaking of Net Zero, how is Cuba holding up.
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The energy expert Greta “the goblin” Thunberg is complaining Cuba has no oil.
Seriously.
At least, thats what the people who tell her what to think told her to say.
https://x.com/i/status/2034318854730420560
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“Thunberg is complaining Cuba has no oil.”
Isn’t that their end goal.
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At the NetZero conference at the end of last year, there was one of the academics who agreed with me from his own observations that NetZero and de-industrialisation were bed fellows.
He considered that more Australians will eventually realise that and have to choose what they want for Australia. He was agnostic on the outcome because he is so far back from any real production that he does not care about industry. As long as the campus remains attractive to Chinese students they will keep handing out degrees in all sorts of useless studies.
My own observation is that it is a long way back from where Australia is now. There has been no real investment in globally competitive industry in Victoria this century. Employment in mining in Victoria, the backbone of an industrial economy, with not fill a football stadium.
Victoria has managed to survive economically on Kennet’s push into casinos and events and now South Australia is pushing that line.
Academics are possibly the largest buyers of BEVs. So they will be quite smug about the “Sorry no fuel” banners on pumps. But their outlook may change when the supermarket shelves are bare.
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It was sickening watching Jacinta Allan talking at Geelong Refinery about the arrival of a tanker of Argentinian crude. A few months ago she and D’Ambrosio would have punched the air and celebrated their “renewable” fantasies had the refinery announced its closure. Now she tries to capture a bit of PR glow.
So now we are very dependent on the reliable feeding and operation of two small refineries plus product imports. All the geniuses that let our refineries close are nowhere to be seen.
How a country that sits on massive energy resources can be so energy poor , disorganised and with any strategic plan is a testament to our pathetic political class of all flavours.
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So , we the taxpayers are subsidising VIVA energy to stay operational in Geelong. To stay afloat because the economics doesn’t work with our high electricity costs. Which means VIVA should be running pretty lean. You know, watching their costs. VIVA energy are now one of the Geelong Football Club sponsors. Explain that to me.
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Equally enough to make one vomit, Albo giving a speech but just in front of the AUSTRALIAN flag. Yes the “other” national flags were there but off to one side. Suddenly he has a need to appear patriotic, you know because ON is a divisive party, not like labour which stands for diversity multi culturalism etc. No no Albo the great Australian.
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“Only last November Korea vowed to phase out coal. This week, the word is that they are going to stop capping coal plants and allow them to operate more freely.”
When is Australia going to wake up and do similar.
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When the Labor Party is forced by circumstances to see the destructive obsession held by Minister Bowen and his one man band destroying the nation by energy starvation and obstruction of doing anything about it.
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Some Leftists say the solution to the fuel crisis is to have more EV’s.
I am interested to know how this would work as we continue to shut down our only coal power stations which despite the assault against them are what’s keeping the lights on.
Can a house with solar panels and batteries both run their house and one or two cars? Including in winter?
What about people who live in apartments?
What about people with no panels but would like to take advantage of the supposed free 3 hours of lunch time electricity (for which I believe there are limits preventing you charging a car or battery bank)?
Could it work in any conceivable and practical, cost-effective way, disregarding the fact that EVs are unsuitable for long distance travel but may be OK for local trips?
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The apartments story is interesting. Apparently in NSW new strata apartments are obliged to have EV chargers installed and you cannot make unreasonable objections to charger installs in present structures. But if there’s 20 cars and only 2 chargers……
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A few years ago I read a report about a commercial-residential building in Port Melbourne and the Strata Title owners inquired about installing EV recharging stations in the multi-level carpark below. An electrical contractor inspected and was preparing a quotation and checked with the electricity provider for the grid district, the advice was we cannot permit the upgrading at that building because the local area grid could not cope with the extra loading required that for one EV was similar to peak hour demand for an average family home.
Upgrading was estimated to be a huge amount of money, transmission lines, sub-stations and so on.
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UN …
1975 Lima Protocol
1990 Agenda 21
1997 Kyoto COP emissions reduction
2007-2013 Copenhagen push Rudd Labor for emissions trading and later legislated carbon tax and renewable energy, away from fossil fuels
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The inability of our leaders and the mandarins of Canberra to consider anything further afield from “what, where and when” ….into the common sense world of “why and how” is breathtaking. Their thought processes look no further than the next election, the latest polling, and the cunning lies of the PMs media unit. Feeding a stupid, crass main-stream-media full of high school graduates who go straight into uni media courses doesn’t help either.
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In Australia what’s happening? People are having discussions about whether to buy an EV or a PHEV. It reminds me of the heated discussions around COVID vaccines. Were you going to get a AZ or Pfizer? Choosing between options that would make absolutely no difference to their health or well being. People with way too much money and time on their hands.
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The type of people that use hire purchase and do not account for all charges and interest and up to twice original price to be paid
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Time for all parties to work towards a bill which mandates energy self-sufficiency in Diesel, Petrol, Jet Fuel and also fertilizer, as well as on-shore reserves of each exceeding 90 days. Production of biofuel from Canola and also biproduct cotton seeds and other byproduct oil sources. Liquid fuel and fertilizers from coal and garbage should not be excluded. Commonwealth should allow access to capital funding at the Government bond rate and any Commonwealth impediments to oil and gas exploration, drilling and development, including on ‘Aboriginal’ lands should be removed. Only then can our nation be secure.
We should consider the present situation a serious wake-up call. It may also serve to get us out of the anti-manufacturing service industry mindset we have as a country.
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ON may be our only hope!
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The only hope is cooperation, bury any hatchets forthwith, cooperate, centre/centre right One Nation, Liberals, Nationals, Queensland LNP.
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Well Angus Taylor is not out and about much and seems to be doing a Sussan Ley on immigration policy and energy policy. Great ! The Liberal Party leader has succumbed to Liberal Party HQ ……
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Love the way the carnival barkers in the renewables sector are suddenly talking up a surge to EVs. They know the difference between a blip and a trend (you’d hope), but they aren’t letting that cruel their pitch.
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Just back from shopping and I noticed that the 2 EV Charging stations (installed by RAA) had customers.
For years as I drive out of the Supermarket I have only seen one bay occupied, and that rarely.
I haven’t heard of any University types living in the town: it’s bit far out of Adelaide I would have thought.
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Bit of let down at my local shopping centre where the EV chargers have been removed and four replacements were started months ago but still not open and fenced off as a construction site with no work underway
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Who knew King Coal could provide electricity and steam for processes as well as power trucks, trains, ships and cars with the liquids from coal process.
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Who would have thought that sailing clippers would be replaced by steam and sail and quickly steam engine power only?
Must have been renewable energy unreliable and expensive sails, masts and gear to utilise the wind when blowing?
It reminds me of a sailing ship period saying that does apply today to Albanese Labor, Greens, Teals, climate renewables fixation …
A sailing ship without a good captain and officers will forever sail into the wind.
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Just about everything useful we use today has been derived from FFs like oil and natural gas according to the long list at the US Department of Energy.
The loonies that howl about how dangerous FFs are and that we must stop using them are delusional and barking mad and should be properly educated for their own good and for the sake of humanity.
These loons live in a fantasy world and they would be very happy if their hated freedom loving normal people ceased to exist.
They dream of a communist state where the rest of us would be locked up and punished for a very long time.
Here’s a short basic list of just some of the everyday products made from FFs.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/11/f68/Products%20Made%20From%20Oil%20and%20Natural%20Gas%20Infographic.pdf
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Why am I in moderation?
Sorry. No reason I can see. I’m away from the desk — Jo
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Time to revert our automobiles to the old fashioned ‘gas producer’ add ons of WW2?
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Probably not so easy on a modern car.
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Following from 1970-1990 fuel standards specifications changes, internal combustion engine specifications changes and engine management system changes, transition away from fossil fuels saga
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Remind me again how much Australia “going it alone” and being just about the only country to shut down its energy supply will affect the world’s weather in 2050.
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At least Australia will have greatly improved weather and climate in future.
sarc
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I can only be delighted that Australia can control its own CO2 levels, its own climate. It may cost us trillions but we will show the world we can go it alone. We can only be grateful to the Greens and Teals for The Science. We will be the world’s first wind and solar superpower. Who needs coal, oil and gas? Not Australia.
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So much better to
build our lives
on what SHOULD BE
rather than
namby-pamby
natural reality.
Better those dreams
as in The magical
Land of Oz, or
Emerald City. -=
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The simpletons who run our government keep telling us Australia will be a “renewable energy superpower”.
What exactly does that really mean?
Stupidpower, certainly.
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/speeches/speech-australia-renewable-energy-superpower-australian-embassy-japan
This is one definition. Yes, there really is a “Superpower Institute”….
https://www.superpowerinstitute.com.au/news/australia-as-a-green-superpower-is-more-than-just-a-slogan
“Helping Australia to seize the extraordinary economic opportunities of the post–carbon world” is their by-line.
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Rod Sims and Ross Garnaut are totally committed to wind and solar. Except it is compelete nonsense.
https://theconversation.com/ross-garnaut-and-rod-sims-have-proposed-a-100-billion-a-year-fossil-fuel-tax-and-its-a-debate-australia-should-embrace-223722
They want $100Billion a year carbon tax, as if Australians are not already paying as much. Safeguard mechanism, RET, hidden taxes everywhere. An out of control Snowy II.
Posing as informed consultants, they would also directly and massively benefit from their ridiculous CO2 avoidance businesses.
Mankind does not and cannot control CO2. . CO2 has hardly changed in the last half century. The entire Green industry is a ripoff of unprecedented size, worldwide. And everyone wants a spare $100Billion. Except the UN which wants $150Billion.
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Here in the UK, we have no worries, as the Magnificent Mr. Miliband is going to pass a law requiring the wind to blow 24/7/365.
This will pass the Commons, where Labour has a majority; it might, you think, be scuppered in our Upper House, but Sir Starmer saw that coming, and has made it, effectively [if not yet in name], the House of Cronies.
He appoints who he pleases.
My understanding is that the next batch will not be all-Muslim.
And they, like good little lapdogs, scared of losing their golden meal-ticket, will approve the Wind [All Hours] Bill.
Next month, the Majestic Mr. Miliband will legislate similar hours for the Sun.
We may have no worries, but with, still, about 39 months to a General Election [unless it is ‘decided’ to postpone that, too] we are a long way up that Creek, well-known in verse and song, in a barbed-wire canoe, without a paddle.
Auto, taking the first steps to investigate migration – to Poland
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It’s a shame that so many coal fired power stations have been blown up!
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Many of them (over a hundred) have been converted to use gas in the US.
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Never mind. The instant the oil and gas start flowing again the UniParty in ‘Straya will revert straight back to Net Zero lunacy.
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