I’m such an idiot, I thought being halfway across the world from this orange pedo would keep me shielded from his shenanigans. I was so wrong, this one man has messed up the entire world. Why is allowed to live still? I abhor violence but I also understand when an exception (or two) have to be made
Just keep unwaveringly supporting America and Israel mate!
Regardless of whom he supports, the oil prices are still going to stay up for him, since he has no production of his own to compensate.
If America and especially Israel were treated as pariah states, this shit would’ve been less likely to happen.
As it so happens Australia is one of their biggest cheerleaders.
Doesnt Australia export oil and gas?
It exports crude oil, but has not enough refining capacity for its own consumption.
Ah really, same as Canada, thats interesting.
Wow the Australian government has failed it people too.
Probably, but it’s not like they could do much about it.
The American government failed the Australian people.
They put too much faith in allies that don’t care about anyone.
how is australian public transport? cause far as i know, only the beach parts are habited, the middle part is mostly rural.
No one goes to the middle part except rural people, which is why no one goes to the middle part
Our public transport is middling, not great, but not terrible. Mind you, if everyone started using it, it would be terrible
Rural people, so boring.
They are. It may be a result of the crap internet they voted to have?
And I bet companies still won’t relaxe Home Office rules and still make everyone come into the office rip.
I am surprised that their country isn’t mostly working on Solar considering the sun hours they get and the available space.
Not sure what everyone else is on about we are heavily invested in renewables now:
What are the colors other than coal?
I’m glad to see coal in decline 😉
All the data for the national energy market is public: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
I assume its energy storage problems, and its not efficient enough to import solar and the large amount of batteries required from China yet.
Maybe if Australia keeps increasing its coal exports to China the price will come down as energy prices fall in China.
Is it that expensive to import solar pannels from China, I get that infrastructure scale batteries are expensive?
Total cost of power its very expensive. When you see how cheap solar is that’s just the panels, you then have to deal with the intermittency, and the backup power generation for the periods where performance is degraded.
This is outdated - the LCOE of solar/wind+battery storage is lower than fossil methods of power generation.
Have a reputable citation?
Here’s why renewables are expensive, which takes all costs into account for 100% uptime of power, without brownouts.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544222018035
Most studies ignore a lot of cost.
That study is a massive dumpster fire, and most certainly not a reputable citation
Do you have a study then, dont just come and take a shit.
I want the study to include storage, and maintenance obviously, and any backup power required for 100% grid reliability.
As Donald Horne pointed out in 1964, we are country of happy go lucky fools, electing mostly idiots. Nothing much has changed.
Don’t get me started, we could be world leaders in renewables, if our politicians weren’t funded by mining billionaires and our media wasn’t heavily controlled by Murdoch
Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.
Even Australia is affected by the crisis…
Specially Australia; it’s an Island in the middle of nowhere that has to import everything.
Bye bye Petrodollar! Man is the us fucked.
That’s more of a plan than, “High oil prices are great for us. We’re gonna make so much money.”
1)secure oil
2)people say it’s not profitable
3)???
4)it’s profitable
Not much more though
I’m sure the transit system is capable of handling such an increase is riders…
God damn. So many people working hard to find the most negative takes on absolutely everything here.
Identifying a future problem caused by the advice is just being pragmatic. Did Australia announce increased service capacity along with this advice? (I absolutely did NOT read the article.)
The people profiting off of making civilization dependent on oil should be the ones to pay when oil prices go up.
The future is a Cunt, right? But we’re all right Cunts on the bus!
Wait, is that the Aussie version of bozos on this bus?
“The prime minister sought to assure Australians it was still business as normal but said workers should consider taking public transport to conserve fuel supplies for those who didn’t have the option.”
Is he really this stupid???
I’m in the usa, and I even know there are already extensive fuel shortages in Australia. Mostly due to Australia’s refusal to keep the required 90 strategic reserve or have any refineries.
PS: Yes I know this is all trump’s fault, but Australia and New Zealand seem to have just refused to prepare for the inevitable.
His party did try, but the voters weren’t a big enough fan of that idea apparently. So bringing stupidity into the equation would probably just offend voters smart enough to realise that much.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/labor-calls-for-national-fuel-reserve/u5cjwpc36
South Africa dodged a similar problem, our last president sold our 90 day reserve to his Dubai buddies below market rate. Fortunately our new multiparty government has competent people in place that fixed that before this crisis. Thus our fuel price is “only” going up by 15%, rather than tracking the oil price. It will go up more eventually, but some buffer is being provided for to soften the blow.
I am very surprised that australia and new Zeeland did not have bigger reserves, given they are on the end of a long supply chain and conflict in indonesia and china can cut off supply for a long time, not the mention a middle east crisis.
I am very surprised that Australia and New Zealand did not wean themselves off fossil fuels decades ago, given they are developed countries with wealth and skills and democracy.
Some of the downstream processing infrastructure is already there, we just needed one more push. Hopefully this is it.
Time to stop exporting the raw goods (coal, steel, gas, hydrogen, lithium etc) offshore and then buying it back. Time to actually process it here and use it.
I’d like to think Trump is actually doing the world a favour by showing us what a fair weather friend America really is. His doctrine of America first may force the rest of the world to stop depending on America entirely.
Like most countries the conservative parties fight tooth and nail to stop any sort of renewable power or electrification and Australia had its own glut of Red hat morons over the last 16 or so years.
Yes. And despite that, one in three Australian homes now has rooftop solar.
Renewables supplied over half the national grid in Q4 2025, with roughly 7 GW of new capacity added that year alone. Nearly 200,000 home batteries were installed in the second half of 2025.
One in three new vehicles sold now has some form of electrification, with hybrids leading the shift and petrol sales dropping 10% last year.
Even heavy industry is moving. Australia already operates the world’s largest fully driverless freight rail network - Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs 1,700km of heavy-haul trains across the Pilbara, controlled remotely from Perth, straight from the mine to the deep-water port at Cape Lambert.
Battery-electric locomotives are now in trial on those same lines. Electrification is happening at every scale here - rooftop, road, and rail - often despite the politics, not because of it.
Green power and electric vhicles go!
Great if you can afford them.
FYI: Most Australians drive used cars, it’ll be ~10 years before we start to see used BYD’s and such falling into the hands of the working class.
~10 years before we start to see used BYD’s and such falling into the hands of the working class.
A ten year-old electric will have it’s battery completely worn out. That’s why EVs devalue and essentially end up a junk faster than conventional ICEs.
My EV is 5 years old now. Currently there is no noticeable difference in the battery capacity. The battery is warranted to be replaced if less than 90% capacity before 10 years.
In another 5 years if I’ve lost ~30km of range it will still be barely noticeable. Even as low as 50% wouldn’t effect my daily usage, I would just have to plug it in more often.
Now I’m a pretty chill driver, and charge using the 10amp “travel” charger and have only used a fast charger about 12 times, so pretty good for battery life. You can’t know how someone has driven a car and if they’ve thrashed it the battery could be in much worse condition. But the same can be said for ICE, and to be fair replacing an engine is much cheaper than batteries; though I’ve not looked into pricing as I have no need yet.
The electric model cost $10,000 more than the petrol model and I’ve just hit 100,000km. So far I’ve saved $10,000-$12,000 in petrol costs (after electricity costs) compared of my old hybrid. The further you travel the more significant the savings are compared to petrol, even moreso if you can charge off of solar/solar+ home battery. The less you travel the less the battery will degrade.
So replacing a battery at 10 years at a minimum would break even with an ice vehicle over that time, much more likely is you’ll still have saved more money.
I don’t know if there is a way to find out how much a car battery has degraded, or how reliable it would be. I think that would help ease some anxiety about buying a used EV at least a little if you can see the battery is still +90% capacity.
I thoroughly agree it would be a massive kick in the teeth to buy a used one only to find the capacity is shot and needs to be replaced.
My EV is 5 years old now. Currently there is no noticeable difference in the battery capacity. The battery is warranted to be replaced if less than 90% capacity before 10 years.
Really depends on usage. And the main problem here is that not all manufacturers will support a model after 10 years.
Maybe your politicians should do something about it then. I have no idea how australian import of cars work. But in Denmark there is, at standard 175% taxes on a car. They removed this for electric vhicles which made them explode. The infrastructure of charging was suddenly a good business. And over a span of 6 years electrics now is the majority of cars on the roads.
We no longer have any extra tariffs on Cars, as the Australian auto industry is long gone there is nothing to protect.
Is this true? The luxury car tax was bought in to protect our auto industry, I thought that was still a thing even though our auto industry is long dead
Kick the seppo cunts out of Pine Gap.
Based but gets yourself into trouble pilled
Everyone on the Boy Boy YT channel is probably monitored 24/7 now lol
