If policymakers conclude the answer to fuel shortages is to simply build much larger liquid fuel reserves, they will lock Australia into a worse dependence on less reliable supplies of petrol, diesel and other liquid fuels. As geopolitical tensions increase, this reliance is foolish in the extreme.
What Australia needs isn’t bigger fuel tanks. It’s to build energy independence. A nation able to run its transport sector on its own resources is a nation better able to weather global uncertainty. The fastest and most cost-effective way to do so is to accelerate the electrification of transport, powering vehicles with electricity from renewables and storage.
They both have EVs? Really? 😆 Ol’coalface-Canavan? Wow, such an acting queen. And now he’s play acting at responsible leader. Can’t wait for his role in Romeo and Juliet.
“Oh, Romeo! Romeo! Where art thou EV?”
Yeah it’s all bullshit and projection with them. Of course they take advantage of these things, they know they’re money savers and they get massive rebates.
Shitty people in the truest sense they are. Canavan has personal interests in mining through his family and Hanson exists to extract whatever she can however she can.
Same with the premier; that grub has no issues spruiking up the power saving but it’s all through renewable sources that they exist. Then goes out to fuckin Taroom in hi vis to sing something that’s long been in the works and far from any energy panacea as his government delivering a solution.
Meanwhile we can’t keep electric cars on the shelf and China can’t sell them fast enough to us.