Hugh Butler

One of the comments below shows hail damage. There's more rooftop solar in Australia now on 4.2m roofs than the whole coal fleet. Callide C blew up, took out all of Queensland. Paid for by insurance and the qld govt. (You and I). Hail storm. Panels survives most except the extreme ones - better than colourbond steel. Turns out from data over last decade that wind and solar are more resilient and less prone to outages. Called distributed resilience. Coal is the least reliable in Australia. You aren't just repeating the unrealibles from the fossil fuel industry and political partied like Australia LNP are you? Try reading. It's not hard, & it won't make your head hurt 🤕 😁 cleanenergycouncil.org.au/news-resources…

Christ that's tired, Rusty. How often is it not blowing off-shore? The whole POINT is that Oz is large enough to have enough renewables all over, and enough battery storage, that the grid is always supplied. Give it up, Digger, you've lost this one. Maybe go back to Vaxxes?

Using PR from the fossil fuel companies, not the ATO? Did you know that 92% of fossil fuel company investors are overseas investors, so companies pay no tax onshore and investors are normally in low tax threshold countries. Have you tried reading? It’s not hard and it doesn’t hurt. australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-expor…

@HughButler35 @WillKingston Fossil fuels in Australia pay $100+B in taxes, gets $16B fuel rebate. Wind & solar pay zero tax (many will never), get $30+B in subsidies plus consumers pay higher costs for intermittent power requiring firming. Libtards: look fossil fuels cost more 🤪

Renewable energy zealots never have a sufficient answer to the simple point that if renewables were actually cheaper than fossil fuels, you wouldn’t need subsidies and taxes to prop them up. The market would do its thing.

There's a consulting industry. Why? Surely business can think for themselves? Reality? They don't. Can't. Working in the business, not on the business. Lots were still buying BlackBerry phones in 2008. Hadn't realised the world changed. All had good excuse why the iPhone, released a year earlier wouldn't work. Like you now.

@HughButler35 lol, I’m not the one who’s thought bubble has holes all through it which has been pointed out multiple times. Anyway you’re so convinced you’ve ordered one yeah?

Electric trucking in Australia could smash diesel imports and cost in less than 4 years. Transport accounts for 20% of the nation's emissions. Electric B-Double prime movers cost about 30 c/ km for electricity, a third of diesel's cost. Analysis by David Leitch confirms that replacing the ~ 6,000 prime movers on the Sydney - Melbourne route saves over 4 billion litres. Payback in just 4 years. If expanded to Brisbane, it would account for about 54% of diesel imports. $10 billion in imports are gone. Sovereignty gained. Why not?

EV sales overtook ICE in the EU for the first time in December 2025. EV =217,898, up 51% year-on-year from Dec 2024, ICE = 216492, down 19% RMI say once EVs get to 14%, there is no stopping them. carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-j…

@OneTheRed Have you tried reading? It’s not hard and it doesn’t hurt.

@HughButler35 I'm not the one try to gloss over the obvious champ. Anyway, you seem so hell bent on it, when's your order due?

@stokdog Stone age did not end because they ran out of stones. Over 60% of the energy from fossil fuels is wasted. Similar to FF brain-dead proponents. * Electricity from 40% to 100% * Heat from 85% to 340% * Transport from 25% to 80%

Look how much coal Australia has ffs. We could power ourselves for hundreds of years. But no, the idiots are telling us its bad for the environment but its ok to sell it to China.

@Meerkat23219283 @JakeBeer11 Correct. The seat is central. Elon stated it will be available in both RHD & LHD given it only needs the screens swapped. But that is on Elon time, which is rubbery. electrek.co/2019/11/21/tes…

@HughButler35 @JakeBeer11 I looked into that and believe you are incorrect in that they are LHD not centre. It does look like that in some photos but the photos are misleading, the Tesla trucks are LHD.

@starman8888 Europe - in Dec 2025. Will jump this quarter. carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-j…

@HughButler35 Car Sauce who act as buyers agents and handle thousands of inquiries have seem this change since the war started.

Who says things can't change. Could Australia follow Indonesia with change from ICE to EVs. Why did the Labor govt give $2 billion fuel excise relief to oil companies, not change to zero oil - for ever!

A friend bought a Toyota Rav 4. 2 months ago. Did not believe me when I showed her the fuel cost when we swapped out. (then was $1.69/l) Had the normal range anxiety, how do I charge - even with solar on roof. She is now realising how much money she has just tipped down the gurgler. Instead of filling up once a week she nows says once a fortnight.

Instead of coughing up $2.55 billion (1/4 of the Army budget), do something real and fast-track 12 charging stations between Sydney and Melbourne. $2.55 billion goes straight to oil company shareholders. Poor economic management, just politics. Maybe provide $2.55 billion at 4% interest to companies prepared to do something. Payback within 2 to 4 years. theconversation.com/halving-the-fu…

@HughButler35 Not in dispute but what do we do right now is the real question.

@Conserv94813072 @VonVladimierV I understand perfectly fine. But LSFCOE methodology is flawed. Badly. And maybe Lazard might be wrong. But latest June 2025 they have not said we have been wrong for 18 years. Based on real data. Real companies. You? A nameless troll.

@HughButler35 @VonVladimierV You are an idiot or a fraud in spite of what you think of yourself if you don’t understand or want to understand the difference between LCOE and LFSCOE.

@_ColdHands_ Did you buy a BlackBerry in 2008? Same with any fleet owner in 2026

@HughButler35 Less than 4 years? You're not going to get the charging infrastructure built in that time, nor the networks to get the power to the regional areas where trucks would re-charge. I'd like this to be feasible but we'd get better value re-opening refineries & allowing fracking.

Unlike the 1970s oil crises, there are now better alternatives: 🔌 EVs + renewables + heat pumps could cut fossil fuel imports by 70% 🚗 EVs alone: $600bn/year in savings Every country has the potential to be energy independent with electrotech. 🔗ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

The diesel diehards are spewing. All those misconceptions they have. Weird. Conservative, RWNJ on X and they hate electricity and technology changes. Yet they write garbage on their mobile phones. You would think they want sovereignty from OPEC but they lean into it. This cartoon of arrival of electricity in 1890's. Same fear of the unknown.

@Mafesto @JakeBeer11 Really. Are you that simple to believe that falsehood. Wow. Stay out of the purple box.

@JakeBeer11 @HughButler35 None of that matters. Our road infrastructure isn’t approved and can’t handle the weight of b doubles that are electric.

The old complete 🐂💩 of LFSCOE from a graduate at Rice Uni, and taken and refined to spruik nuclear. Supposedly is a more "realistic costing for VRE". Image shows 4 countries LCOE. Then the LFSCOE crap model. Under all scenarios such as the AEMO ISP, Gencost, Frauhofer, UK, Lazard they have storage at less than 4% of electricity used. Use wind water, solar and batteries. LSFCOE model uses over 30% storage. Not real world.

@HughButler35 @VonVladimierV That’s just rubbish.

@_ColdHands_ Says who? * 12 charging stations? * Curtailed solar during midday - up to 17% of NEM demand. * Batteries - 12 months. Come on. The QLD LNP says they will have stadiums built and rail line to Sunshine Coast. Mind you - the Coalition could not build 25 rail car parks.

@Meerkat23219283 @JakeBeer11 The trucks are center driven, so will work in Aus just fine without any change. And Europe. As does the Windrose.

@JakeBeer11 @HughButler35 Suggest you read up on Tesla Trucks, can do 500 miles (804 KMs) on a full charge. Unfortunately they 1) don't build in RHD yet 2) when they do it will be out of their Texas site. No, they won't be suitable for Aus outback not Road trains but certainly could replace most diesels.