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@CricketSurfing @arbsmichael You mean let the oil companies rip off the public even more than they are now!

@arbsmichael In the short term it can solve the immediate problem with a very simple measure: deregulate fuel prices completely. No “anti-gouging” laws. No price controls. Then, of course, you are right: for the long term, it can deregulate exploration and refining.

Australia is in a fuel squeeze, and the government really only has two paths. One is heavy-handed. Declare an emergency, intervene in the market, ration supply, restrict movement, and manage the decline. The other is strategic. Australia is energy-rich. We have abundant gas, coal, and uranium. We have leverage, and we should use it. We can make continued access to our precious resources conditional on replenishing and boosting our fuel stores. We should negotiate from our position of strength. The first action of government in a fuel crisis should not be to limit how Australians live, but to ensure our nation has the fuel to keep living.

@offtrack350 @JNampijinpa What a perfect example of a lying tratior bitch.

@JNampijinpa What a fraud 😒

We need more nation builders.

@TimjboAU What was that word - LANDSLIDE?

50 to 64-year-old Australians have had enough of Albo and Jim's Labor Party. One Nation is set to romp home in Farrer. #auspol

@PeterOB24979769 Twaddle!

Andrew Hastie is an enigma. Why attack Trump over a fuel shortage when the real problem is Australia’s lack of preparedness? Doesn’t he know his base generally supports Trump? After a few recent incidents, I don’t think he has any idea what he’s doing. His judgement is terrible.

@ausstockchick Under LIBS, Company profits take a giant leap forward, wages go backward, productivity drops. Now the wages are rising, and the bitches go into full wailing mode backing the big companies! Amazing.

What is this government trying to do to us? Albo has called for an above-inflation minimum wage increase for almost 3 million workers!! This is not sustainable. Absolutely mind blowing!! #auspol #ausbiz

@commiepommie In your dreams, you leave out the cost aspects of a new refininery/s, and storage costs etc. I can just see all the gripes we would have had about cheaper fuel from Asia and why are we not buying it there.

As an Australian living in China, with my family still back home, it’s a weird mix of emotions right now. I spent years warning people about exactly this kind of situation, how our government was selling off our energy security to foreign interests and failing to keep enough reserves for Australians. I was mostly laughed at or dismissed. Now that it’s happening, I feel concern for my family and the country… but yeah, there’s also that quiet, bitter little “I told you so” in the back of my mind. The country had it coming! Glad my wife, daughter and I are living in China.

@ipfreak1 @commiepommie Still banging on about Nuc - your credibility drops to zero

@commiepommie australia should go with a plan of electrification for the whole country, from power resources such as solar, wind and nuclear. of course, that means autralia needs to rebuild its power grids. fossil fuel based power generations will be only used to balance the power grids

@GreenTyler27 Would you rather see Gladstone, BellBay etc shut down and all the jobs go?? And manufacturing capacity?? Dumb fluck!

Now if “green energy” was the cheapest option available would Rio Tinto need a $2B subsidy to use it? Of course not. This isn’t a market transition at all, it’s a taxpayer-funded one. This is how we get to $1T debt levels.

@provemewrong411 Russian rooter lol

I’m not sure why Putin allows this to continue. He has a golden opportunity to level everything in that God-forsaken land while everyone is distracted in Iran, yet he still permits zelensky to create chaos. What kind of strategy is this? How many more ports, factories, and other critical infrastructure sites will be damaged because of Putin’s inability to handle the situation properly?

@fordyforthcomin @MadsMelbourne @brian5491 But of course the whingers won't want to PAY for holding massive fuel stocks "in case", or building new refineries etc. It will be "why dont we buy our fuel from Asia, it is half the price!"

@MadsMelbourne @brian5491 So you acknowledge that governments worldwide need to be prepared to react to the latest whims of a narcissistic madman?

As diesel edges towards $4 a litre it should be obvious to everyone that the ignorance and inaction by the Australian government isn’t by accident. This fuel crisis is exactly the outcome they wanted. This has been planned which is exactly why they are doing nothing about it!

@itsrayfinkle @Batman2242 What was that word again? LANDSLIDE? Dream on winkle

He’s too fucking stupid to run an economy. The only thing he knows how to do is manipulate retards through emotion and handouts. He got away with it for a term, as most parties can, but it’s all going to shit now as there’s only so long you can bullshit your way through running a country.

We are in big trouble. Albanese and Co, want us to collapse, Farms, produce, manufacturing, energy, everything. Its coming, fast.

@VDejan0000 Another cooker!

The government has plans in place to strip Australians from home ownership. There are rules coming wherein your house will need to meet all energy saving, green goals or your house will be uninsurable & therefore not able to be sold. Every couple of years they will shift the green energy goalposts & you will have to upgrade your appliances, costing sometimes around $30,000, so that you can receive a Green Energy Certificate or you will get no insurance.

@MaxamanEffect @TruthFairy131 First point is nutter speak, second might have some basis except both parties agreed, and ON is a Trump wannabe so who are you voting for? Santa?

@TruthFairy131 AUKUS was signed so they can funnel billions of dollars to American & Israeli terrorists. Three submarines are absolutely a total waste of money.

What we also have in Australia is a corrupt rogue traitorous tyrannical Government. They could drop the fuel excise but these parasites would rather send us broke so they can send our hard earned money overseas, invest it into ridiculous woke projects & give it to newly arrived foreigners.

@Reekyracer @TruthFairy131 The dumb fvcks are those who kept LIBS in for so long. And think they or ON can now "fix" their gripes.

@TruthFairy131 The state we are in its because we have a country full of dumb fvcks that all want a hand out and work from home so we get ALBO and his group of 💩stains in government running the country into the ground all the while productivity goes to 💩 education has failed us

@TruthFairy131 Yep, with a whopping MAJORITY too. Wonder what the voters think? Duh!

@RepNancyMace The Reps dont have a set of balls among them big enough to say NO. Watch what happens folks!!

Just walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran. Let me repeat: I will not support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing.

@ellymelly @M46726805 Yes stuff like sign short term deals with US to get oil in a crisis. It is NOT a long term solution, just a get out of jail card

@M46726805 Yeah. Sometimes you have to do stuff you don't like to stop a nation collapsing while you structure a longterm solution. That's politics.

Secure fuel deal with US. It'll cost more but that's fine. Cut fuel excise immediately to compensate. Set prices back to normal for duration of supply crisis to stabilise economy. Make up for lost tax revenue by immediately cancelling or postponing ALL foreign-based crap green energy projects and foreign aid. Australians FIRST. This shit is not hard to solve, Albanese.

@comical_engr You can't be a very smart engineer if you are still banging on about Nuc in Australia, after all the ex-LIBS bullshit has been "obliterated" by science and reality. It is NEVER going to fly in Aus, but the fact you & others keep dredging it up, shows you just dont get it.

As an engineer working in the energy sector here is how I would solve our energy crisis: Cancel net zero, what Australia does in this space is pointless. Given our isolation have one year's storage of petroleum products. Build an energy sector that utilises all of our bountiful resources, such as gas, coal, nuclear and some renewables (rooftop solar, geothermal, hydro) Prioritise energy security and cost to consumer. Build refinery capacity to meet our local needs. The refineries should be flexible to support different oil crudes. For energy exports follow the Qatar model, local use first then export to drive down costs. Drill baby drill and consider technology such as Gas to Liquids and biodiesel to shore up our oil reserves. Produce all of our own fertiliser and adblue locally. The gulf crisis has shown the folly of our current approach. Whatever the question is Hydrogen is not the answer. @PaulineHansonOz #auspol

@SOFXnetwork Sounds like bull to me

A U.S. Marine Corps release on March 23, 2026 detailed how Lance Cpl. Eirick Schule developed a 3D-printed replacement for the MUOS antenna mast in April 2025, cutting costs from $5,644 per unit to about $10 and reducing delivery time from over 7 months to 10 hours, with 107 units produced and an estimated $600,000 saved.

@GetRealNowAus @CatherineD42535 LNP are onto anything ANTI-labour, with not a costed policy in sight. But they are TOTALLY irrelevant, as shown by ON flogging them in SA. Doubt LIBS can ever shed their bias and muster/support a policy that is pro-Australia.

@CatherineD42535 LNP are already onto it . One seat won't do shit. One Nation keeps Labor in office. She's a fucking fraud.