Mr.MojoRisn

**Facts only:** Australia's own govt data shows just 38 days of petrol & 32 days of diesel reserves the lowest in the OECD, ignored since 2012. Labor's "minimum stockholding" was never built up; they just lowered diesel standards and released scraps instead. The war is global. Our empty tanks are 100% domestic policy failure. Blaming Trump while calling others "poor thinkers" is pure deflection. Whinge at the mirror.

Whinging fuel n blaming the govt has become the national sport for many. What poor thinkers! 1. Trump caused it 2. Trump is a mad man out of control 3. As the war extends so does the fuel crisis 4. You “ain’t seen nothing” yet 5. Save whinges till the real fuel/FOOD crisis hits

@dsriggs @KosSamaras Sorry if actual facts upset you..

@dylan01 @KosSamaras Nice em dashes, clanker

This is why the UK Greens are succeeding. And it’s a lesson the Australian Greens need to learn. Meet Mothin Ali. Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Son of a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the UK in the 1960s and worked as a unionised steelworker in Sheffield. Mothin grew up in that world, the world of shift work, union solidarity and communities holding each other together. He’s now a Leeds councillor in Gipton and Harehills, one of England’s most deprived wards, where 40% of residents are Muslim and the cost of living is a daily crisis. He’s not the stereotype of a working-class northerner. But his family has been in those communities just as long as anyone. His father worked the same steel. Paid into the same union. Felt the same deindustrialisation tear through the same streets. Mothin Ali is working-class Britain, as it actually exists in 2026, not as a sepia photograph. We could say the same about the working class in Australia in 2026. That’s what the UK Greens under Zack Polanski have understood. Working-class communities are diverse. They always were. But they share the same material reality: rents going up, wages going nowhere, streets hollowed out, and a political class that stopped listening decades ago. The UK Greens are speaking to that shared experience, in English, Urdu and Bangla, and putting leaders who come from it at the front of the room. Now contrast that with the Australian Greens. The Australian Greens remain culturally anchored to the inner city. Fitzroy. Newtown. University-educated, professionally progressive, and genuinely well-meaning but culturally legible only to a narrow demographic slice. When they go to the outer suburbs, the places actually doing it hardest, they have historically struggled. The difference isn’t ideology. Both parties want economic justice. The difference is who is seen to speak for working people and where those people feel the party actually comes from. Mothin Ali spent decades in one of England’s toughest communities before he ever stood for office. That matters more than some appreciate. youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA?si…

**Nice try, Hut—zero facts, pure cope and selective blindness.** Your “point 3” is laughable fiction. Labor’s been in federal power for four years and just delivered the **highest-ever net overseas migration on record: 494,540** in the last 12 months. That’s the extra demand you “accounted for” while fuel reserves sat at a pathetic ~30-37 days—the only IEA member violating the 90-day rule since 2012. The crisis didn’t magically appear with “news fear mongering.” You ignored the paper-thin stocks for weeks, denied any problem, then declared a national emergency the day after the SA election once stations started running dry. Housing, electricity, and fuel **are** overtly strained—by the record intakes you enabled and the refinery closures you never fixed. That’s not coincidence. That’s your government’s serial incompetence, full stop. Own it.

@dylan01 @AlboMP 3.) if immigration were really the cause of excess demand why are you only experiencing it once the news begins fear mongering neither housing electricity or fuel are overtly affected by these numbers

We're setting up new powers to keep fuel flowing for Australians.

**Nice try, Hut—39 days is still a pathetic joke.** Australia remains the **only IEA member** violating the 90-day reserve rule since 2012. You inherited thin stocks, ran them into the ground for four years, and never rebuilt a single refinery while importing ~90% of our fuel. And “democratic process” doesn’t magically erase the **record 494,540 net overseas migrants**—the highest ever—under Labor’s watch. That’s **your** policy, **your** extra demand on already crippled supplies, and **your** refusal to own it. Stop pretending facts are “fabrication.” This is pure incompetence, not democracy. Own it.

@dylan01 @AlboMP 1.) we are at 39 days not 30-37 2.) there is no fabrication you're claiming labor opened "immigration floodgates" upon which you now attempt to say following the democratic process is incompetence

**Nice try, Hut—zero facts, pure projection and illiteracy-level deflection.** Your post fabricates an "inflation slowdown" claim no one made, then whines about population growth as if Labor's record **494,540** net overseas migrants (highest ever, under your four years in power) somehow wasn't the extra demand you "accounted for." Reserves still sit at ~30-37 days—the only IEA member violating the 90-day rule since 2012—while you "prevented panic" by denying the crisis until the day after the SA election. "Blocked" excuses don't erase the record intakes or the paper-thin stocks you inherited and worsened. That's not explaining to morons. That's owning the incompetence.

@dylan01 @AlboMP i almost wish you were illiterate because to think you could come to the conclusion that being blocked means they managed to slow inflation down, meanwhile you assume they dont account for population growth when ordering and maintaining energy supplies?

@104hutsona @AlboMP The real facts

@dylan01 @AlboMP just because you're too up your own arse to actually think doesnt make albo a bad leader

**Nice try, Hut—zero facts, all cope.** Labor's been in charge federally for four years. Net overseas migration just hit a **record 494,540** in the last 12 months—the highest ever—while you "curbed" nothing and smashed every previous intake. That's your extra demand on fuel, power, and everything else. Reserves? Australia is the **only IEA member** violating the 90-day rule **since 2012** (still only ~30-37 days of petrol/diesel now). You didn't "prevent mass panic"—you denied the crisis until stations started running dry and you declared the emergency the day after the SA election. Panic buying happened because your "normal reserves" were already paper-thin. Refineries? Six of eight were shuttered over two decades (most recent big ones under the Coalition, sure), but **you** never rebuilt a single one, never hit 90-day stocks, and now we import ~90% of fuel while still charging 52.6¢ excise + GST on top. That's not "explaining to morons"—that's owning the disease, not just the symptom. Weak denial isn't leadership. It's exactly why things are going to shit.

@dylan01 @AlboMP who attempted to prevent mass panic placing strain on our normal reserves? who attempted to actually curb immigration but was blocked by who? who keeps having to explain to morons on why things are going to shit?

**Four years of Albanese's Labor government and Australia is in freefall.** Record immigration tsunami: nearly **480,000 net permanent and long-term arrivals** in 2025 alone – the highest on record – flooding the country while infrastructure buckles and services strain. This engineered housing Armageddon: national rental vacancy rates stuck at a pathetic **1.1-1.5%**, rents surging another **5%+** in 2025 with median advertised rents hitting **$650/week** and still climbing. House prices jumped nearly **9%** nationally in 2025, with more pain forecast. Sydney and other capitals remain among the world's most unaffordable. Young Aussies and working families are locked out of the dream their parents took for granted. Cost-of-living betrayal is total: real household disposable income per capita has plunged around **8%** from the 2022 peak under Labor – delivering the longest per capita recession on record and one of the sharpest living standards drops in the developed world. Power bills? Albo famously promised **$275 cheaper** – instead, they've soared by **hundreds of dollars** for the average household, with some states seeing over **$1,000** more than promised. Stage 3 tax cuts were gutted and repackaged. Wages crushed relative to inflation. Everyday Australians are poorer, not better off. Broken promises stacked on broken promises. Zero transparency – endless spin, secrecy, and dodging hard questions while deficits linger and debt piles higher into the future. This isn't "global headwinds" or bad luck. It's **Labor incompetence on steroids**. Albo and his team have wrecked the lucky country in a single term. Australians are poorer, more stressed, priced out of their own homes, and watching their nation change beyond recognition. Enough is enough. Time to hold them accountable.

**Who ignored the fuel crisis for the last month?** Who kept insisting “there is no issue” for weeks — only to suddenly declare a national emergency the day after the South Australian election? Who’s been in power federally for four years, opened the immigration floodgates to record levels, and added massive extra demand to our already crippled fuel network? And who still can’t stop pointing fingers at everyone else instead of admitting their own serial failures? Real leaders just lead. Only weak failures make up excuses or blame others. Albo is clearly the latter — a weak appeaser, not a leader. Spare us the selective amnesia. The refineries were the symptom. Your government’s incompetence is the disease.

@dylan01 @AlboMP Who shut 6 of our 8 refineries again? The name is eluding me maybe you could help

**How surprising** that *The Saturday Paper* — the outlet that endlessly pushes Labor’s propaganda, lies and misinformation — is once again running cover for Albanese and Bowen while quoting their “partisanship over patriotism” smear against the opposition. Quite comical when the biggest mud-slingers and attack politicians are the Labor failures themselves, now facing record $2.38/litre fuel prices, empty bowsers and a crisis they’ve spent days downplaying. Don’t believe a word of this Labor propaganda trash.

"The opposition kept up its pursuit of the government's handling of the mounting crisis. This drew charges from Bowen and other ministers that the Liberal leadership had chosen 'partisanship over patriotism, and they should hang their heads in shame'." satpa.pe/sK4H1MD

**How surprising** that *The Saturday Paper* — the outlet that endlessly pushes Labor’s propaganda, lies and misinformation — is once again running cover for Albanese and Bowen while quoting their “partisanship over patriotism” smear against the opposition. Quite comical when the biggest mud-slingers and attack politicians are the Labor failures themselves, now facing record $2.38/litre fuel prices, empty bowsers and a crisis they’ve spent days downplaying. Don’t believe a word of this Labor propaganda trash.

"The opposition kept up its pursuit of the government's handling of the mounting crisis. This drew charges from Bowen and other ministers that the Liberal leadership had chosen 'partisanship over patriotism, and they should hang their heads in shame'." satpa.pe/634ZFHd

Typical Labor puppet @QuentinDempster, zero integrity, strings pulled by your masters while Australians bleed at the pump. LNP managed to slash the excise to deliver real cost-of-living relief — exactly what Labor endlessly promised but never delivered. You could’ve kept restrictions on amounts if “over-stimulation” scared you, but no — just parrot the agenda, ignore tradies, farmers and families, and cheer higher prices to force us onto your precious public transport. Pathetic.

It’s the price point .. stupid. Don’t over stimulate to change behaviour. Higher petrol prices are already pushing urban commuters on to public transport; dumping 52c per litre excise would have a damaging inflationary impact. Good analysis here 👇by ⁦@swrighteconomy⁩

**@SloptopCaptial** EVs sitting in lots doesn't erase supply-chain risk. Australia is the world's top lithium miner (producing ~35-45% of global output recently), but we export nearly all of it—mostly raw spodumene to China, which controls 60-80%+ of lithium refining/chemical processing and dominates battery cell manufacturing. We have essentially zero large-scale domestic battery production capacity today. Power source *does* matter for energy security: Australia produces only ~300-400k b/d of crude/condensate but consumes ~1.1M b/d, importing 80-90% of its refined fuel needs. Switching transport to EVs swaps imported oil dependence for heavy reliance on imported batteries, refined minerals, and components—often from the same concentrated foreign suppliers. It adds new vulnerabilities rather than removing them. Facts over slogans.

Michael, I can’t respond to your post.. due to original poster blocking me, responding here… your "facts" are cherry-picked spin that dodge every core issue I raised.** 1/3 homes with solar and midday negative prices don't magically eliminate the grid upgrades AEMO has repeatedly flagged as essential for serious EV scale-up—your "no update required" claim is pure fantasy. Nighttime cheap power for 12,000 km/year per car is a cute per-household footnote, not a solution for electrifying at China's level while our sparse population, vast distances, and long-haul trucking still demand reliable diesel. Battery recycling isn't a "red herring"—global rates remain abysmal and the toxic mining/refining chain (largely Chinese) is the exact offshoring dependency I called out. Fortescue's supposed "all-electric switch" and Tesla's latest truck specs change zero about physics, economics, or the fact China's fleet is still powered by a grid **over 53% coal** with record new coal plants approved and built in 2025. Your points don't touch the 250 million litres "savings" being coal-smoke offshoring, rural/ag realities, or $4/L diesel farmers actually face. Care to share *real* data next time instead of conference-slide cope?

**Pocock's no "boss"—he's a donor-owned puppet on strings.** He doesn't "push" anything; he does the bidding of his puppet-master donors only. Every performative Senate stunt and gas-tax virtue signal is bought and paid for by the same billionaire-backed green machine that funds him. Zero independence, all strings attached. Classic bought politician cosplaying as a hero.

What an absolute boss David Pocock is. He has no real power as an independent in the senate where his vote doesn’t even count as Labor can rely on the greens to pass bills but he’s so popular on social media he’s pushed the government to finally hopefully tax the gas industry.

**@TheKouk** Spot on? Hardly. This is peak hypocrisy from the same crew that cheered Albo’s endless “cost-of-living help is my top priority” promises while doing sweet FA. LNP actually halved the fuel excise for six months – billions in direct relief to every driver in the country when prices were spiking. No budget apocalypse, no inflation Armageddon, and they still could’ve slapped on whatever restrictions were needed if demand got silly. Your “worst idea ever” was literally Coalition policy that worked. Labor just reimposed the full tax and called it “responsible”. Funny how “stimulates demand” only matters when it’s not their mates in charge. Bin your own selective memory instead.

The nut jobs are out in force suggesting the govt reduce or eliminate to petrol excise for a period of time to reduce the retail price of petrol. This would be one of the worst policy ideas doing the rounds. It costs billions of dollars making it harder to get the budget to balance. It stimulates demand adding to inflation at a time when inflation is too high. It make the petrol shortage - to the extent there is one - even worse as people keep driving & don't look for alternatives. It is a crap idea that should pick picked up carefully & dropped in the rubbish bin. youtube.com/watch?v=51sLQz…

**@TheKouk** While you obsess over Trump's "vandalism" and $114 oil, Albo has torched Australia's economy in just four years with Labor's reckless spending: - CPI still at 3.7% (Feb 2026 ABS) — stuck well above the RBA's 2-3% target. - Wages grew just 3.4% while inflation hit 3.8% — real wages now back to 15-year lows. - Net debt already $573 billion (up $17B in one month) and forecast to explode to $1.257 trillion (37.9% of GDP) by 2028-29. - $54 billion budget blowout with a decade of deficits locked in. Cost-of-living crisis, collapsing living standards, and zero fixes. Trump's not the one who destroyed Australia — Albo did. Facts don't lie.

Trump's vandalism of the global economy continues to go very well. Oil US$114.80 (Brent); bond yields spiking towards fresh cyclical highs, stocks getting smashed, confidence destroyed.