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@rachelbaxendale Can’t win those war if you ask me Maybe should just confiscate people’s EVs for car share 🤣

The Victorians most adversely affected by high fuel prices don’t have access to public transport. Now their taxes will be subsidising tens of millions in free fares for those who do have the option of public transport. #springst

@bouta_nt It isn’t about price. More about conservation for those who need it. Been doing this way before it was cool. Corolla hybrid driver (don’t drive Uber / Eats)

What’s everybody’s plans for Easter? I reckon the fuel prices will affect alot of people’s plans.

@van00sa 🤣 Taxis…. Not those guys

If Australia declares a fuel emergency, here’s who gets unlimited fuel: ✅ Police ✅ Ambulance ✅ Fire trucks ✅ Prisons ✅ Buses ✅ Taxis Everyone else gets $40 per visit: ❌ Doctors driving to hospital ❌ Nurses ❌ Farmers ❌ Truck drivers delivering your food ❌ You $40 at current prices is about 15 litres. Roughly 200km. This law has existed since 1984 and never invoked.

@peters_malcolm You know people in this country are not serious people 🤣

Sensible people don’t hoard fuel. Rural people have no choice but consume fuel to get anywhere start to have their security threatened with fear of no fuel. Rocking up to a servo 80 k from home finding out there is no fuel is bloody confronting. How get home to kids, medicine etc

@SpachusAus Australian are not serious people…

What’s it like in your area? 👀 Roads busy or quiet? 🚗 Sunshine Coast is PACKED 🌴 No one’s saving fuel here… What are you seeing? 👇 #poll #fuelcrisis

@eigenrobot Shut the stuff down because easier making money holding residential property 🤣

how boned is australia rn. heard theyre queuing up rationing, is that probably going through? quite curious, seems like there are plenty of native resources and infrastructure? did they shut stuff down bc climate or do they just have the wrong refinery configuration?

@Lisa9Sophia It isn’t lock downs. It is just people to unfit to ride bicycles 🤣

Remember I said when the war started this would lead to lockdowns? Everyone laughed This is Thailand right now. A fuel and food crisis can quickly spiral, we’ve seen it unravel before During WW2 hungry people went from house to house in country Victoria offering to do chores in exchange for food. My grandparents would help them as much as they could but Australia had serious shortages Milk was often unavailable and meat and eggs were rationed. Weekly coupons only allowed: Butter: 226 grams Sugar: 500 grams Meat: 1kg Tea: 225g every 5 weeks Labor should have been acting three weeks ago, instead they gaslit us

@DanielH16577898 @DaveTaylorNews Because everyone is too lazy to ride a bike 🤷🏻

@DaveTaylorNews Why is everyone saying lockdowns. Were there lockdowns in the 70s?

Government is clearly prepping for an escalation in the fuel crisis

@DaveTaylorNews Should have prepared when the first missiles flew but you know we are just the lucky country

@DrewPavlou They need to convince their mates to divest from coal Australia isn’t a risk taking country Top 10 companies are basically 2 miners and 5 banks and Wesfarmers (coal and retail) 🤣

Australia spent approximately $680 billion on social security and welfare over the past five years. I propose that we instead spend $600 billion to build 30 publicly owned nuclear reactors - capital costs should be fully socialised by the government in the manner of Gaullist France’s nuclear program. This way you would cut the wholesale energy retail price by 60-70%, completely revitalising the manufacturing sector. Right now manufacturing is at a record low share of our GDP (5% - 130 billion). Partial re-industrialisation back toward 10–12% of GDP from 5% would add $130–180 billion in annual economic output. Manufacturing has one of the highest economic multipliers of any sector, typically 1.5–2x, because factories buy inputs, employ workers who spend locally, and create supply chains. A reasonable multiplier puts the total economic impact closer to $270–360 billion in annual GDP uplift. This creates an additional 100 billion in tax revenue each year. So it would pay for itself in under 10 years. To do this you need to create a sovereign nuclear authority with its own balance sheet, borrowing capacity, and statutory insulation from political interference. France did this with their EDF, making it structurally independent from annual budget cycles. It actually works

@jason_king72 @AvidCommentator They can walk home from the airport

@AvidCommentator Especially as they will all be cashed up.

If the war continues and it turns into the huge crisis some experts are projecting, Australia is going to see a dramatic surge in asylum applications as temporary visa holders look to avoid going home. And that is to say nothing of people arriving on tourist visas and not going home. Its time to get tough now and prepare the groundwork to deport people in large numbers, starting with the 50k+ on the list already slated to be removed and exhausted their avenues of appeal.

@AvidCommentator “Asylum from diesel shortages” we are a country who love a good joke 🤣

@ausstockchick You know what is going to happen? Everyone going to be in $3m houses with not enough super to live off in retirement. THEN the government brings in tax on PPOR, inheritance tax, land tax (so they get tax regardless of turnover) Seems like direction. I work in tax consulting.

People without assets are getting wiped out. Look at the calculation below. This guy bought a property in Adelaide for $1.5m recently. 6 years ago that same property was $750,000! So prices have doubled. The cash required to get in is up $200k. And the mortgage repayment is over 300% more… If you own assets,you ride the wave. If you don't, you're getting absolutely wiped out. #ausbiz #auspol

@matt_barrie Time to start taming those wild camels in the red centre and handing them out 🤷🏻

The answers to the questions attached are pretty Mad Max for australia

@Tablesalt13 We can ask the crews from the Sydney to Hobart to volunteer to sail there 🤷🏻

Perth, Australia is surrounded by 1500kms of desert and endless oceans in every direction There are only 3 highways in or out if the Australian fuel supply chain breaks these 2.5 million people are going to be all alone.

@PeteWargent Victoria - the indebted state 🤣 ALP nothing really ever gets done. Like Labor in the UK they just manage decline

Victoria’s “fast‑tracked” housing program — designed to bypass councils and community objections on the promise of delivering shovel‑ready homes — has produced almost no actual housing macrobusiness.com.au/2026/03/melbou…

@ausstockchick @GrimRabbitsCo_ You are immune until the money runs out

@GrimRabbitsCo_ Fair point and I did think that. But still… that demo can’t be immune 100%

Trying to make a booking for dinner in Perth tonight. Between 5-8pm all good restaurants are booked out. I don’t get it? I thought people are pleading poverty? Maybe we aren’t all broke after all? #ausbiz

@ausstockchick Panic eating. Imagine no fuel and you are stuck with the few local places. 🤣

@bowtiedstocks You need a limpy and sweaty hand shake these days. Non threatening handshake will get you into the DEI quota.

Firm handshake used to be all you needed to get a solid graduate job back in the day Now you’re gonna be subject to humiliation rituals where you have to send a 1 minute video showcasing your unique flair to HR for their amusement Adult day care

@Sauronlordking NDIS for the private sector. Only possible explanation.

This my friends ,is fucking outrageous.