OG_Bananaman

Australia’s fuel crisis summed up by @RobbieBarwick Australia 🇦🇺 is the: ‘Biggest per capita diesel consumers in the world, we are the most reliant on diesel in the world’ Yet, as the charts in the video show, we don’t keep a good stockpile of it 🤦🏻‍♀️

What's so funny, Richard Marles? While the minister spoke about farmers struggling to get fuel and unsure if they can afford to plant their crops this season you were laughing in Parliament. This isn't a joke. It's hitting Australian livelihoods hard. 😠👇🏽

@DearS_o_n Rock bottom can always go MUCH lower.

To all men who survived rock bottom, what’s one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now?

Australia was not established as a nation-building project. It was established as an extraction platform. The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization. They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas. The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it. You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly. Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector. It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens. Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC. The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals. The profits get distributed to global shareholders. The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture. The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve. Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly, just not for Australians.

@DefiantLs Putting a camera in the hands of the ignorant was a very poor decision.

"White people have never built their own houses, farm their own farms, worked manual labor in the history of the US."

Stick to the facts champ, Trump is not solely (or even primarily) to blame.  • Australia has been structurally non-compliant with the IEA’s 90-day oil stock obligation since March 2012 (under the Gillard Labor government, 5 years before Trump took office).    • As of December 2025 / early 2026, Australia holds ~49 IEA days total (well below 90), the lowest of any IEA member. This is not a new issue caused by any single US president.   • The Fuel Security Act 2021 and Minimum Stockholding Obligation (MSO) – Australia’s actual domestic reserve rules – were passed after Trump left office (enacted under Morrison, commenced under Albanese). They only require industry to hold ~24–32 days of key fuels, not 90.  Australian governments (both sides) have repeatedly cited cost as the reason for not building larger reserves. The shortfall is the result of domestic policy choices over more than a decade, not US presidential action.

@RositaDaz48 Look at this dumb flog, fawning over America like Trump didn’t cause this mess. Fucking clown 🤡🤡🤡

TRUMP SAYS “GET YOUR OWN OIL.” 35 NATIONS SCRAMBLE! That wasn’t a throwaway line. That was a warning. Now look at this. Australia scrambling into emergency talks. Penny Wong meeting with 30+ nations. Trying to figure out how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. And the United States? Not even in the room. Let that sink in for a sec. The world’s most critical oil chokepoint is shut. Prices are spiking. Supply chains are tightening. And Australia is sitting in a virtual meeting… hoping diplomacy fixes what regime change created. Meanwhile Donald Trump already said it: “Get your own oil.” In other words, don’t rely on us. Don’t expect rescue. Don’t assume America will carry the weight like it always has. And suddenly the illusion breaks. Because thanks to our government Australia doesn’t have its own oil security. We don’t have the reserves. We don’t have the refining capacity. We don’t have a backup plan. So when Hormuz shuts… We don’t just watch the crisis. We are thrown into it. At the pump. On the shelves. In the cost of keeping the country running. This isn’t just a foreign policy moment. It’s a big Aussie wake-up call. Because if the message from America is “you’re on your own”… Then Australia better start doing something about it. #MikeFoster

@RositaDaz48 It’s a fantastic ploy to shine a light on the inept literal ‘actors’ who are masquerading as politicians in Western nations. It’s a very bold strategy - let’s see how it plays out. Hopefully, a deep slumber will be broken for some.

@DavidCrisafulli FYI: x.com/thomassowell/s…

We’re being nudged towards EVs, because Aussie electric vehicle uptake hasn’t been anywhere near enough for the people who’ve forgotten they serve us, not the other way around. They want us in cars that can be deactivated at their direction. Don’t fall for it & don’t be sucked in by slippery politicians with policies too good to be true.

Australia must drill, refine and store fuel - never again can we be where we are today.

@RestoreBritain_ @englishexit @orlaminihane @kezia_noble seems to have the same patronizing smug face as @jessphillips Not a great look to be honest. Reform = Recycled

Nigel Farage labelled the independent Rape Gang Inquiry founded by Rupert Lowe a ‘waste of space’. Restore Britain’s @orlaminihane debated a Reform candidate over that abhorrent insult. This clip is worth watching.

STOP CALLING THEM “ELITES”! THEY’RE PARASITES!

Albanese told us come together, and not be greedy with fuel. BUT HE USED 25,000 OF JET FUEL TO GO TO THE FOOTBALL. Just fuck off you greedy bastard.

Australians watching PM Albanese’s speech tonight.

We ask the same questions…. 🤷🏽‍♀️

If you comply with any form of fuel lockdown now, you're signing up for climate lockdowns and travel restrictions tomorrow. Make it clear, we won't be locked down in ANY way. Their faliures cannot come at the cost of our freedoms.

@j0ker937 When people complain when they pay the bill that the tradie “only took 5 minutes” to complete the job, they’re generally forgetting that they’re paying for the amount of experience & practice behind him, not necessarily for the time he spends working on the job for them.

He makes this look so dang easy when it isn't.

@pnwguerrilla This seems so incredibly true tbh.

For everyone who asks “How do i wake up my family and friends?” You don’t. If people are still asleep to what is going on, it is willful ignorance.

@DrewPavlou People need to take lessons in sarcasm, some responses to this post prove it 100%.

A lot of people criticising Albanese’s national address but I disagree. The Australian people simply had to hear our great leader’s voice for reassurance today.

@OG_Bananaman @DavidCrisafulli EVs = 15 minute cities

@IMPERATORAUS Mosaic regreening of the uninhabitable would be the best thing to consider. The amount of livable space freed up would be astounding.

Forget Mars. We need to start terraforming the Australian interior and turn our beautiful nation into a global superpower. We have the room, the resources, and are in the perfect geographic location.

@OneInALoft I wrote a screenplay based on a story circa 1992 - this is the song I chose for the final scene. Banger.

One hell of a track to end the night back in the day 💊