@AlanKohler @QuentinDempster @abcnews What? If we built 10 refineries next week we would still be susceptible to fuel price variations and availability.
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jrobens
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jrobens
@jrobens
Technologist. Java integrator, web-integrator. CMS, frameworks. Nature loving without knowing why it’s not universal. Tweeting drunk. Random thought experiments
Sydney, New South Wales Katılım Ekim 2007
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This morning's column for @abcnews - how Australia ended up being hostage to fuel imports.
abc.net.au/news/2026-03-3…
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@pauliec80859931 If it takes more oil to extract the oil than you get is it really oil?
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Today, I read that Australia has 17 billion barrels of recoverable oil. It would make us self sufficient in oil for 42 years & yet we refuse to produce it. We are totally fixated with net zero and have lost sight of the big picture. For the record, if we were serious about "net zero" nuclear would be on the table. Sadly, we're a resource rich, dumb country.
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Learning about R-454b refrigerant (since R-410A and good old R-22 are illegal now). The new stuff is more toxic, more flammable, and occasionally explosive, but at least it’s less efficient. 😳
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@PaulEmbery Youth go to the climbing gym on Friday night and get ripped rather than wrecked
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When I was growing up, pubs would often be rammed until closing time (not so much during the week, but certainly at weekends). The bell for “last orders” would usually spark a rush to the bar. These days, even the most popular pubs seem to start emptying out around 8.00-9.00pm, including on Fridays and Saturdays. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? Is there a reason for it?
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In Australia, just 1% of buses are electric, compared with 80% of the urban fleet in China, a quarter in the Netherlands and 12% in the UK. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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@fictillius There have been some pretty interesting videos on how the electric buses are working better than expected from the Leichhardt Depot youtu.be/7nYKeBoX91I?si…
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@_JohnMerchant Did it work? I know of a couple of ash to block attempts that seem to have quietly disappeared.
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Are we really at this point ?
International Energy Agency@IEA
Reducing highway speed limits can help ease oil demand as markets come under pressure from the Middle East crisis. Lowering speeds by 10 km/h could cut an individual driver’s oil use by 5-10%, with more savings across light commercial vehicles & trucks: iea.li/3O2pyhZ
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Australia should be on the phone to substitute supply.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Qatar has declared force majeure on LNG contracts through May 2026, canceling obligations to customers in Italy, Belgium, South Korea, and China. Qatar is one of the world's largest LNG suppliers, accounting for 20% of global LNG production.
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@profstonge If you put more oil into an oil extraction process than you get out, is it still oil production?
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Australia has 403 billion barrels of shale oil -- 17.5 billion of which is immediately recoverable.
But it banned fracking. So now it's begging for diesel from countries that don't have a gallon to spare 🤡
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav
Australia used to have 8 refineries. Now they have 2. They import diesel and gasoline from South Korea and Singapore. With oil blocked in the Middle East, South Korea and Singapore are limiting exports of diesel and gasoline. Australia gets crushed
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Announcing gotfuel.al3x.au
The fuel crisis is bad, but not as bad as some other website make it out to be...
Tom Mitchelhill@ideacasino
@AJAllchin @MCLang88 you are free to create a better product i would actually encourage someone to do so
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@madwixxy #AngusTaylor’s answer is to decrease the federal excise which will….INCREASE DEMAND, EVEN FURTHER.
Economics degrees at Oxford must be free with the morning corn flakes.
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This little app by @simonahac compares the cost per km of the top 10 selling ICE vehicles with the top 10 selling EVs, using current petrol prices and the average charging rate over the past 24 hours.
It's both fascinating and compelling.
petrol-vs-electric.vercel.app/models
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Eraring power Station is not fatigued or near end of life,it was built and maintained when engineers not bean counters were in charge of our electricity supply , it’s been retrofitted & upgraded and will continue to operate for decades #Auspol2026
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@stationmum101 No. The distributors aren't going to run out before EG. Even then where did the distributor truck go?
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This is a terrible take.
Farmers & others who usually get bulk fuel deliveries have been told their only option is to purchase their fuel from the bowser. They’re not hoarding or panic buying they’re simply doing what they must to keep making money to pay their bills.
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@hot_rails What I want to know is who benefited? $STO 1/3 of the share price from 10 years ago. Gas gone from $3 to $12. Surely there was a winner somewhere?
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@jrobens Yes. A pipeline would arb the difference between cheap western and expensive eastern gas markets.
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Australia has plenty of gas, but most of it is in the Northwest Shelf, isolated from the populated east coast. The West-East Pipeline would unify the national market, connecting cheap WA gas to the expensive eastern states.
A 2017 feasibility study estimated construction would take two years and cost $5.8 billion, and reduce east coast gas prices by $3/GJ - a benefit of over $2 billion per year! That’s narrow peacetime benefits only, ignoring the project’s strategic value and national resilience.
If coupled with a gas-to-liquids plant in South Australia, it would underpin true liquid fuel security for a nation increasingly aware of its dependence on maritime trade.
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could have had gas security on the east coast for 45 days of running the NDIS
Hot Rails — oz/acc@hot_rails
Australia has plenty of gas, but most of it is in the Northwest Shelf, isolated from the populated east coast. The West-East Pipeline would unify the national market, connecting cheap WA gas to the expensive eastern states. A 2017 feasibility study estimated construction would take two years and cost $5.8 billion, and reduce east coast gas prices by $3/GJ - a benefit of over $2 billion per year! That’s narrow peacetime benefits only, ignoring the project’s strategic value and national resilience. If coupled with a gas-to-liquids plant in South Australia, it would underpin true liquid fuel security for a nation increasingly aware of its dependence on maritime trade.
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