Submitted 3 weeks ago by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to australia@aussie.zone
The new Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, has called on the federal government to consider oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
In a statement where he copied Donald Trump’s “drill baby drill” slogan, Canavan last week said that unless Australia launched new oil projects in the Bight and elsewhere, “we will always be at the mercy of unstable regions and international conflicts”.
Yes, there is simply no other way to achieve energy independence.
If the world ran out of oil tomorrow, the world would basically return to the Stone Age. Oil is used to make basically everything you use every day in one way or another, and sunlight no matter how you use it is not a replacement. Good luck making batteries without oil btw. Good luck making the car to put the batteries in without oil too.
Using oil to make things instead of setting it on fire for personal convenience would dramatically reduce the rate of consumption, effectively ending this crisis. But instead we have oil propagandists screeching about freedom to choose.
Setting things on fire is rarely the best use of a resource.
Problem is not in how many we pump, it is about refineries. And realistically there is no alternative to oil at this moment.
At this moment, but oil exploration and re-expanding our oil refining capacity doesn’t exactly happen overnight either.
I agree with you that our energy system is dependent on oil, and we’re continually kicking the can down the road on this one.
The best time to invest in a green energy future was decades ago, the second best is now.
We just have to stop waiting for the free market to do it, because it won’t do it, and if it does, it’ll be way too late.
Storage needs to be built like yesterday, even if it’s terribly unprofitable at first. Until we have that, no for-profit company will want to invest further in renewables (assuming we continue capitalism).
In any case, we need to build it (via the government), because the private market hasn’t, and won’t.
I just heard the Count from Sesame Street saying:
"Six! Six tankers cancelled! Ah-ah-ah!
Seven! Seven cancelled tankers! Ah-ah-ah!
Eight! Eight ships not allowed through Hormuz! Ah-ah-ah! "
waiting in the queue at the servo…
fuck ’ em
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Home prices going up for decades and nobody cares. Gas prices tick up in the slightest and everyone loses their minds.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Actually people have been worried about house price increases for decades.
The gas price increase effects fertiliser production.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Case and point. Talk is talk. The federal government is already taking rationing measures and lowering fuel standards. It hasn’t even been a month.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
Everyone has been caring about house prices going up, what are you talking about? People that have houses care. People who don’t have a house care.