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My gut feeling is that this energy crisis will be over much sooner than many hysterical pundits are shrieking. If true, that will be great. But it’s also a missed opportunity to deliver the Climate Cult a harsh lesson – if they were even capable of understanding it.
Idiotic doom-goblin Greta Thunberg almost got it, when she published another of her parroted video-scripts, screeching for oil deliveries to Cuba. “Millions of people have been plunged into darkness by rolling blackouts, while hospitals lose power, while ambulances run out of fuel, while shelves go empty,” blustered the Foetal Alcohol Syndrome victim. Well, no shit: it’s what we’ve tried to tell you from the beginning, you dangerous cretin. Cuba right now is just a preview of what the entire world would be like if idiots like Thunberg had their way.
We are critically dependent on fossil fuels for far more than just keeping the lights on in your parents’ luxury home or charging your EV. It’s not even that when the price of energy goes up (as it has everywhere ‘renewables’ have been tried) – the price of everything goes up.
Without fossil fuels, we can’t even grow enough food to feed ourselves. Just as Cuba is previewing a world without fossil-fuelled energy, Australia is getting a harsh preview of what a world without fossil-fuelled fertilisers will be like.
Mostly because of wanton strategic negligence from successive governments, which has plumbed its worst depths under the absolutely atrocious Albanese government. These cretinous quislings couldn’t have made Australia’s strategic situation worse if they were actually doing it on purpose, which, given the amount of money they’ve taken from the Chinese Communist Party, they may well be.
Make no mistake. This is a full-blown global crisis, a crisis in oil, gas and fertiliser. It devastatingly demonstrates Australia’s vulnerability […]
Australia’s situation is intensely vulnerable and constitutes a species of the theatre of the absurd. We possess the natural resources of an entire continent, just for us, a mere 28 million people, yet our hallucinogenic, Green-dominated politics has become so self-damaging that we import the vast majority of resources we use.
And we’ve let traitors like Twiggy Forrest sell the country, quite literally, by the shipload, to the communist dictatorship he toadies to at every opportunity. And elected a gaggle of socialist morons whose only compass is throwing more of other people’s money at everything they screw up.
When Donald Horne called Australia “the Lucky Country”, it was a backhanded compliment. He meant that this was a country so rich in resources that it succeeded despite its politicians.
If only he knew…
Let’s deal with this at first principles. We’re rich because we export coal, iron ore and natural gas. Some other stuff, too, but those are the big three. Our crippling commitment to the fiction of net zero means we won’t develop any of these resources at home.
We insanely use the money we make from exporting fossil fuels to subsidise hugely expensive non-fossil fuel sources of energy domestically, but then because our economy still actually runs on fossil fuels we import vast quantities of refined fossil fuel.
Thus, we are a diesel economy. We export billions of dollars worth of coal to China. As the Page Research Centre’s brilliant new report, All at Sea: Fuel, War and Australia’s Achilles’ Heel, points out, we could easily make the diesel in Australia but we choose to import it.
Unfortunately, our political class is almost entirely captured by the delusional Climate Cult.
China burns hundreds of millions of tonnes of coal a year to make diesel out of coal. We don’t do that ourselves because it produces a lot of emissions.
At least one Australian company believes it could do it with much lower emissions, but governments won’t go near any research on technology like that because of our net-zero commitments and obsessions.
At much lower levels of emissions, we could make diesel from gas. We are always going to be a diesel economy. There’s no substitute.
And the simple fact remains that fossil fuelled energy and fertilisers are at the base of our entire societal pyramid. Yet, we’re allowing an elite cult to chip away relentlessly at that base.
This is especially so for artificial fertilisers, which are central to agricultural production and based on hydrocarbons.
The fertiliser itself is now much more expensive. The cost of transporting it is much more expensive. Some farmers, therefore, won’t plant cereals this year.
And then the Climate Cult ninnies will still blame it on ‘climate change’.
The whole world is still completely dependent on hydrocarbons. Renewable energy has added to fossil fuels but not made any significant impact in replacing them.
The Australian government’s own Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website reports: “Fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) accounted for 91 per cent of Australia’s primary energy mix in 2023–24.” The primary energy mix goes beyond just electricity generation and includes transport, mining, agriculture, industry and the rest.
This is the essential point the Cultists refuse to grasp. Just because Boomer McGreen has their (taxpayer-subsidised) solar panels and EV doesn’t mean that we’re somehow magically running on ‘renewables’.
Our economic problems are supply problems. We’re perhaps the only nation in the world that could be energy self-sufficient but has chosen not to be.
It’s enough to make a workin’ man wonder if he’s been taking crazy pills.
