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Businessman Kerry Packer once described then-ABC Chair Fred Hilmer as “the most educated fuckwit I ever met”. Apparently Packer never met anyone from the Albanese cabinet. Especially ‘Climate Change and Energy Minister’ Chris “Boofhead” Bowen. Bowen has a degree in economics, believe it or not. But, then, he studied under a literal Marxist economist, which is somewhat like learning about surgery from an Aztec priest.
So, maybe Bowen isn’t a complete moron, but he sure gives a convincing show of being one. Maybe he’s just half-arsing at being a moron, which is, if anything, even worse.
Bowen is, of course, responsible for the singular economic and strategic catastrophe that is Australia’s ‘Net Zero’ programme. That alone should disqualify him from holding a position of responsibility above being a lollipop man… although I seriously doubt any sane parent would let such a blithering idiot guide their children across a busy road.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says a massive fire at one of the nation’s two oil refineries will not trigger an immediate escalation in the national fuel security plan nor lead to higher prices at the bowser, as he backs drilling for crude oil in Australia as long as projects stack up environmentally and financially.
I rest my case.
What do people who actually know what they’re talking about say?
Energy experts are warning the fire is a major blow to the government’s aim to secure fuel supply if the Middle East war continues, predicting a hit to domestic production of petrol for at least three months, although there will be little impact on the refining of diesel and jet fuel.
Experts warned that the fire increased the risk of petrol and diesel rationing and required an even higher reliance on offshore fuel at a time of global shortages.
With the Iran war highlighting Australia’s lack of self-sufficiency, Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher said drilling oil out of Western Australia’s Bedout basin had “come very much to the top of our thinking” as long as it was supported by the government.
“What the current crisis has shown and highlighted is the importance of energy security and oil security,” Mr Gallagher said.
But Bowen is a Labor socialist. So, of course, he can’t conceive of anything as anything but a ‘culture war’.
“Some people try and drag us to a culture war,” Mr Bowen said.
Will someone just bonk this cretin over the head and see if it resets his brain, Gilligan’s Island style? Assuming, of course, there’s anything to even reset.
Meanwhile, Boofhead’s boss is reduced to going, cap-in-hand, begging for any scraps Asia might have to throw at us.
Speaking in Malaysia as part of his Asian charm offensive to prevent Australia from being caught up in export controls, the prime minister revealed an extra 100 million litres of diesel had been secured under the government’s policy to underwrite the purchase of new fuel cargoes.
The Albanese government has also helped secure an extra 250,000 tonnes of agricultural-grade urea from Indonesia.
Unlike our brain-dead elite, though, even Malaysia’s politicians aren’t about to hand over their nation’s resources wealth without taking care of their own, first.
Mr Albanese and Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim signed a joint statement to continue energy trade on a “no surprise basis”, but Mr Ibrahim made clear he would prioritise the domestic market if there were shortages. “I did express our concern on the issue of diesel because our supply is inadequate in the medium term,” Mr Ibrahim said.
“Once the domestic requirements are met, there is clearly some excess (forecast). And we (have) given an assurance that the priority will be to Australia.”
And Boofhead is still blithering on with his usual goofy nonsense.
But Mr Bowen said the nation’s fuel supply was now guaranteed until June despite petrol production to be reduced at Viva Energy’s refinery. The energy minister said the fire limiting petrol production in the middle of a global oil supply crunch was “not a positive development” nor “good timing”, but played down the prospect of it directly forcing the nation into stage three of the fuel security plan.
Stage three of the plan would likely see more comprehensive but still voluntary requests to reduce fuel through working from home, catching public transport, car pooling and avoiding air travel.
Has he tried telling everyone to wash their hands and bump elbows, as well?
Words fail me with these cretins.
