How Much Lower Can They Drag Us?

Could anything be more emblematic of just how appallingly Australia has been run into the ground by its ruling class, than by the fact that we’re relying on Japan for fuel?

Australia is a vast landmass, an entire continent ruled by a single nation, with an absolute abundance of energy resources. Coal, oil, gas, nuclear: we’ve got it all, in spades.

Japan’s oil reserves are minimal: it is ranked 78th in the world, to Australia’s 37th spot. Japan’s coal reserves are ranked 58th, to Australia’s fourth. Gas: Japan, 72nd; Australia, 18th. Uranium: Japan, 41st, Australia, first.

Yet, somehow, Australia is suddenly desperately dependent on Japan for energy.

Fuel will continue to flow from Japan into Australia under assurances given during recent talks between the two countries […]

Assistant Trade and Foreign Affairs Minister Matt Thistlethwaite confirmed earlier that he had been in conversation with a Japanese counterpart about fuel in recent days.

“I met last week with the Japanese minister and requested that supply continue,” Mr Thistlethwaite told Sky News.

“They’ve given us an assurance that normal supply will continue.”

How embarrassingly damnable is this?

Japan has 20 oil refineries: Australia has… two. Japan has 33 operable nuclear reactors. Australia has… one, solely for producing medical isotopes, not power.

Coal plants? Japan has 17, Australia has 19, most of which are falling apart because government policies have made maintenance prohibitively expensive.

This is, quite simply, embarrassing.

Yet, even while Japan is promising to save our useless arses, our pathetic clown show of a government can’t even organise a root in a brothel.

It comes as Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans a trip to Australia to discuss conditions in the Strait of Hormuz as well as rare-earth minerals, according to reports by Japanese media.

That visit would come as the region’s leaders work to shore up fuel security and supply networks.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not confirmed the visit.

“Any plans for visits to Australia from foreign leaders will be announced when appropriate,” a spokesperson said.

The only thing the socialist Albanese government can think of, in an energy crisis, is how much more tax money they can gouge out of it, to waste on their useless socialist boondoggles like the NDIS.

A document prepared by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), seen by the ABC, asked Treasury to model “new levy options” as a means of taxing windfall gas and thermal coal company profits – a policy the government has so far resisted.

It also asked Treasury to work up options for further reform of the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT), and “reforms to corporate income tax” ahead of the May budget, as ways to collect more revenue for Australians.

You mean, for grasping politicians and their voting bloc of leaners.

Australia’s petrol stations are running empty. Farmers can’t find diesel to run their machinery, or fossil-fuel-derived fertilisers to sow next year’s crops. And all the absolute idiots in Canberra can do is cook up new ways to steal other peoples’ money.

We haven’t tarred and feathered politicians for far too long.