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As if anyone needed further convincing that she is anything but a witless bellwether of the Current Thing, odious Swedish doom-goblin Greta Thunberg is suddenly demanding oil shipments. This is the same tiny-brained adolescent, remember, who just a few years ago was bellowing that we must all stop using fossil fuels.
‘If we don’t end fossil fuels, it will be a death sentence,’ used to be the mantra. No ifs, no buts. Immediately. No delay. The very future of the human race, she screeched like a particularly ghastly parrot, was at stake.
Now, she is demanding immediate shipments of fossil fuels for communists. “President Trump must allow oil imports to Cuba,” is the script she is screeching now. “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.”
Well, yes, that’s what we tried to tell you, 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.
What these past two weeks or so have demonstrated to people is the importance of hydrocarbons in our daily lives. It’s not just the price and availability of fuel at the servo; it goes well beyond this. Diesel is more important than petrol in enabling the farmers and regional communities to continue their productive activities, including getting foodstuffs to market.
The scarcity and escalating price of urea is of particular concern as farmers prepare for winter planting. For a nation that makes enough food to feed around 70 to 80 million people, it is more than passing strange that we don’t produce urea locally. We could, but the combined cost of energy (particularly gas) and labour has made urea’s production uneconomic compared with importing this essential fertiliser.
The price of oil feeds directly into construction costs, particularly through much more expensive PVC pipes.
We’re seeing exactly what the world will be like if we ‘Just Stop Oil’. Faster than any of the clowns running this circus could possibly have imagined.
Farm groups warn Australia is in danger of running out of fertiliser within weeks, threatening a “significant” hit to crops and prompting calls for urgent national action to secure and potentially ration supplies.
GrainGrowers on Thursday warned of “serious ramifications” for Australia’s grain harvests, as fertiliser suppliers said they may not be able to meet the nation’s needs beyond the short-term.
“Limited or cost prohibitive access to fertiliser and fuel could mean that some growers will not be planting a crop in 2026, taking the significant financial hit that comes with that decision,” said GrainGrowers chief executive Shona Gawel.
Not to mention the hit consumers will take when the supermarket shelves are suddenly empty. A disaster of Venezuelan proportions looms.
It’s not as if it wasn’t foreseeable, either. The sudden shortage of fertilisers and spike in natural gas prices, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, should have been a brutal wake-up call.
Should have. But the Climate Cultist cretins running the show couldn’t – wouldn’t – be told. Even now, ‘Climate Change and Energy Minister’ Chris ‘Boofhead’ Bowen is smirking and chortling his way through the impending crisis with an idiotic detachment that makes ‘Sunny Jim’ Callaghan look like Johnny Raincloud.
Our critical dependence on fossil fuels for so many things beyond just making electricity is the single biggest fact that we’ve been trying to din into the empty heads of the Climate Cult for years. To no avail.
Do you think dangerous fools like Thunberg finally get it? Of course not: she’s just brainlessly parroting whatever script is shoved in front of her.
