And I hope everybody in Australia blames the right people for this. Yes, this is a very fucking stupid decision by a very fucking stupid president of the United States, but it’s all those red hat wearing motherfuckers in the United States that put him in power. In this particular instance, general Americans are the fucking idiots that are responsible for this shit.
Also the “red hat” motherfuckers in australia that kept australia so dependant on fossil fuels when it has some of the best natural resources for wind and solar power.
Indeed and ONP just won 4 seats in South Aus,
They could’ve voted Green who have been pushing for dental in medicare, taxing billionaires, better public transport and renewable but instead they vote ONP, led by an another illiterate orange moron, flown around by a billionaire who is oft seen visiting Mar-a-Lago.
We should be asking wtf is wrong with Australian voters.
Labor won what, 33? More? Most of the one nation votes are from the liberals anyway who recently utterly collapsed.
And gas.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel
(We steal the gas from our neighbours)
And uranium
Their fossil power is mostly coal though, so not really affected by this.
I was mostly referring to the lack of transport electrification.
thanks, turnballs.
Let’s also add that Netanyahu is also just as, if not more responsible as well.
Pinky and The Brain of geopolitics right there.
“Bibi, what are we going to do this year?”
“Same as we do every year, Trumpy. Try to take over the world!!”
“Narf!”
Except neither is a genius and both are insane.
That works for the song beautifully. Well done.
Indeed. Fuck that cunt as well.
Ghislane probably made tapes of him too. Bibi is a face.
Like all western societies, australians have their own flavor of red hats and a rich variety of home grown fascists. They love networking internationally (and then call us globalists). Blame and shame them.
Like all western societies, australians have their own flavor of red hats
That has nothing to do with being a western society. I’m pretty sure that China, India and Somalia have it too. Maybe named differently, and with Chinese Supremacist instead of White Supremacist groups, but pretty similar. It’s just something that exists in each human society. It’s called Chauvinism btw.
Everything you said is true, but I hope more people are seeing the US as the canary we are in the realm of right wing politics. The cancer is spreading and getting more control around the world. Everyone should look at how the US has fallen under the Trump regime and what not to do. That’s not to say that the US was doing great things outside of Trump, but this is certainly worse for the citizens of the US and the cascading effects are clearly having a negative effect on much of the rest of the world.
Personally I think the canary was Britain with Brexit, but I grant you that unless one has lived there for a while it’s hard to really understand the politics of it all since due to their cultural favored image style, the Fascists in England are sleazy posh types kniffing others in the back rather than loud, obnoxious types punching others in the gut.
As I see it, America’s Iran is the violent and loud country version of Britain’s Brexit.
And plenty in my country would still vote for him a 4th time.
And we can’t forget blaming Albanese for his pandering to Trump every step of the way. Even today the spineless coward still won’t blame America for this.
Show me any pandering. It will no doubt surprise you to discover that international relations is a slow and careful game. I think Albo has done an excellent job keeping us out of the whirlpool of shit that Trump has caused.
Are you kidding? Tell me who has been our diplomat to the United States since albo was elected, and since trump was. How they haven’t been fired and have not bent over for trump like so many others.
This is perhaps the silliest thing I’ve seen posted to reddit, it’s actually frustrating lol
I voted for kevin07 and he’s done nothing but shit on trump Chad style.
Get outta here lmao
According the the lastest polls over 110 million Americans still think Trump is great and doing the right things.
I would argue that the people on the left who were infighting and telling others not to coconut vote, lead to an orange in power.
Anyone on the left saying that ‘both sides are the same’ or that biden was ‘genocidal’ can now enjoy the alternative - which is worse.
Well done you did it. You blew it up. You maniac leftists are unanimous your hate for the left and the right welcomes your hatred.
Those crazy leftists, why couldn’t they just be okay with dead Palestinian children. It’s the leftists fault!
Cool so now trumps in power and you get dead Iranian children.
I am surprised that their country isn’t mostly working on Solar considering the sun hours they get and the available space.
Don’t get me started, we could be world leaders in renewables, if our politicians weren’t funded by mining billionaires and our media wasn’t heavily controlled by Murdoch
Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.
Not sure what everyone else is on about we are heavily invested in renewables now:
What are the colors other than coal?
I’m glad to see coal in decline 😉
All the data for the national energy market is public: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
I assume its energy storage problems, and its not efficient enough to import solar and the large amount of batteries required from China yet.
Maybe if Australia keeps increasing its coal exports to China the price will come down as energy prices fall in China.
Is it that expensive to import solar pannels from China, I get that infrastructure scale batteries are expensive?
Total cost of power its very expensive. When you see how cheap solar is that’s just the panels, you then have to deal with the intermittency, and the backup power generation for the periods where performance is degraded.
This is outdated - the LCOE of solar/wind+battery storage is lower than fossil methods of power generation.
Have a reputable citation?
Here’s why renewables are expensive, which takes all costs into account for 100% uptime of power, without brownouts.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544222018035
Most studies ignore a lot of cost.
That study is a massive dumpster fire, and most certainly not a reputable citation
Do you have a study then, dont just come and take a shit.
I want the study to include storage, and maintenance obviously, and any backup power required for 100% grid reliability.
As Donald Horne pointed out in 1964, we are country of happy go lucky fools, electing mostly idiots. Nothing much has changed.
The people profiting off of making civilization dependent on oil should be the ones to pay when oil prices go up.
Just keep unwaveringly supporting America and Israel mate!
Regardless of whom he supports, the oil prices are still going to stay up for him, since he has no production of his own to compensate.
If America and especially Israel were treated as pariah states, this shit would’ve been less likely to happen.
As it so happens Australia is one of their biggest cheerleaders.
Doesnt Australia export oil and gas?
It exports crude oil, but has not enough refining capacity for its own consumption.
Ah really, same as Canada, thats interesting.
Wasn’t this the start of Mad Max?
The first mad max is sick AF. Hella 80s.
70s
True!
Bye bye Petrodollar! Man is the us fucked.
Kick the seppo cunts out of Pine Gap.
Based but gets yourself into trouble pilled
Everyone on the Boy Boy YT channel is probably monitored 24/7 now lol
Now? Only now?
That’s more of a plan than, “High oil prices are great for us. We’re gonna make so much money.”
1)secure oil
2)people say it’s not profitable
3)???
4)it’s profitable
is public transportation actually good in Australia? as in, you can actually do your daily living with it? (work, school, shopping, etc)?
Australia is big, but Sydney, when I was there a million years ago had very good public transportation with a single card that got you access to buses, ferries etc…
…good to know!
I used to be an avid user/defender of public transportation (in Canada). Used it for 15 years (11 of which I actually had a car but did not use for daily commute)
But then it was ruined… literally a 13 Km commute (less than 10 miles if you are American) would mean 1.5 hours in a bus EACH WAY, vs 45 mins by car (which is still a travesty for such a short commute)
Now I am lucky to work from home most of the time and commute with an eScooter when the weather allows me to
Were you on the Scarborough line before it was dismantled?
no, Ottawa area… buses were terrible leading up to the LRT opening and after the LRT opening was a disaster (one that they are still recovering from) the buses became unusable
Ah, I didn’t use the buses on my visit to Ottawa. We did use the VIA Rail from Montreal and made sure to have a Beavertail before we left your fine city though.
*Sydney
Hah, whoops… I blame my phone
In capital cities, it’s…reasonable. Takes too long to get from A to B, but you can do it, usually.
In regional areas, generally not great.
Australia is heavily car centric for the most part.
Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good public transport. Unfortunately they’re compensating for everywhere else, which has some truly fucking awful public transport. Looking at Adelaide in particular but I know others are also shit.
As with anything it’s even more “it depends”. Melbourne busses are slow an unreliable, the vast majority of tram routes share roads with cars and get stuck behind them making them painful in busy periods, and the train network is primary built around the idea of getting white collar workers from the suburbs to the city in the morning and back out again in the evening.
For example, without a car the 10-15 minute trip to drop the kiddo off with their grandparents would be over 90 minutes. It’s less than 10km but because we’re on different train lines it’s require either going all the way to the city and out again, or a train and a bus that runs 3 times a hour with no timing connection to the train.
I’ve been living in Melbourne for ~10 years and don’t own a car. The public transport and bike infrastructure around where I live is pretty good.
If I need to move house or something like that there’s a car share service that has vans you can hire by the hour.
Interestingly the State Government here has made all public transport free for the month of April. They only announced it late last week. LINK.
Ooh, thanks for the tip re free PT! I used it heavily while it was free over Chrissie, and then avoided it when Myki fares went up in February. Looks like I’ll be doing a lot of daytripping this month!
I also ditched car ownership over a decade ago. Plenty of trains/trams/buses to get me places, my neighbourhood is very walkable (groceries and other retail store, GP, post office, library, laundromat, restaurants and cafes, even a cinema within walking distance), and there’s car share services for the odd occasion where I need it.
that sounds pretty amazing!
Definitely not in Brisbane. Our public transport feels completely forgotten about. The only form I have access to is a bus and the closest bus stop I would have to walk to is over 2km away. I don’t live in the middle of the city or anything but the area is well established and there is basically no infrastructure to provide basic public transport to people.
This whole fuel shit show will likely be awful and probably expensive.
It’s only good if you live in walking/driving distance from a train line or bus way. Assuming the destination is also walking distance on the other end.
IIRC, Melbourne is one of the very few cities in the world that didn’t demolish its streetcar network in the 1950s, so there’s that.
I’m such an idiot, I thought being halfway across the world from this orange pedo would keep me shielded from his shenanigans. I was so wrong, this one man has messed up the entire world. Why is allowed to live still? I abhor violence but I also understand when an exception (or two) have to be made
And I bet companies still won’t relaxe Home Office rules and still make everyone come into the office rip.
Won’t someone think of the
"e s s e n t i a l
i n d u s t r i e s" ???
The future is a Cunt, right? But we’re all right Cunts on the bus!
Wait, is that the Aussie version of bozos on this bus?
This title is bullshit. Not a fair summation of what was said at all.
“The prime minister sought to assure Australians it was still business as normal but said workers should consider taking public transport to conserve fuel supplies for those who didn’t have the option.”
Is he really this stupid???
I’m in the usa, and I even know there are already extensive fuel shortages in Australia. Mostly due to Australia’s refusal to keep the required 90 strategic reserve or have any refineries.
PS: Yes I know this is all trump’s fault, but Australia and New Zealand seem to have just refused to prepare for the inevitable.
fuck off seppo
His party did try, but the voters weren’t a big enough fan of that idea apparently. So bringing stupidity into the equation would probably just offend voters smart enough to realise that much.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/labor-calls-for-national-fuel-reserve/u5cjwpc36
South Africa dodged a similar problem, our last president sold our 90 day reserve to his Dubai buddies below market rate. Fortunately our new multiparty government has competent people in place that fixed that before this crisis. Thus our fuel price is “only” going up by 15%, rather than tracking the oil price. It will go up more eventually, but some buffer is being provided for to soften the blow.
I am very surprised that australia and new Zeeland did not have bigger reserves, given they are on the end of a long supply chain and conflict in indonesia and china can cut off supply for a long time, not the mention a middle east crisis.
I am very surprised that Australia and New Zealand did not wean themselves off fossil fuels decades ago, given they are developed countries with wealth and skills and democracy.
Like most countries the conservative parties fight tooth and nail to stop any sort of renewable power or electrification and Australia had its own glut of Red hat morons over the last 16 or so years.
Yes. And despite that, one in three Australian homes now has rooftop solar.
Renewables supplied over half the national grid in Q4 2025, with roughly 7 GW of new capacity added that year alone. Nearly 200,000 home batteries were installed in the second half of 2025.
One in three new vehicles sold now has some form of electrification, with hybrids leading the shift and petrol sales dropping 10% last year.
Even heavy industry is moving. Australia already operates the world’s largest fully driverless freight rail network - Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul runs 1,700km of heavy-haul trains across the Pilbara, controlled remotely from Perth, straight from the mine to the deep-water port at Cape Lambert.
Battery-electric locomotives are now in trial on those same lines. Electrification is happening at every scale here - rooftop, road, and rail - often despite the politics, not because of it.
Some of the downstream processing infrastructure is already there, we just needed one more push. Hopefully this is it.
Time to stop exporting the raw goods (coal, steel, gas, hydrogen, lithium etc) offshore and then buying it back. Time to actually process it here and use it.
I’d like to think Trump is actually doing the world a favour by showing us what a fair weather friend America really is. His doctrine of America first may force the rest of the world to stop depending on America entirely.
Wow the Australian government has failed it people too.
The American government failed the Australian people.
They put too much faith in allies that don’t care about anyone.
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Probably, but it’s not like they could do much about it.
