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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Just keep unwaveringly supporting America and Israel mate!

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Doesnt Australia export oil and gas?

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It exports crude oil, but has not enough refining capacity for its own consumption.

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Ah really, same as Canada, thats interesting.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I am surprised that their country isn't mostly working on Solar considering the sun hours they get and the available space.

[–] ollyroo@aussie.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

Not sure what everyone else is on about we are heavily invested in renewables now:

[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 23 hours ago

As Donald Horne pointed out in 1964, we are country of happy go lucky fools, electing mostly idiots. Nothing much has changed.

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is it that expensive to import solar pannels from China, I get that infrastructure scale batteries are expensive?

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

This is outdated - the LCOE of solar/wind+battery storage is lower than fossil methods of power generation.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And I bet companies still won't relaxe Home Office rules and still make everyone come into the office rip.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

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" ???

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Bye bye Petrodollar! Man is the us fucked.

[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 156 points 1 day ago (13 children)

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

According the the lastest polls over 110 million Americans still think Trump is great and doing the right things.

[–] juanito_the_great@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Labor won what, 33? More? Most of the one nation votes are from the liberals anyway who recently utterly collapsed.

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[–] ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Let's also add that Netanyahu is also just as, if not more responsible as well.

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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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.

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[–] metakrakalaka@lemmychan.org 49 points 1 day ago

The people profiting off of making civilization dependent on oil should be the ones to pay when oil prices go up.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

how is australian public transport? cause far as i know, only the beach parts are habited, the middle part is mostly rural.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No one goes to the middle part except rural people, which is why no one goes to the middle part

Our public transport is middling, not great, but not terrible. Mind you, if everyone started using it, it would be terrible

[–] Kaerkob@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

They are. It may be a result of the crap internet they voted to have?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's more of a plan than, "High oil prices are great for us. We're gonna make so much money."

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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wasn't this the start of Mad Max?

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