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"A $4 million feasibility study. A $15 billion ‘fuel security’ package. And a
refinery that, if built, won’t open until the 2030s — announced the same week
the Iran war pushed oil prices soaring again.
A refinery study isn’t fuel security. It’s a 20th-century reflex to a
21st-century problem, and it looks a lot more like what fossil fuel lobbyists
wanted than what Australia needs.
Most of the world has already made its choice. Asian manufacturers, especially
China, are mass-producing electric vehicles and trucks fast enough to define
the next global economy, and oil’s grip on land transport is breaking in real
time.
The oil death spiral is well underway in the world’s largest car market.
Australia is choosing, instead, to argue about how much crude to keep in tanks.
Isn’t there something better that we should be doing than ensuring we have full
tanks of diesel and petrol?
We acted to remove coal from our power grids. Why can’t we remove oil from our
cars, trucks and trains? Every EV charged on Australian sunshine is one less
vehicle held hostage to a war in the Gulf or a blockade in the Strait of
Hormuz. The reform task isn’t storing more oil — it’s exiting it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
