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Senator Pocock is once again displaying his trademark leftist economic illiteracy.
First, he is actively misleading and deceiving the public with outright false claims.
His assertion that “large mining companies receive huge taxpayer-funded subsidies while EVERYONE ELSE pays” is blatantly false.
The road-user diesel excise applies only to diesel used on public roads. It is not paid by:
🟠Farmers using diesel in tractors and farm equipment
🟠Fishermen powering their vessels
🟠Timber workers running chainsaws
🟠Rail operators on interstate and intercity routes
🟠Factories using diesel generators for machinery
🟠Electricity generated from banks of diesel generators when renewables fail (i.e: when the sun sets or the wind is not blowing).
🟠Holiday makers going for cruise on an Ocean liner
What Pocock fundamentally fails to grasp — and this reveals his deep economic ignorance — is that not taxing something is NOT a ”subsidy”. It is simply the absence of a tax.
This is the classic leftist mindset: if you’re not paying 100% of your income in tax, you’re somehow receiving a “taxpayer-funded subsidy.”
It’s economic illiteracy dressed up as woke feel-good moral outrage.
There is a very good reason we do not hit wealth-creating industries with off-road diesel tax.
Farmers, miners, fishermen, and electricity generators using diesel are productive sectors. Slugging them with extra tax would:
🟠Place Australian industries at a serious competitive disadvantage against foreign competitors, and/or
🟠See those higher costs passed directly onto Australian consumers, driving up the cost of living.
The real argument we should be having is not about increasing taxes on productive industry.
It is this: every single cent of road-user fuel excise that goes in government coffers and is not spent on roads should be refunded to the motorists who paid it.
Once again, it’s One Nation that has the policy settings correct.
Senator Pocock should stick to what he knows — if he can find anything — and stop peddling leftist economically illiterate nonsense and misinformation that would only hurt Australian workers, farmers, and families.
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On the #clown daft scale, @robinmonotti is up there.
I♥CO2 retweeted
✋ RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU SUPPORT SACKING HOUSING MINISTER CLARE O'NEIL OVER AUSTRALIA'S HOUSING CRISIS! 🇦🇺
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🙌🔥💋😍🥰😘❤️👏🤭👇👇👇👇👇One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has officially overtaken Anthony Albanese as Australia's preferred prime minister in the latest Resolve Political Monitor released on June 14, 2026.
This historic shift marks the first time a minor party leader has surpassed a sitting prime minister in this polling metric, capitalising on widespread voter discontent over the cost of living and the federal budget.
Polling Breakdown
The latest data highlights a massive disruption to traditional major-party dominance in Australian politics:
•Preferred Prime Minister: Pauline Hanson has surged past Anthony Albanese to become the nation's first choice for the top job.
•Primary Vote Shift: One Nation has climbed 5 percentage points to a leading 29%. Labor sits at 28%, while the Coalition has crashed to a historic record low of 20%.
•Demographic Appeal: Hanson edged out Albanese primarily in marginal seats, suburban areas, and regional Australia. Her support is evenly distributed across voters born in Australia (29%) and those born overseas (28%).
I♥CO2 retweeted
The most successful grassroots funding campaign in Australian history.
Hey Albo…. The donations are real.
Here’s a screen shot of the funds being put across to the One Nation account.
Now show me yours.
Help Fire the Liar!!!
donate.onenation.org.au/fire…
I♥CO2 retweeted
Since a spate of horrific fatalities in the 1930’s shark nets have helped protect Sydney‘s beaches.
The nets don’t enclose the beach, but they send a message to sharks swim elsewhere.
And it’s worked.
But now lefty green zealots want to take them away.
What could possibly go wrong ?
I♥CO2 retweeted
Climate models predict a warmer world should produce more evaporation, more humidity and a stronger hydrological cycle.
But observations say otherwise.
A 2025 study by Ma et al shows global ocean evaporation rose until the late 2000s then declined. Over the past decade, two-thirds of the oceans show weakening evaporation, partly due to slower winds.
Another study, Simpson et al, examined humidity over arid regions. Models predict strong increases, but observed data show almost no change in 40 years. In many cases, models overestimate humidity trends by an order of magnitude.
Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere. If models cannot correctly simulate evaporation and humidity, their climate projections become next to useless.
Real-world observations continue to contradict mainstream assumptions.
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Some people suggest that while green is expensive, the benefits are much greater
Well, no:
The benefit of net-zero is $4.5 trillion/year, but the cost $27 trillion
(much larger costs and benefits, because we're currently only doing a bit of net-zero currently)
teapaw.org/BjornLomborg/status/17…
You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:
teapaw.org/BjornLomborg/status/19…
Climate campaigners tell you green is cheap
It isn't
Global green transition cost is now $14+ trillion, rising with over $2 trillion/year (2% of global GDP)
105x our spending to avoid hunger
Still, CO₂ emissions set another record last year
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What do you expect when you are governed by incompetent bumbling lying fools.
The Albanese regime is the worst in Australia’s history - their failed policies have Australians going backwards.
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The world's clean energy transition represents a colossal expansion of the world's mining industry.
To catch a diffuse energy source like sunlight or wind needs an unprecedented volume of physical machinery. A single solar farm requires roughly 30 times more total metal infrastructure than a conventional gas plant. We aren't moving away from mining; we're swapping enormous oceanic drilling rigs for vast open-cut metal mines.
The demand for heavy mining and rare earths is just as compelling as the downstream e-waste crisis, but the numbers are even more staggering. While solar cells rely heavily on high-purity silicon, silver, and copper, the broader 'green infrastructure' ecosystem demands far more.
The EV motors, wind turbines and massive national grids required to tie intermittent solar together are entirely dependent on an unprecedented surge in heavy mining and rare earth extraction.
This physical mining demand has simply exploded with the shift from conventional fossil fuel energy generation to wind and solar. Because wind and sunshine are so diluted and diffused, harvesting them requires a massive physical footprint, necessitating endless extra acres of complex machinery.
This translates into heavily vandalised landscapes and grotesque coastal settings. According to the IEA, replacing them world's fossil-fuel system with renewables increases the total volume of materials requiring extraction and handling by a factor of 10.
Solar alone is exceptionally copper-intensive, using roughly 850 kg per megawatt for intricate grid connections, inverters and cabling. Renewable energy is projected to drive 45% of total global copper demand by 2030. Yet, developing a new major copper mine takes an average of 16 years from initial discovery to first production.
The world faces a massive demand spike for a metal where the supply chain is notoriously slow, costly, and inflexible.
Solar panels don't use much in the way of rare earths, but wind turbines and the electric vehicle motors that back up the low-carbon shift are hungry for permanent magnets made from neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Processing these elements involves intensive chemical leaching that produces vast amounts of toxic and radioactive wastewater.
Compounding the problem, China controls roughly 60–70% of the extraction and up to 90% of the refining for these specific elements.
This has created a massive geopolitical bottleneck.
Image: this massive chasm is the Bingham Canyon Mine (also called the Kennecott Copper Mine) just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the largest man-made excavations on Earth and the deepest open-pit mine in the world, stretching 4 kilometres wide and more than a kilometre deep. – at Bega, New South Wales
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Utility-scale batteries are unaffordably stupid even if we only have to lease the technology from Communist China. We need reliable baseload power not a pointlessly expensive Rube Goldberg system of wind, solar and batteries. In any event, what does it say about the US when we have to lease technology from a nation that generally just steals it from us.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Calling right-wingers retarded for questioning election integrity is rich considering the vast majority of leftists believe that men who wear dresses are women.
There are intelligent and stupid people spanning the political spectrum. Leftists uniformly almost always lack common sense, take the wrong side of every 80-20 issue, and live in an imaginary world of utopia; right-wingers who don't understand how things work often think that everything is a giant government conspiracy.
The most intelligent people that I know tend to be economically libertarian and socially conservative, as they can reason their arguments better than anybody else.
Also, I thought left-wingers hated the "r" word?
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"Scientists warned about this 50 years ago." -- A New Ice Age ... longreads.com/2017/04/13/in-… ... and now Paul warns about a new hot age. Alarmism is one of the oldest tricks in the book of scams.
"Scientists warned about this 50 years ago."
Climate skeptics often present that as a dunk on climate science.
It's actually an argument for it.
In science, the question isn't when a prediction was made. The question is whether reality moved toward or away from that prediction over time.
Over the last half-century, observations have moved in the direction climate scientists expected:
• Global temperatures rose.
• Oceans accumulated enormous amounts of heat.
• The Arctic warmed faster than the rest of the planet.
• Glaciers and ice sheets lost mass.
• The lower atmosphere warmed while the upper atmosphere cooled, a fingerprint of greenhouse-gas warming rather than increased solar output.
That's not what scientific failure looks like.
That's what a prediction surviving decades of testing looks like.
Scientists didn't make a forecast in the 1970s and stop there. They gathered more data, improved observations, refined models, narrowed uncertainties, and updated projections as evidence accumulated.
That's called science.
If engineers warned that a bridge was developing dangerous cracks, monitored it for 50 years, refined their models, and eventually observed the exact failure modes they predicted, nobody would conclude the warning was a hoax.
They'd ask why so many people spent decades arguing with the engineers instead of fixing the damn bridge.
The real irony is that the existence of decades-old climate predictions is one of the reasons we can evaluate them today.
A prediction repeatedly tested and repeatedly confirmed is evidence for a theory, not evidence against it.
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January-May temperatures at Prescott, Arizona have been increasing for fifty years, with 2026 close to the record year of 1934 during the Dust Bowl.
ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/…
I♥CO2 retweeted
Warm weather is normal, cold weather is normal.
Trying to make something political out the weather, as the UN and the left do is not normal, and is a HOAX!
