💧 David Mitchell

This is a red herring. The energy out put to charge these EV's is considerably higher then if they had just driven a conventional vehicle...

Just sighted Twiggy Forrest’s green hydrogen debacle on the ground. Massive monument to technical and economic naivety, enabled by gullible politicians. Gullible is the generous interpretation.

The median net income (ie profit) of a trust carrying on a business is $74,700. Chalmers wants to tax every cent of that at the same average rate that applies to a person with ~$0.23m taxable income. Where does his hatred of small business come from?

Fact: if you want cheaper groceries, the first step MUST be to lower energy bills. From the diesel in the tractor, to the irrigation pumps on the farm, the refrigeration in transit, the processing plants and the lights in the supermarket, energy is one of the biggest costs at every single step from production to the consumer. Yet unelected bureaucrats and politicians force inhuman net-zero policies - which are NOT saving the planet. They're sending electricity prices through the roof. And when energy costs soar, the cost of everything soars. Deliberately driving up the cost of energy raises the cost of living. The Liberal government started every economy destroying climate/energy policy.  Then the Labor-Greens government turbo-charged each policy when it was their turn. Only One Nation will scrap the climate madness, unleashing our abundant, cheap Australian coal and gas. We will restore common sense to our energy market so families, farmers, workers and industries can prosper once again. #AustraliaFirst senroberts.com/3VbKDdo

Why would people celebrate solar overtaking nuclear? Nuclear could power the whole grid for less cost and fewer resources than solar ever could (because you have to accommodate the instability of the resource).

I’m really curious why WhatsApp is so popular in 3rd world countries.

I know the left goes crazy when I post these external analyses of the ludicrous cost to Australia of changing the clouds but Net Zero Australia is a left leaning body! #climate #netzero #AUSTRALIA

We are coming for these senior bureaucrats just like we are the MPs. With the country heading towards 2 trillion in debt, every private business on its knees, the party is over for these greedy lazy fat cats who are drunk on taxpayer blood.

FTC exists for the exact same reason that the GST exemption exists for business, you stupid old fuckwit. It is preventing double taxation of the consumer. Every single business that uses heavy machinery off-road can claim it. I’ve never seen a single one of your ideologically retarded morons claim that we “subsidise” anything other than coal and gas. It’s not a subsidy because it is not industry or business specific. It’s good to know that leftists don’t get any smarter with age.

You don't want to burn coal, we can't build nuclear because it is regulated beyond economic sense and you don't want to burn gas when I reliables do what unreliables do. What do you propose. If you say batteries, just fuck off. Then fuck off again.

Let’s not forget that you require between 10 to 100 more mined ore for a ton of rare metals to a ton of coal. Makes a mockery of your figures,

This is basically a classical dangerous Gain of Function (dGoF) experiment. I wish the US government would shut it down. A while ago, Stacey Schultz-Cherry and I wrote a commentary (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…), that ends with this sentence:

$266 BILLION OF AUSTRALIA'S EXPORTS RUN ON DIESEL. WE IMPORT 87% OF IT AND HOLD 31 DAYS. Ask any politician what pays the nation's bills and they'll say exports. Here's what pays for the exports. Last financial year Australia exported $646.6 billion. Iron ore, coal, gold, alumina and beef were $266 billion of it, 41% of everything we sell to the world. Add gas and mined commodities are nearly half. Every tonne of ore, coal and beef is dug, hauled or farmed on diesel. Mining and its trucking use 11.5 billion litres a year, 35% of all the diesel in the country. Our biggest export, iron ore, and coal account for more than 80% of mining's diesel. Now look at where the diesel comes from. 87% is imported. South Korea alone sends 8.7 billion litres a year, then Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and India. We're the biggest diesel importer on earth, about 10% of all diesel shipped by sea. We used to make our own. In 2020 our refineries met about 42% of fuel demand. By 2025 it was 21%. BP closed Kwinana and ExxonMobil closed Altona in 2021 under the Coalition. Three more were closed between 2012 and 2015, under both sides. Western Australia, home of the Pilbara, hasn't refined a litre of its own fuel since 2021. And the buffer? 31 days of diesel nationally, by the Minister's own figure, down from 33 in April. WA's emergency stockpile is 20 million litres. Rio Tinto gave up 8 million litres of its own delivery to help fill it. In fairness, both parties let the refineries go, importing is usually cheaper, and the government has announced a $3.2 billion reserve and higher minimum stocks. But the reserve has no date, the refineries aren't coming back, and $266 billion a year of exports depends on a fuel we barely make and hold about a month of. That isn't a fuel problem. It's a national security problem. Same standard, every side. Cold Hard Facts. Corrected when wrong. No misinformation. What's your thoughts…? Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺 Sources: DFAT, Australia's top 25 exports 2024-25; IEEFA, Digging mining out of diesel dependence, Oct 2026 and Managing Australia's diesel squeeze, Apr 2026 (citing DCCEEW Australian Energy and Petroleum Statistics); Australian Petroleum Statistics, via NRMA, Mar 2026; ABC News, 24 Sep 2026; Argus Media, 10 Feb and 10 Mar 2021; NAB, 10 Apr 2026; Chris Bowen, LinkedIn, 24 Oct 2026; WA Government, 6 May 2026; Australian Mining, Apr 2026. Export totals and shares: author's calculation.

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