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6 things Australia should do to tackle the energy crisis rather than just building bigger fuel reserves (theconversation.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/environment@aussie.zone
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If policymakers conclude the answer to fuel shortages is to simply build much larger liquid fuel reserves, they will lock Australia into a worse dependence on less reliable supplies of petrol, diesel and other liquid fuels. As geopolitical tensions increase, this reliance is foolish in the extreme.

What Australia needs isn’t bigger fuel tanks. It’s to build energy independence. A nation able to run its transport sector on its own resources is a nation better able to weather global uncertainty. The fastest and most cost-effective way to do so is to accelerate the electrification of transport, powering vehicles with electricity from renewables and storage.

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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Doesn't Australia have enormous tracks of unused land and plenty of sunshine? If only there was some kind of proven renewable energy they could use.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    We have literally every single alternative energy source in insane abundance. Consequently there have been decades of concentrated attacks to put people against them

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    They've not stopped either, the fossil fuel lobby constantly pillories Chris Bowen as the great enemy now.

    But the role out is happening quietly, but quicker than ever. The main impediment was/is the changes to the transmission systems. Its an area I'm so hopeful about for Aus, and I think now justifiably so.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Insane ay? Here’s Crisafulli talking up the power bill savings.

    Canavan telling people we need to ‘cUt NeT z3Ro’ yet that cunt drives an EV and has solar, like that other orange headed cunt of a thing working for Rinehart.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They both have EVs? Really? 😆 Ol'coalface-Canavan? Wow, such an acting queen. And now he's play acting at responsible leader. Can't wait for his role in Romeo and Juliet.

    "Oh, Romeo! Romeo! Where art thou EV?"

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Yeah it’s all bullshit and projection with them. Of course they take advantage of these things, they know they’re money savers and they get massive rebates.

    Shitty people in the truest sense they are. Canavan has personal interests in mining through his family and Hanson exists to extract whatever she can however she can.

    Same with the premier; that grub has no issues spruiking up the power saving but it’s all through renewable sources that they exist. Then goes out to fuckin Taroom in hi vis to sing something that’s long been in the works and far from any energy panacea as his government delivering a solution.

    Meanwhile we can’t keep electric cars on the shelf and China can’t sell them fast enough to us.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    so pissed covid fucked the neighbourhood battery scheme in the butt down here in Vic. It was the perfect solution. decentralisation, absorption of excess without needing to upgrade, sharing the wealth.

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