500billion for the military could have been spent on solar, wind, and batteries. Oh and create tons of jobs.

But nah let's bomb the shit outta people and trash the economy.

It's a weird thing, e-cars have little to do with going Green (that's public transport, trains, bicycles, escooters etc) but are excellent for energy independence and economically for balance of payments etc You'd think hawkish or fiscal Australian conservatives would be all over the push for ecars. Instead they are too busy sucking the oil tit of Saudi Arabia, Russia etal. It's beyond my understanding

Another example, Hanson bangs on about anti muslim and yet is all for buying Oil off the middle east ffs ?

performative stupidity or just outright stupidity, hard to tell sometimes.

Nawwww man. They got Venezuela now. World’s biggest oil reserves. Don’t need the Middle East any more!

What do you mean Infrastructure? It just comes out of the ground right?

Like fighting over a dwindling stash of AoL discs with “1 free month” codes for dialup.

Okay, forget the timeline, what is the objective!

It doesn't really bother me, high energy prices push people further towards renewbles (see South Australia)

Same thing with oil prices, higher petrol prices at the pump, more EV adoption

The impact of energy prices on electric vehicle adoption: From a perspective of consumer expectations

Empirically, the study quantifies the relative influence of gasoline prices, which are found to have a significantly larger impact—approximately 3.5 to 6 times greater than electricity prices—on consumer adoption behaviour.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825000073

It's sadly a balance for me, higher prices give Russia more money but also encourage EV adoption, lower prices give Russia less money but slow adoption