Hey! Now you know what it's like reading about American politics all the time! 🌈

Did you know Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world!

More specifically, Cape Grim in northwest Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world. According to the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, the strong winds that blow in from the Southern Ocean near Antarctica help keep the air pure and free of pollutants. So take that much-needed "breath of fresh air" to a new level by heading down to Tassie and inhaling the cleanest air on Earth!

All I care about is that I’m now expected to surrender myself to the machine

What?

sorry I assume it always has cheese in it since I love me Margherita Pizza's!

Fixed it up :)

I too have Solar & Battery, with an EV landing in October.

Good man 💪

We wouldn’t be doing this to be “subsidising” individual ICE use, but rather to ensure that industries that can’t readily electrify - such as farms still having diesel for their tractors, harvesters, combines to keep growing our food; for commercial trucks to be able to transport these critical goods across our great wide nation; to keep planes in the air, connecting us to the rest of the world; for national security, ensuring that when hostilities escalate overseas, we will be able to keep the wheels turning.

Yeah I'm saying if we have 12 months worth of fuel reserves for these purposes since the overwhelming majority of cars are EV's what's the point of having our own refining? it's just pouring money down the drain waiting for an exceptional black swan that will likely never come

Also all of those things, from tractors, harvesters, combines etc should be moving towards electric, planes are moving towards Sustainable Aviation Fuel

tbh if the only people still relying on oil in 10-20 years time is planes and some old farm equipment it would surprise me if 90 days of fuel reserves wasn't enough anyway

The facility can be run on a skeleton crew normally, providing a reliable base-load volume while having the ability to ramp up refining volumes as circumstances require.

But then what's the point of the fuel supplies and secondly why aren't the businesses themselves keeping their own stock piles?

Why should I, humble citizen, fully kitted out house with Solar+Battery+Heat Pump+EV have to subsidise people and companies who refuse to electrify and instead rely on recycled dinosaur bones?

Even in an ideal world where every Australian commuter vehicle is an EV, we would still need our own ability to process and refine oil into aviation fuel, diesel for farming/trucking, and probably a few other vital resources that I’m forgetting.

yep but if everyone in Australia had an EV our current 3 months worth of fuel supplies would be like 12 months+

At what point is keeping unprofitable fuel processing for a minority of users a waste of tax payer money?

Did you know there's an ancient seagrass meadow off Western Australia?

In Shark Bay, a single clone of seagrass called Posidonia australis has been growing uninterrupted for roughly 4,500 years. It sprawls over 180 square kilometres underwater, yet genetically it's just one plant. For context, it started sprouting around when the Great Pyramid was being built, and it's still out there doing its thing.