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While the professional ingrate rabble rousers of talk back radio, bemoan the governments lack of action on on oil pricing, does anyone above sub moronic intellect not see it as the hollow chest beating exercise that it is?
Petrol is getting dearer, "It's bloody Labor's fault, it wasn't this dear under Howard", and equally idiotic sentiments are broadcast daily, and even the sheep in canberra are bleating the same tune, morons one and all.
The facts are just that we are using too much oil, and the reserves are diminishing, hence the much quoted, "supply and demand", is the real bogeyman, not any government, be it that of the french, whose fisherman are blocking ports in protest, or the british, whose truckies are also protesting, or any of the other dozens of other nations whose evening news stories are all beginning with images of disgruntled motorists paying through the nose.
I think we better send them an email, and tell them it is all Rudd's fault.
The facts are in, we need to cut ourselves off from our reliance on oil as a cheap fuel, because it no longer fits that bill, as well as our overuse of it polluting us to death.
We should also not downplay the potential for "oil wars", we already see governments kowtowing to rogue states like the Saudis, because of their oil wealth, unless we reduce our dependence, and fast, then security issues surrounding oil will grow even more exponentially than the price.
Promoting far greater efficiency is the first step, and then the transition to renewable energies must be tackled seriously, and globally, there really is no other intellectually, or morally defensible position to take.
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