Australian Politics Forum - Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves

aquascoot

Gold Member

Online

Australian Politics

Posts: 32825
Gender: male

Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves
Reply #75 - Sep 19^th, 2019 at 3:31pm

lee wrote on Sep 17^th, 2019 at 10:03pm:

Sweep S.E. Queensland
BRISBANE, August 14. -
Hundreds of square miles of drought-stricken South-east ern Queensland were aflame
tonight. From Bundaberg to the border bushfires, driven by south-westerly winds, were menacing homesteads, stations, property, stock, and army buildings and destroying the last remnants of winter feed.
The major outbreaks have been at Kilcoy, Woodford, Beaudesert, and West Burleigh. Here police, soldiers, and civilians have been unable to control thc fires, "which have burnt out thousands of acres of grass lands. Mt Archer, in the Kilcoy district, was a 1500 ft torch tonight as a fire, which began at Neurum, swept over it in the direction of
Mt Mee. Firefighters were powerless to prevent it "from spreading. Valuable forestry reserves in th« Kilcoy district are in danger. Hore than 150 firemen, police and civilians were unable to control the outbreak between Beaudesert and Tambourine on Mondootum station.
By nightfall the Beaudesert police estimated that more than 6000 acres had been destroyed and the fire wa« then sweeping on a two-mile front towards Camp Cable, which was the biggest wartime anny camp in Queensland, having been built for tbe United States army. The owner of Mondoolum station (Mr D. Fraser) ia at present in Brisbane for tbe show.
Tonight between 15 and SO police were sent from Brisbane to join forces with the firefighters from Beaudesert, Moongalpä, Tambourine and Jimboomba.
AT BURLEIGH HEADS A fierce bushfire that started near Burleigh Heads on Monday
and was beaten back on Tuesday after it had crossed the railway line at West Burleigh, broke out with renewed violence today. "

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56402614

Pretty much Lee.

I am near binna burra and the idea of building on the edge of a heavily treed steep slope is kind of nuts.

One of my neighbours, nearly every show holiday in winter , starts a fire and then heads off to the show.
One year it was burning so slowly it took 2 days to burn down my hill.
The tallest flames were all of 6 inches high.

Just let us traditional owners look after the land and kick those loopy greens to the kerb

Back to top

IP Logged

Bam Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21905 Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #76 - Apr 21^st, 2020 at 2:42pm Proof that we're being led by idiots: there's so much oil around at the moment, the producers can't even give it away. Still the idiots in the Federal Government aren't taking this gilded opportunity to replenish our reserves.
Back to top	You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to hold opinions that you can defend through sound, reasoned argument. IP Logged

Bam Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21905 Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #77 - Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 10:52am Australia has a fuel problem — and coronavirus has handed us an opportunity to fix it
Back to top	You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to hold opinions that you can defend through sound, reasoned argument. IP Logged

Captain Caveman Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6208 Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #78 - Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 10:55am Well they shut BP refinery here in QLD a few years back. Just a storage farm now....pumped over the river from Caltex refinery.
Back to top	IP Logged

Bam

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 21905
Gender: male

Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves
Reply #79 - Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 3:17pm

Federal Government to spend $94 million stockpiling fuel in the US

They're on the right track here, but fuel stockpiled overseas is useless if it cannot be delivered to Australia when needed in time or at all. The only sensible option for an Australian fuel stockpile is for that stockpile to be located in Australia.

Surely the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the shortcomings of globalisation by now? Sure, countries can trade with other countries all they want, but stockpiles of critical supplies MUST be located domestically. The current government is very slow to learn this lesson.

Back to top

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to hold opinions that you can defend through sound, reasoned argument.

IP Logged

John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 72209 Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #80 - Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 4:14pm It's ridiculous paying $94m to stockpile fuel overseas. I wonder which liberal party donor thought up that scam?
Back to top	Our esteemed leader: I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus. IP Logged

Bam Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21905 Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #81 - May 1^st, 2020 at 8:47am Australia's $94m oil purchase: Deal of the century or PR stunt?
Back to top	You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to hold opinions that you can defend through sound, reasoned argument. IP Logged

Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8432 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #82 - May 1^st, 2020 at 11:16am Hmm ... let me ponder that one for a moment .... ... ... Yeah, nah ... a PR stunt for sure. It's only a few days worth and it's stored off-shore anyway. Pretty f'n ridiculous!
Back to top	The 2025 election could be a shocker. IP Logged

Baronvonrort Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17475 Gender:	Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves Reply #83 - May 1^st, 2020 at 11:49pm John Smith wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 4:14pm: It's ridiculous paying $94m to stockpile fuel overseas. I wonder which liberal party donor thought up that scam? We don't have anywhere to store it here. Buying more while prices are low is a great idea.
Back to top	Leftists and the Ayatollahs have a lot in common when it comes to criticism of Islam, they don't tolerate it. IP Logged

Vic

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 8208
Melbourne Victoria
Gender: male

Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves
Reply #84 - May 2^nd, 2020 at 7:55am

Baronvonrort wrote on May 1^st, 2020 at 11:49pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 4:14pm:

It's ridiculous paying $94m to stockpile fuel overseas.

I wonder which liberal party donor thought up that scam?

We don't have anywhere to store it here.

Buying more while prices are low is a great idea.

When I was posted to Darwin, I visited the underground fuel tunnels that were built to store fuel during the war. Very interesting tourist attraction, and you don't realise how far under Darwin these things go! Is it worthwhile considering storage options like old mine shafts, disused tunnelling etc? Not sure if the costs outweigh the benefits but an option to consider if we are that concerned about storage. If it became that bad that we needed to access overseas storage, who is to say the storage country are not similarly affected and won't give it to us anyway?

http://www.ww2tunnelsdarwin.com.au/

Back to top

« Last Edit: May 3^rd, 2020 at 8:32pm by Vic »

Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Liberal Lies
Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Liberal Lies

IP Logged

Bam

Gold Member

Offline

Australian Politics

Posts: 21905
Gender: male

Re: Coalition's desperation with fuel reserves
Reply #85 - May 3^rd, 2020 at 6:49pm

Baronvonrort wrote on May 1^st, 2020 at 11:49pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 4:14pm:

It's ridiculous paying $94m to stockpile fuel overseas.

I wonder which liberal party donor thought up that scam?

We don't have anywhere to store it here.

Buying more while prices are low is a great idea.

You're easily pleased when the Libs are ruining the country.

Who's been in office for most of the last 25 years? Surely they could have allocated $100 million in any of their last six or seven budgets for upgrades to storage facilities when they were handing out billions to their mates.

This is what you get when you've got a lazy, do-nothing government in office.

Back to top

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to hold opinions that you can defend through sound, reasoned argument.

IP Logged