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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 119200 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Bowen on fuel - Reply #105 - Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:23pm lee wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:20pm: Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:14pm: Yeah but I reckon Albo was talking cock and bull. I agree. He won't be backtracking from the green agenda anytime soon. Basically you need tanks farms to store the fuel. You also have to use the older fuel first or it goes stale.
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Reply #106 - Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:25pm

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:23pm:

lee wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:20pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:14pm:

Yeah but I reckon Albo was talking cock and bull.

I agree. He won't be backtracking from the green agenda anytime soon.

Basically you need tanks farms to store the fuel.

You also have to use the older fuel first or it goes stale.

Yep. Which means constant turnover. I suspect the numpty politicians will think "buy it now and use when we get another crisis". Roll Eyes

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Reply #107 - Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:43pm

lee wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:25pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:23pm:

lee wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:20pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:14pm:

Yeah but I reckon Albo was talking cock and bull.

I agree. He won't be backtracking from the green agenda anytime soon.

Basically you need tanks farms to store the fuel.

You also have to use the older fuel first or it goes stale.

Yep. Which means constant turnover. I suspect the numpty politicians will think "buy it now and use when we get another crisis". Roll Eyes

Albo and Bowen don't know. Roll Eyes

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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3233 Gender:	Re: Bowen on fuel - Reply #108 - Apr 10^th, 2026 at 10:03pm Did you see Albo walking around the Singapore refinery? He looked absolutely amazed! “ You do all this without a single windmill? It’s incredible! “ he reported uttering shocked to see a first world industrial area.
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Reply #109 - Apr 10^th, 2026 at 10:11pm

Daves2017 wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 10:03pm:

Did you see Albo walking around the Singapore refinery?

He looked absolutely amazed!

“ You do all this without a single windmill? It’s incredible! “ he reported uttering shocked to see a first world industrial area.

It's embarrassing -
a tiny island like Singapore with no natural resources -
that has better technology and industry than us -
we're a whole continent and we can't even use or refine enough of our own oil
for our small population.

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Reply #110 - Apr 11^th, 2026 at 10:11am

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:23pm:

lee wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:20pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 10^th, 2026 at 4:14pm:

Yeah but I reckon Albo was talking cock and bull.

I agree. He won't be backtracking from the green agenda anytime soon.

Basically you need tanks farms to store the fuel.

You also have to use the older fuel first or it goes stale.

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A typical large-scale refinery holds storage capacity equivalent to roughly 10–30 days of production, encompassing storage for both crude oil and finished products. While individual tanks can hold over 1 million barrels (approx. 159 million litres), total site storage varies widely, often exceeding hundreds of millions of litres to manage shipping, production, and supply fluctuations.

We need to use our own oil resources(stop exporting it) and build new refineries.

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Reply #111 - Apr 11^th, 2026 at 1:29pm

Front page of today's The West Australian.

Gee, what a surprise.

I'm sure if I'd bothered to read the whole story on pages 4 and 5 I would have seen some stupid pollie say it's "un-Australian" and/or "not the Australian way". Roll Eyes

I only get the Saturday paper for one of my elderly neighbours and I only have a quick look through it before I take it to her.

I'm not paying $4 for a Saturday "news"paper that is two thirds to three quarters full of ads - mostly Harvey Norman and Domayne ads, of course.

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Reply #112 - Apr 11^th, 2026 at 1:32pm

Gnads wrote on Apr 11^th, 2026 at 10:11am:

We need to use our own oil resources(stop exporting it) and build new refineries.

We need new investment in exploration and drilling. But the numpties currently in power have belief in diffuse renewables. Solar 25% (sometimes, not at all at night), Wind 30%, spread over thousands of hectares (when it blows).

Despite what greenies say the world still relies on about 90% fossil fuels. Roll Eyes

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Reply #113 - Apr 11^th, 2026 at 2:15pm

Carl D wrote on Apr 11^th, 2026 at 1:29pm:

Front page of today's The West Australian.

Gee, what a surprise.

I'm sure if I'd bothered to read the whole story on pages 4 and 5 I would have seen some stupid pollie say it's "un-Australian" and/or "not the Australian way". Roll Eyes

I only get the Saturday paper for one of my elderly neighbours and I only have a quick look through it before I take it to her.

I'm not paying $4 for a Saturday "news"paper that is two thirds to three quarters full of ads - mostly Harvey Norman and Domayne ads, of course.

And the ACCC will do………. Nothing

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After weeks of poor press regarding Albo ( and Scomo) poor management of fuel reserves and desperate for a major distraction.
Federal Police arrest Ben ( war criminal) Smith.
What Amazing timing?

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Reply #114 - Apr 11^th, 2026 at 2:39pm

Regardless there will be no return to any attempt to explore or refine our own natural resources.

Until China takes Taiwan and control of Asian ocean ways.

Then we will see Korea unified finally again and they will go to war with the Japanese driven by Russia.

Then and only then will we realise it’s all too late and we actually lack the ability to even explore or refine anything without our Chinese backers.

We will continue to make A grade coffee and eggs and smashed avo as the Hawk / Keating government created a whole generation of casual chefs and waiters.

Moving any engineering or production skills offshore as fast as they could.

Our superannuation will disappear to help “ keep the lights on” at around the same time all our political elites past and present will suddenly disappear to lands less of poverty

Than eventually and in many centuries too come,

People will again travel by more than foot or cycle or horse drawn carts and there will be tours to visit our long forgotten wind farms and solar farms and people will wonder in awe how a country so blessed in the world with natural resources and no neighbours or continent wars was destroyed by there own means and money by this-

18 th century technology of wind and solar power.

Some will laugh, some will cry.

All will judge us with utter disdains.

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After weeks of poor press regarding Albo ( and Scomo) poor management of fuel reserves and desperate for a major distraction.
Federal Police arrest Ben ( war criminal) Smith.
What Amazing timing?

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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15063 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Bowen on fuel - Reply #115 - Apr 14^th, 2026 at 12:17pm BREAKING: Motorists urged to cut floor out of cars and go full Flintstone to save fuel.
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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 15063 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Bowen on fuel - Reply #116 - Apr 16^th, 2026 at 11:41pm
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Reply #117 - Apr 27^th, 2026 at 8:36am

Can we just stick to one Pollie from Australia jetting around the world to secure Fuel for us? Now Wong is on the gravy train. Why isn’t Anthea Harris - Fuel Supply Taskforce Head - doing all this? She was appointed by Albo to co-ordinate our fuel stocks and do all the heavy lifting, so it stands to reason she should go instead of this turning into a multi-pollie jet fest. Next they will be sending Barnaby Joyce as there really no great difference between water and petrol when it comes to heading off O/S

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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 57970 Gender:	Re: Bowen on fuel - Reply #118 - Yesterday at 2:50pm Coal consumption by country, 2024 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/global-coal-consumpt...
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Valkie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16264 Central Coast Gender:	Re: Bowen on fuel - Reply #119 - Yesterday at 6:58pm I'd like to know how many LIEBOR , green and teal members have heavily invested in the green dream.
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