The Senate Inquiry of 2015 into Fuel Security. By David Archibald.
Australia is in the invidious position of having a Prime Minister and a Leader of the Opposition who, when they were Transport Minister and Energy Minister respectively, did their best to scuttle fuel security for Australia. They can’t be taken seriously on the subject.
Who can lead us out of this vale of tears1? It won’t be One Nation. Pauline Hanson has said that One Nation doesn’t do policy; they prefer to just pass judgement on the efforts of others. Developing policy requires work and you might be criticised. And it won’t be the Labor Party or Liberal Party; global warming hysteria and keeping the lights on are mutually exclusive.
In the last 50 years there has been only one Federal politician who was serious about fuel security. He was a Democratic Labor Party senator for Victoria, who did a deal and got the numbers to start a Senate inquiry into fuel security. …
What is worth recycling are some graphics from submission No 33, which was my contribution to the inquiry….
Petrol has 80% of the energy content of diesel and so, all things being equal, diesel should be priced 25% higher. …
[Australia could] continue exporting good coal and convert our super-abundance of low-grade coal. … Rocks will burn in pure oxygen down to a carbon content of 10%, which opens up a lot of potential. For example, the Nifty copper deposit in Western Australia is hosted by a Proterozoic shale with a grey colour due to its carbon content. Vast swathes of the West Australian desert would have similar rocks at surface. There is the potential for it all to be dug up, put through a gasifier with pure oxygen. …
Meanwhile, the globalists believe the carbon dioxide theory of global warming and went electric before battery technology was up to it:
On the subject of self-delusion in support of the narrative, the following photograph was taken at a mine site in Western Australia, likely one of the Fortescue iron ore mines:
It is an electric bus being recharged by a diesel generator. This setup would use at least 30% more diesel than a diesel bus by itself. To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: You can’t reason a man out of his self-delusion when his grift depends upon him not understanding reality.
Carbon/climate delusion is like petty crime or abandoning shopping trolleys on the street. Society is worse off by indulging those who partake in it.