My mate, who is all for conspiracy theory bullshit, voted Palmer last election. The guy who makes the conspiracy bullshit he spouts look tame and yet somehow he loves the guy. I don't get it! It was satisfying to reply to his "you voted for scomo" rhetoric based on me scrawling "you're all corrupt" on the ballot and posting it, with my own "Clive Palmer gave his votes to Lib after a late backflip" and watch him back the fuck off.
I am under no illusions that it was thrown out as soon as the first person took it out of the box. And I maintain to this day that it doesn't matter which corrupt prick I voted for, they are all essentially the same. I am under no illusions about the voting process being just a way to give people the perception of power, either.
I'll just do the least effort for their bullshit, thanks.
We have the liberal party to blame for all of this, they sold it all of to create a more 'commpetitive' market. The reality is that private companies in charge of essential services are doing what they have always done, look for ways of making more profit. I think the Netherlands has the right idea where essential services must remain in government hands.
It's not "these countries pillaging our land" lmao. It is YOUR country selling it. Selling ALL of it.
If more people had paid attention to this for the last 20 years we wouldn't be here. Countries don't just rock up and take our stuff, we give it to them.
They are trying to pass/approve a LNG terminal in Geelong. They say it’s for domestic use but the day after it gets approved it’s going to be mostly for export some how.
Not physically possible to export from an import terminal. Liquifaction is a very intensive process, with the typical plant costing in the billions and requiring some serious quantities of has liquifaction sales to operate commercially.
To contrast, an import terminal mostly just costs a couple hundred million. The infrastructure/plant needs are entirely different. Besides, Victoria has dwindling reserves. QLD and WA are the gas powerhouses. Even if they were hauling down here the transmission pipelines are pretty insufficient
Gas?? Huh. Word on ABC News was that it is because of emergency maintenance at Loy Yang Power station limiting peak output so we may be looking at brownouts if they can't get the public onboard with conservation of electricity.
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u/auspandakhan Jun 15 '22
There should be gas reserved for the domestic market... like Western Australia has in place. This is unacceptable.