The people profiting off of making civilization dependent on oil should be the ones to pay when oil prices go up.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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The future is a Cunt, right? But we’re all right Cunts on the bus!
And I hope everybody in Australia blames the right people for this. Yes, this is a very fucking stupid decision by a very fucking stupid president of the United States, but it's all those red hat wearing motherfuckers in the United States that put him in power. In this particular instance, general Americans are the fucking idiots that are responsible for this shit.
And we can’t forget blaming Albanese for his pandering to Trump every step of the way. Even today the spineless coward still won’t blame America for this.
Also the "red hat" motherfuckers in australia that kept australia so dependant on fossil fuels when it has some of the best natural resources for wind and solar power.
And gas.
Their fossil power is mostly coal though, so not really affected by this.
I was mostly referring to the lack of transport electrification.
Everything you said is true, but I hope more people are seeing the US as the canary we are in the realm of right wing politics. The cancer is spreading and getting more control around the world. Everyone should look at how the US has fallen under the Trump regime and what not to do. That's not to say that the US was doing great things outside of Trump, but this is certainly worse for the citizens of the US and the cascading effects are clearly having a negative effect on much of the rest of the world.
Let's also add that Netanyahu is also just as, if not more responsible as well.
Pinky and The Brain of geopolitics right there.
"Bibi, what are we going to do this year?"
"Same as we do every year, Trumpy. Try to take over the world!!"
"Narf!"
Except neither is a genius and both are insane.
Indeed. Fuck that cunt as well.
Kick the seppo cunts out of Pine Gap.
Wasn't this the start of Mad Max?
Green power and electric vhicles go!
Great if you can afford them.
FYI: Most Australians drive used cars, it'll be ~10 years before we start to see used BYD's and such falling into the hands of the working class.
is public transportation actually good in Australia? as in, you can actually do your daily living with it? (work, school, shopping, etc)?
Sydney and Melbourne have pretty good public transport. Unfortunately they're compensating for everywhere else, which has some truly fucking awful public transport. Looking at Adelaide in particular but I know others are also shit.
I've been living in Melbourne for ~10 years and don't own a car. The public transport and bike infrastructure around where I live is pretty good.
If I need to move house or something like that there's a car share service that has vans you can hire by the hour.
Interestingly the State Government here has made all public transport free for the month of April. They only announced it late last week. LINK.
that sounds pretty amazing!
Definitely not in Brisbane. Our public transport feels completely forgotten about. The only form I have access to is a bus and the closest bus stop I would have to walk to is over 2km away. I don't live in the middle of the city or anything but the area is well established and there is basically no infrastructure to provide basic public transport to people.
This whole fuel shit show will likely be awful and probably expensive.
IIRC, Melbourne is one of the very few cities in the world that didn't demolish its streetcar network in the 1950s, so there's that.
Australia is big, but Sydney, when I was there a million years ago had very good public transportation with a single card that got you access to buses, ferries etc..
*Sydney
Hah, whoops.... I blame my phone
...good to know!
I used to be an avid user/defender of public transportation (in Canada). Used it for 15 years (11 of which I actually had a car but did not use for daily commute)
But then it was ruined... literally a 13 Km commute (less than 10 miles if you are American) would mean 1.5 hours in a bus EACH WAY, vs 45 mins by car (which is still a travesty for such a short commute)
Now I am lucky to work from home most of the time and commute with an eScooter when the weather allows me to
Were you on the Scarborough line before it was dismantled?
no, Ottawa area... buses were terrible leading up to the LRT opening and after the LRT opening was a disaster (one that they are still recovering from) the buses became unusable
Ah, I didn't use the buses on my visit to Ottawa. We did use the VIA Rail from Montreal and made sure to have a Beavertail before we left your fine city though.
This title is bullshit. Not a fair summation of what was said at all.
"The prime minister sought to assure Australians it was still business as normal but said workers should consider taking public transport to conserve fuel supplies for those who didn’t have the option."
Is he really this stupid???
I'm in the usa, and I even know there are already extensive fuel shortages in Australia. Mostly due to Australia's refusal to keep the required 90 strategic reserve or have any refineries.
PS: Yes I know this is all trump's fault, but Australia and New Zealand seem to have just refused to prepare for the inevitable.
fuck off seppo
South Africa dodged a similar problem, our last president sold our 90 day reserve to his Dubai buddies below market rate. Fortunately our new multiparty government has competent people in place that fixed that before this crisis. Thus our fuel price is "only" going up by 15%, rather than tracking the oil price. It will go up more eventually, but some buffer is being provided for to soften the blow.
I am very surprised that australia and new Zeeland did not have bigger reserves, given they are on the end of a long supply chain and conflict in indonesia and china can cut off supply for a long time, not the mention a middle east crisis.
I am very surprised that Australia and New Zealand did not wean themselves off fossil fuels decades ago, given they are developed countries with wealth and skills and democracy.
Like most countries the conservative parties fight tooth and nail to stop any sort of renewable power or electrification and Australia had its own glut of Red hat morons over the last 16 or so years.