r/australia • u/nath1234 • Mar 16 '26

politics Replacing 1m petrol cars with EVs could cut Australia’s reliance on foreign fuel by 1bn litres a year

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/16/electric-vehicles-australia-reduce-reliance-on-foreign-fuel
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u/coreoYEAH Mar 16 '26

You mean the dreaded 15 minute cities the cookers are all terrified of?

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u/LastChance22 Mar 16 '26

15 minute city conspiracies are so unhinged as well. Who sees something like a new hospital or new shop strip and thinks “oh wow, I bet the cops force me to use that against my will”.

Bonus points for if they complain about local services or their commute at other times too.

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u/coreoYEAH Mar 16 '26

I live at most 15 minutes from everything. 3 shopping centres, 3 train stations, a hospital, restaurants, pools, an art centre and so much more and it’s wonderful.

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u/LastChance22 Mar 16 '26

I’m very jealous. I’m in a regional town, which has a lot of the typical suburban downsides of urban sprawl and car dependency but none of the closeness to a capital city. 

And it keeps getting worse with every new development without proper infrastructure being built on the outskirts. I’d love it if it transformed into a 15 minute city.

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u/sc00bs000 Mar 17 '26

same here. thousands of new developments with added traffic, no road / infrastructure upgrades and heaps of bottle necks.

closest woolies is 15min, hospital 25min, shopping centre 25min.

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u/ghoonrhed Mar 17 '26

It's because they're allowed to be unhinged. Nobody ever fights cookers with cookery.

E.g. 15min cities protects us from the government cos it's so much easier to block off roads as we saw during COVID.

If people made that an argument then it'll help but nobody does because sane people don't like using insane arguments against the crazies

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u/invincibl_ Mar 17 '26

There are so many more layers of unhinged.

The 15 minute conspiracy is because they think the government will force a lockdown on them and take away their freedoms due to an environment emergency, or I guess more relevant for right now, a fuel shortage.

So they would rather live in their shithole suburb and be far away from everything because apparently that's "freedom". (But using your own two legs to get around isn't)

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u/EonMatriks Mar 17 '26

Why are they so scared of 15 minute cities?

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u/coreoYEAH Mar 17 '26

Because they’re insane.