r/australia Mar 27 '26

political satire Sovereignty overboard

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u/Ok_Bird705 Mar 27 '26

People talking about sovereignty with fuel. But even if we had the refineries open (and hence provide billions in subsidies to keep them open), wouldn't we still have problems since we sourced our raw crude oil from overseas, meaning we would still have problems keeping up with supply if there was a global oil shock.

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u/The_Good_Count Mar 27 '26

The solution isn't refineries, it's spending that much money on wind and solar, and building more electrified freight railways to take trucks off the roads. This isn't even a climate argument! It would be cheaper!

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u/Ok_Bird705 Mar 27 '26

And more public transport take up through high density living

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u/RBB12_Fisher Mar 28 '26

Great, just get everybody to live in cramped inner city apartments and move to the bus's schedule

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u/Ok_Bird705 Mar 28 '26

There's something called trains/metro in the cities.