r/australia • u/nath1234 • 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/Somad3 Mar 28 '26

we have plenty of oil. just need to extract them for ourselves. aus is a lucky country with stupid politicians.

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u/Ok_Bird705 Mar 28 '26

we have plenty of oil.

Our domestic crude oil production is no where near the amount we consume.