oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

Real national resilience does not come from staying hooked on imported fuel. We need to electrify the economy and transport, expand charging infrastructure, modernise the grid, and make it easier for households and businesses to cut oil dependence. www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_ur... #auspol

58/ A domino effect where the fallout gets bigger and bigger... if we run out of feedstock, eventually refiners are going to shut down hbr.org/2026/03/the-... "These "oil and gas are in everything" graphics are about to get very real super quick for a lot of people." -- @roryjohnston.bsky.social

Point is not just the whole US delusion re end of conflict - but that everyone in oil & gas knows a big supply disruption means a lot of countries will completely change how they view these fuels

BLOG: Seems someone else has noticed the pattern that cuts across all Trump's policy initiatives - Big fanfare that soon fades to whimpers as true costs become clear. Iran will be like that. Trump's entire presidency is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. www.jandehn.com/post/a-tale-...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Nothing defines “white” quite as much as an instinct to avoid accountability no matter the cost.

In two weeks, the war has released more CO2 than what a small country does in a year. And yeah, some teals are worried about petrol prices. Pretty fucked. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

* 2015-2025 was the hottest 11 years on record * Earth’s energy imbalance is the highest in 65-year record * The ocean has been absorbing about eighteen times the annual human energy use each year for the past two decades Probably fine.

The conflict in the Middle East appears to have forced some oil and gas companies to directly burn off more natural gas than usual at their facilities, releasing planet-warming pollution into the atmosphere.

87/ interview of Former White House energy adviser Bob McNally on CBS 60 minutes: "There are no policy solutions to a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Government tools like escorts, oil reserve releases, or gas tax cuts are marginal… symbolic… sideshows." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

Despite controlling the world's reserve currency and being the top military power, the US has lost its monopoly on major sanctions, says Nicholas Mulder. Limits to US power exposed by: 1/ China's rare earths export controls last year, and 2/ Iran with Strait of Hormuz effective closure

“In a country where billionaires, fossil fuel companies, social media companies, & media empires avoid tax, apparently the real strain on taxpayer money is disabled people who have the nerve to want to be alive.” Disabled people don’t break the budget. Broken, greedy & corrupt systems do. #Auspol

98/ "Most convincing argument I've read recently that the Pentagon knows what it's doing, from ... Al Jazeera" - @semaforben.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Exclusive: Initial findings by an internal UN inquiry suggest Israeli tank fire hit a UN position in southern Lebanon on March 6, wounding Ghanaian peacekeepers, according to a Western military source reut.rs/3Ptgkf3

"Seeking to appease the Trump regime is a recipe for disaster." @dncameron.bsky.social #AUKUS #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

The shame.the horror. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

NEW: Three years after Musk declared removing child exploitation on X ‘priority #1’, Australia's eSafety office says CSEM is more accessible on X than any other mainstream service — and has launched two investigations into it. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Australian tech firms have laid off 4,450 workers so far this year, with every cut attributed to AI, according to a new analysis. The findings reinforce concerns that the technology is eliminating jobs, though some argue AI is also creating new roles at an even faster rate.

"In a joint statement, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom have said they are “gravely concerned by the escalating violence in Lebanon” and called for an immediate de-escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah" Why the hell isn't Australia part of this?

You'd also think that running the message that 'hey, did you know, that while you're paying full price for petrol, that big miners are getting a 51 cent per litre discount while reporting billions in profits' wouldn't be that hard to land with voters.

"Mass loss of other people's jobs necessary to tame inflation, some absolute c*nts warn" www.afr.com/policy/econo...

Email etiquette, a timeline 2015: Scrupulously edit all emails, FULL punctuation 2017: Don't use too many exclamation marks! People will think you are a small girl! 2021: Occasionally leave out full-stops as a power move 2026: One typo per email to show an AI didn't write it

Things are not okay.

A Clear Air column banging on about some today/tomorrow issues. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The whining about wanting a “politics free evening” is rich. “I shat on the neighbor’s lawn, and he has the GALL to keep bringing it up.”

Trump Demands Staff Get King Of Hormuz On Line https://theonion.com/trump-demands-staff-get-king-of-hormuz-on-line/

" Once you've got your solar panel there's no cost for the sun." "With a stroke," says @kingsmillbond.bsky.social, "this war has dramatically increased the power and the influence of those who want to go down the solar route." Here's why countries are glad they invested in solar, batteries+ EVs ⬇️

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

#CurryFiles released! By court order (via @ucs.org & @envdefensefund.bsky.social) 100K+ pages of document have been released, detailing effort by Judith Curry/John Christy/Steven Koonin/Ross McKitrick /Roy Spencer to discredit scientific case for federal climate action: www.edf.org/media/record...

Our Navy is “essentially non-existent”. We’re vulnerable to drone warfare. We’ve limited munitions. We’ve no fuel security. We’re spending our Defence money on a never arriving #AUKUS sub force. And Govt just kneecapped oversight of the organisation that put us here. 1/2 #auspol

That didn't age well. More importantly, if CEOs are this clueless about office work, why do they keep their jobs?

Gaza was the blueprint. And the albo conman is truly complicit up to his eyeballs.. “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.”

ABC radio host is asking Grace Tame to defend potential future “violence” hypothetically caused by her words while ignoring the facts she states, of genocidal violence committed by Israel. Live on air, he asks a survivor of sexual violence to condemn unproven Israeli claims of sexual violence.

Men. What is wrong with you???

2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker" "There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster" Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband" x.com/implausibleb...

Form last week - Ed Husic calls out gas industry’s “glut of greed” @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260312-...

fill 'er up

When I pressed a farmer against the solar project about the promising research into agrivoltaics and asked if his opinion would change with more verification from the long-term research, he conceded, “anything that changes the land offends me if it isn’t farming or wetlands.”

The pro-Israel lobby congratulates itself for wrecking the livelihood of Australia’s most prominent campaigner against child sexual abuse.

Michael this rule change is aimed at eliminating accountability for AUKUS. The waste you are talking about is small beer compared to what is planned. Always follow the $

The sheer waste is shocking. 21 Defence projects, $37B in blow-outs. So govt orders Auditor-General to stop auditing. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social used to be on the Audit Committee #auspol michaelwest.com.au/biggest-lose...

Dear America, DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT AND YOUR FECKLESS GOVERNMENT! WHY SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS INSANITY? Signed, Most of the rest of the planet

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Biobank just keeps on having accidents, doesn't it? Got shared with researchers with far-right ties not all that long ago, and now this...

Here's David Rayfield. "For Albanese, joining a global atrocity is far less “difficult” than Grace Tame" theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

A decade on, the message is still the same: “…the person operating the giant machine on public roads needs to be responsible for not killing people with it.”

Weird how a war supposedly about Iranian ballistic missile capabilities magicked itself overnight into Israeli adventurism in southern Lebanon that looks a hell of a lot like what its Kremlin allies are doing in Ukraine by annexing land they have no right to while slaughtering all who get in the way