It looks like Peak Oil has actually hit. I'm watching the 730 report now. This dude is saying the west will have to radically restructure its transport infrastructure because it was based on cheap oil.
I can't help thinking of those greedy fucking developers that built entire suburbs predicated on the car being the prime if not sole means of transport so they could fit more houses into smaller blocks (tiny winding streets are not good for buses). Read more »
You know the message is starting to get through when Kerry O’Brien on ABC’s 7.30 Report opens an interview with the Prime Minister by saying “isn’t it time to look Australians in the eye and tell them the news is only going to get worse on oil?”
What a pity that the PM continued to ignore peak oil and blithely claimed that no-one can know what will happen to oil prices. Just because ABARE is so bad at it doesn’t mean everyone is! Read more »
This has taken a while, but we finally have Christine’s Budget Reply Speech up on YouTube and postable to the blog. Those of you who have enjoyed reading or listening to it may be interested in watching it.
In five parts.
New Matilda published this piece from Christine today under the title: ‘Be wary, we’re in safe hands’.
The Rudd Government has made much, since well before coming to office, of its determination to unblock Australia’s infrastructure bottlenecks and to tackle climate change.
I have noted before that unless carefully managed, these two goals will come into direct [...]
There is an old political adage that the Budget is the clearest possible view of a government’s soul - laying bare its priorities for all to see.
So, now that the day of the Rudd Government’s first Budget has arrived, what can we expect?
From all that we’ve seen and heard thus far, and from regular interaction [...]
I think Liberal Backbencher Chris Pearce may have done us all a big favour by taking the petrol price populism just that little bit too far this morning. He went out on a limb calling for his own party to double its ridiculous 5c fuel excise cut to 10c and promptly got smacked down by members of his own party as well as others. Read more »
As the team at Hansard are struggling valiantly to catch up on the huge quantity of transcribing work coming out of Senate Estimates, it’s going to be a little while before we’re up to date here on what’s been happening, but I thought I’d post a few key climate and oil-related transcripts now.
The one that [...]
While the battle of petrol price populism between the old parties drags on, Christine plugged away once again last night at her favourite Senate Estimates sparring partner, ABARE.
While ABARE is finally waking up to the understanding that there might be such a phenomenon as climate change, peak oil, sadly, still eludes them. Last night, Philip [...]
This piece was published today on Crikey’s daily email. Also see my media release from this morning on the issue.
I have to confess myself quite flabbergasted by the extent to which our governments, oppositions, economists, planners and media claim to have been caught unawares by the rocketing global oil price and imply that no one [...]
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