Tag: urgency

Renewable energy

Vladimir Putin makes renewable energy security an urgent no-brainer

renewable energy

At a time like this Morrison bought and stored our emergency oil deposits in Texas and said renewables aren’t his priority. Meanwhile families are paying for his lack of forward planning and action. A tank that cost $80 is now nearing $160. He should have his photo taken next to a bowser!!

1.7 million barrels of oil, purchased last year, is stored in Texas while we now scramble to build more domestic storage, and this comes after years of the International Energy Agency warning us that our stocks had fallen below safe levels. It took the Coalition government well into its third term to find a solution that depends on tanker availability to deliver our stocks from America during an international crisis. The extent of our oil dependence is enormous. It costs $29 billion in annual imports to keep Australia moving and yet we have readily available an abundance of renewable energy sources in solar, wind and hydro. The Coalition government not only dragged the chain on fossil fuel security, but its decade-and-a-half-old internal power struggles over climate change has been a major obstacle to implementing a speedier transition to electric transport. Who can forget Scott Morrison ridiculing electric vehicles in the 2019 election campaign?

Source: Vladimir Putin makes renewable energy security an urgent no-brainer

History

The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden’s Neck

Trump knew he had a very short time to break everything and he did. Because he knew it takes much longer to fix things. However he was the one who did it.

Trump was a true rule-breaker who did manage to do quite a lot in the international arena, where he had far greater leeway to make changes beyond congressional control. Much of that activity was destructive, because Trump proved quite adept at smashing things. Indeed, Trump smashed things—the Iran nuclear deal, détente with Cuba—not just because of a peevish desire to destroy his predecessor’s legacy but as part of a scorched-earth policy to FUBAR the federal government for generations to come. As a result, Biden will spend much of his term picking up the pieces—and that’s a whole lot harder when you’re in handcuffs.

Source: The Trump Albatross around Joe Biden’s Neck

Syria/iraq, Tony Abbott

3 weeks of sabre rattling by Abbott waiting for paper work first with his mouth last out of the gate. Is he having an each way bet?

 

 

According to Abbott IS insurgency in Northern Iraq and Syria had declared “war on the world” and was an “apocalyptic death cult”

” We have not yet made a final decision to commit  our forces to combat but Australian aircraft from 1/10/2014 will start over Iraq in support of allied operations”

However Australia’s new AFP chief Andrew Colvin said

“the low- tech terrorism of Islamic State represented a new kind of threat that would take years to stamp out”

Quite different from Abbott’s “world directed apocalyptic death cult”.

The two seem to be on different pages of the hymn book. However Abbott’s delay while all other coalition countries are flying sorties appears to be a document one. That Australia is being more exacting in its requirement for legal indemnity that the sheer amount of paper work is holding up Abbott’s war. What the fuck is this man trying to extort out of his apocalyptic emergency? The resettlement of Asylum seekers?

So after 3 weeks Australian airstrikes are on hold waiting for clearances from Iraq and a decision I repeat a decision by us.

Senior ADF personnel are expressing their official concerns about the delay given the rest of the coalition are in action. Julie Bishop tells us of the” gathering momentum” but not by us Julie wear are holding the coats in this fight it would seem.