tomatoes
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Post by tomatoes on Aug 5, 2019 18:10:23 GMT 10
au.news.yahoo.com/aust-talks-us-over-oil-taylor-204726245--spt.html“Car and truck drivers are split over a plan to access millions of barrels of oil from America's emergency reserves to boost Australia's supplies. The Morrison government is negotiating with the Trump administration to access America's own fuel reserve, as Australia hunts for a way to boost dangerously low levels of fuel held on domestic soil.” ... “"The United States is on the other side of a very wide ocean," chair Geoff Crouch said. "It would not provide security for the Australian economy if there is a disruption to international supply chains." Labor backed the truckers, saying the government's plan wasn't good enough. "I'll tell you what would shore up Australia's fuel security, and that's to actually have fuel security here in Australia," Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese told reporters in Sydney.” Etc Lists our current fuel reserves and the lowest they have been.
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Post by Joey on Aug 5, 2019 18:37:30 GMT 10
What would sure up our fuel reserves is to fire up our processing plants here again and get some Aussie produced fuel back on the market. This would also leave us with only a reduced fuel availability for a short period of time rather then a long period of no fuel if the Sotuh CHina sea kicks off and china closes the shipping routes.
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Post by spinifex on Aug 6, 2019 17:12:55 GMT 10
Fundamental prep: We have huge amounts of LPG here in Oz ... own a car that runs on it.
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bug
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Post by bug on Oct 5, 2019 13:36:49 GMT 10
What would sure up our fuel reserves is to fire up our processing plants here again and get some Aussie produced fuel back on the market. This would also leave us with only a reduced fuel availability for a short period of time rather then a long period of no fuel if the Sotuh CHina sea kicks off and china closes the shipping routes. This. Most of our fuel now comes through Singapore. There are a variety of Asian nations that could easily shut down our access to this. This situation is ridiculous. We have enough oil to be self sufficient, but have no real stores of it because we shut down most of our refineries, so we ask the americans to store it for us.
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