Yes that's why we need to phase it out.
Diesel is a finite resource. Being dependent on it is bad. Thankfully every single Ag equipment company is rolling out headline BEV alternatives right now in 2026.
Posting doesn't work. But there are people in the real world making a difference. It's a lot of hard work and a lot of student debt. But it's how I wake up every day motivated to keep fighting.
I try to not be a doomer.
Sometimes I do feel like I've bargained down to: "When the first more than month-long heat dome hits India and Bangladesh and kills 200M people. Then society willl change"
Which is not a great. But I have changed careers twice now to get closer to the issue. So I live it.
Inpex are expanding and opening new fields in Norway even. Where they are already being taxed at a very high rate.
They have nowhere else to go and buyers will happily pay the extra. Demand is increasing overseas, not decreasing.
We should kill AUKUS and fund NDIS. Allocate funsing to audit service providers. But auspol posters completely forgot about AUKUS already.
All the media ever has to do here is jingle their keys.
Gas is super elastic in price. Tax it at 50% and they'll expand and open new fields.
Oh no, please don't block me because I shot down your nonsense with a real-world example and your best response was "durr but what about Price Signals?"
I literally just gave you an example of how increased extraction costs don't matter to extraction companies. I worked in the industry for years.
Except it's a resource increasing in demand in the countries we export to and it's very price-elastic.
So no, charging more won't deter extraction.
For example Inpex are expanding operations in Norway where they are already taxed at a very high rate, so your unresearched take is complete nonsense.
There's an old saying.
"There are no Leftists on the Internet."
They shut down our union and climate subreddits for no reason in 2020. On Instagram, Threads and Facebook your account's reach will be seriously reduced if you post union or climate-related information.
Bsky is no different.
Hyper-online idiots like yourself are exactly why the Greens are pinned at 12%.
You're all in this comment section getting mad at Albanese for something he hasn't said. Because none of you bothered to read the article.
Time-wasted punching shadows.
When confronted you change the subject.
People need to really drop the cognitive dissonance and understand that we are headed for +3C by 2050.
In that world, you, and/or people you know and love, will die.
Folk's knowledge of climate change is stuck in 2016. We should be talking about a 2 year plan to kill gas extraction completely.
If we lived in a world where government's had a long term plan, maybe.
But the huge tax hike being proposed will make us dependent on that specific resource. Removing that export will be unpopular and expanding extraction will become attractive.
And that's a lie, I literally listened to David from Triple J's hack tell Chris Bowen that gas companies don't pay tax less than two hours ago on their show.
It has been repeated ad nauseum by campaigners.
I am a Greens voter, but I'm over the reactionary shit.
You're still not reading the article.
Nowhere is there any proof Albo is shooting down anything. His own ministers from his own faction are quoted in the article saying it's being worked on.
There are other resources not being taxed that we will only be extracting more of as we strive to build a green economy resilient to a changing climate.
#auspol #climate
Post in favour of a tax hike if you want. But don't try to pretend it's because you give a toss about climate change.
The last thing we need is more economic dependence on the thing guaranteed to kill you and your kids if left unchecked.
#auspol
Don't post in favour of an export tax and pretend to give a shit about the climate.
Methane from natural gas extraction is the single largest source of atmospheric methane. And it only breaks down into co2.
We don't need a levvy as much as we need extraction to cease completely.
#auspol #climate
Aussies should be cautious about the ABC, too many on the left are falling for rw talking points.
The ABC board and reporting staff are stacked with Newscorp alumni. They get away with these misleading headlines because rhe reporting within is still factual.
But they know nobody reads...
#auspol
Albo's quotes about some campaigners being disingenuous is 100% factual. Gas companies DO pay tax, thanks to the ALP.
Australia's mineral extraction is a whole other story. But he IS right on gas extraction specifically.
None of his quotes indicate that he is opposing the suggested tax hike.
Ummm...
Did anyone read the article? It says the exact opposite of what the headline says.
It says the tax is being seriously considered but had been delayed due to other measures and there's only three weeks until the budget is released.
Literally nothing in there that supports the headline...
Why don't they raise the threshold for the partner income test temporarily like they did during COVID? That would specifically help low-income families who are car dependent in regional areas.
The paradox is that everything PHON voters want, we can have. Build homes, make University free for citizens and incentivise investment in research and startups instead of "bricks and mortar."
Fund it all by taxing resources.
Leftist policy will deliver for PHON voters. We need to message better.
"Public-private" ensures blown-out timelines, budgets and shoddy build quality, rather than homes and communities built to last centuries.
We need a publically-funded, wholistic approach.
We can create jobs, third-spaces, people-centric communities that set the country up for the future.
#auspol
So many of us saw this coming from a mile away.
The only way to fix housing long-term is to increase supply. The only way to tackle this is to have the government hire trades and build homes directly. "Public-private" only puts money in the hands of cons and crooks.
We've done it before.
#auspol
There is zero reason to build anything outside more solar and wind. They are now the most cost-effective new sources of energy hands down. Especially here in Australia.
We need to overule the moron NIMBYs blocking transmission. But we can also lighten the load by mandating home solar and storage.
If we can get the public behind such an action. It will allow us to pull the same levers across our entire system.
We can start pushing for a socialist alternative now, even under the ALP government. Showing that this sort of direct intervention works and is preferable to "public-private."
100%
We should be in a wartime mobilization type atmosphere right now.
I believe we can push for a gov authority that directly hires trades and builders to solve the housing crisis. Then, we use that same building authority to start tackling energy & climate issues.
Steps to Green socialism.
This is what folks who aren't analysts or scientists in the field are not understanding, or it is not being adequately communicated.
We are experiencing warming beyond our worst-case scenarios. But no modeling fits.
There are lots of papers and opinions, but consensus takes time we don't have.
We don't know!
That's the big drama in climate science communities right now. None of our modeling fits the accelerated warming we are seeing.
It will take us decades to study today's climate. Let alone next year's, and the year after that and so on.
That's the crisis.
I'm sorry. But any action we take now will have a massive lag in effect. The amount of energy we have pumped into the system is difficult to comprehend.
I am not a "doomer." But believe people need to have realistic expectations in order for us to face the issues as they actually stand.
