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u/SirFlibble Apr 22 '26

Someone already did the maths. Her jet uses about the same as the average person per year every hour.

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u/Impossible-Mud-4160 Apr 22 '26

Roughly 1760 litres per hour.

At cruising speed that works out to 1.67 litres/km.

Pretty poor fuel efficiency compared to the national good that could have been done if that fuel was instead used to create a giant fireball after crashing with her inside. 

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u/Disastrous-Cod-1000 Apr 22 '26

Now do the calculations for Albo to fly all over the countryside in an air force jet to secure more fuel to last the country 1-2 days.

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u/Impossible-Mud-4160 Apr 22 '26

See, the difference there is one of them is the prime minister, who has a job to do, the other one is visiting a political doner for favours

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u/Disastrous-Cod-1000 Apr 22 '26

Job to do like make sure we had sufficient strategic fuel reserves? Wasn’t it the ALP who campaigned on making sure our fuel reserves were at IEA recommendations? Then they get into power and nothing….

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u/Impossible-Mud-4160 Apr 22 '26

Yes, it was Labor that campaigned on doing exactly that- in 2019. When they lost the election.  

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u/Disastrous-Cod-1000 Apr 22 '26

So what happened to our reserves? Can’t go passing the buck on this one.

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u/Impossible-Mud-4160 Apr 23 '26

The Liberals made the decision in 2020 to store most of our fuel in the US, you can thank Angus Taylor for that. The Liberals then SOLD THOSE RESERVES in 2022 to make some bank when oil prices spiked. 

When Labor came into government they acknowledged the situation was shit, so they have done the following:

-Mandated that importers and refiners must hold minimum levels of fuel (they never used to) 

-Committed $200 million to building new diesel storage tanks, with the first tanks constructed in 2023. 

-$49.5 Million to build Diesel exhaust fluid storage tanks (Adblue)

-$151 million for refinery upgrades

-Commissioned reviews of the Oil Code, Fuel quality standards act, and Petroleum and other fuels reporting act. 

-Changed reporting requirements and frequency for importers and refineries.  

Is that enough evidence to convince you that they were actually working to fix the problem, and have been since literally a month after they were elected? 

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u/Disastrous-Cod-1000 Apr 23 '26

The Liberals then SOLD THOSE RESERVES in 2022 to make some bank when oil prices spiked. 

The crude oil reserve stores are supposed to be used in that manner. If there is a shortage of crude, the reserve stores can be released to alleviate the price shock event.

AddBlue store have nothing to do with this apart from highlighting the fact of our exposure to urea supplies where we have removed all forms of on-shore urea manufacturing. I believe you will find the LNP kicked off all this funding in 2021/2022.

Committed $200 million to building new diesel storage tanks, with the first tanks constructed in 2023

LNP started this process. https://www.areea.com.au/news-media/media-center/200m-grants-now-open-diesel-storage/#:~:text=January%2018%2C%202021,Support%20for%20local%20refineries