As imported petrol prices cripple our transport and tourism industries, farmers and families, the Federal Member for Kennedy has today taken the Treasurer to task for decades of Liberal and Labor government failures to secure our domestic fuel supplies with 100 per cent Australian-made, renewable ethanol.
Just one week after the Prime Minister agreed to take Kennedy MP Bob Katter’s repeated calls for a fuel ethanol mandate to his Energy Minister, Mr Katter today asked the Treasurer whether the government’s Budget would “continue to say ‘no’ to ethanol for another 30 years”.
“Since 2005, we’ve repeatedly moved that 32 per cent of our fuel requirements be met from our own oil reserves – and that’s without even tapping oil shales,” said Mr Katter in Question Time.
“Since our question to the Prime Minister last week, truckies and tourism operators, farmers and families are now paying – at best – over 25 cents a litre more at the bowser (while) one-tenth of our entire export earnings ($62,000 million) boomerangs offshore to buy fuel.”
Mr Katter said North Queenslanders from across the 567,000 square kilometre electorate of Kennedy and beyond had contacted him in droves in the past week after being unable to buy any fuel at all for essential road transport, time-critical harvests, or school bus runs in remote areas.
“I’m now told they’ve shut the pump at Babinda after the wholesale price spiked to $3 a litre, which impossible for our independent outlets to absorb or pass on to consumers, and cuts off the lifeblood of regional Queensland.”
And while the Treasurer told Parliament supply chain pressures “particularly in regional areas” were being directly addressed by the government, Mr Katter said reports of prices reaching $3.50 a litre in Sydney did not auger well for North Queensland farmers already being told they can’t be sure when to expect fuel deliveries next, or what the price for orders already placed will even be.
Dismissing the increased monitoring of petrol price-gouging and financial penalties by the ACCC as “empty threats by a toothless tiger”, Mr Katter said Australia remained “at the mercy of the Middle East” despite being “uniquely placed for self-sufficiency” with ample grain and sugar ethanol feedstocks.
“If the people running our country can’t see the bullet that’s coming for them, then get out of the way and let someone in who can.”
Meanwhile Sky News supports Katter’s claim the ACCC cannot or will not do anything about price gouging:
Australia is in a fuel security crisis and the government’s response is to write a letter.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers wrote to the ACCC last week asking them to make sure fuel retailers don’t use the Middle East situation as an excuse to gouge customers. Energy Minister Chris Bowen met with oil companies and announced they’d assured him fuel would keep flowing until at least May.
Until May. We should all sleep soundly.
The ACCC has been monitoring Australian fuel prices since 2008. Eighteen years of quarterly reports, strongly worded statements and letters to fuel companies. Their advice to Australians right now during a genuine supply crisis?
Use a fuel price app to shop around for the cheapest bowser.
That’s it. That’s the plan.
Their biggest enforcement action in eighteen years was a $16 million fine against Mobil for misleading conduct at nine Queensland service stations. Mobil’s Australian revenue runs into billions annually. That fine is a rounding error on their quarterly profit statement and every one of them knows it.
Now they’ve doubled the maximum penalty to $100 million and called an emergency meeting with fuel companies to ask them to explain their pricing. The fuel companies will send their lawyers, nod politely and go home.
Meanwhile regional Australia is watching bowsers run dry and prices hit levels never seen before — and the government’s solution is a letter, a meeting and a watchdog that has spent eighteen years watching and achieving almost nothing.
Writing a letter to the ACCC about a fuel crisis is like writing a letter to a scarecrow about a fox in the henhouse.
Looks like someone’s doing something.
Doesn’t scare the fox one bit.
Cairns News is well aware that Far Northern petrol stations began price rises, in one instance 30 cents a litre over three days when no fuel deliveries had been made at the service station.
Caltex was lifting the price on existing stocks of diesel and petrol held in their on site tanks. When queried the console operator and lessee said “…ask Caltex.”
The Australian farmer and the Australian Middle Class Joe Blow is being eliminated. That should leave us with only the Lords and the Serfs working for the masters and paying thru the nose for the privilege. While else are the farmers being pushed off the land and the Joe Blows estopped from being able to house themselves by astronomically inflated house prices?
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Market forces, you say? In which case you’re the perfect candidate for buying a bridge I’m having a sale on.
re Commenter K Warrior
New Policy Defence Budget Secrecy
https://michaelwest.com.au/biggest-loser-gets-buried-no-report-on-defence-projects-after-37b-blow-out/
Of course all the wars post ww2 have had the same beneficiary, the Military Industrial Complex. They like to use up their old junk. Individuals get promotions in wars. As I have said before, who are the major shareholders in the world’s MICs ? Obviously the military has been majority owned by the same crowd since Egypt or if you prefer William the Conqueror. The MIC demands relevance. But these wars we have are not serious wars, they are blowing up grannies in their apartments, for the amusement of the controllers. A bunch of minions are amused by this and it seems many literally have no meaning in their life outside of the armed forces. They cannot function without taking orders. Think about it.
If a real war happened you would not see the old 10 million megaton things going off as anticipated in the 1980’s. They have all sorts of stuff now you can barely imagine and they have been testing some of it, DEWs in Hawaii, EMFs in Venezuela, mini-nukes in Beirut, if you can’t believe that you must have missed the video with the shockwave, maybe it’s on bitchute. Other reports say the Christchurch mudquake was generated by a DEWs field hiding under the ice in Antarctica, the prototype being the well known HAARP in Alaska. You know the place in Antarctica John Kerry went to visit at the end of the Obama presidency. Yes skull and bones John Kerry, obviously good mates with Bushs, who work for Rockerfellas, who as Roquefeiul have a military tradition going back about 1000 years.
To continue, we also had Gates releasing his mosquitoes in Florida, all sorts of nasties reportedly trialled in darkest Africa, brainwashing of the public by highly trained compulsive liars in government ministries, and MK Ultra treatment of individuals especially in the case of massacre assassins whose activities are invariably re-directed towards public gun roundups. There are also every kind of self-piloting drones including underwater, to deliver some of the things above. The MIC is a huge business and is growing in all directions and no end in sight. The top politicians are known to be minions, compulsive liars, sold out the instant they are sworn in, so enjoy the sunshine while it lasts. Plenty of others living in smoking ruins already.
If one can step aside from the absolute horrors of war, it is really quite interesting to watch the various manoeuvres taking place.
Interesting though. Iran now wants people to pay for oil in Chinese Yuan. Any country (probably if you are friendly) can come into the Strait of Homuz and fill up, but no payment in dollars. Sidestepping the dollar completely and stopping the dollar from being used as a tool of war or control. This is part of BRICS and it will grow more.
Watch this space. This will frighten America more than the war itself for it is dependent on the dollar being the currency used in trade. Be interesting to see if the Saudis continue to demand, as per an agreement with America, that oil be paid in dollars. I believe there has already been a deal done with China.
The Middle East will not be the same after Trump and Netanhau’s war with Iran.
Hopefully the countries will learn to work together.
Maybe there’s no fuel for The Bush, but it’s a dead cert Sydney’s Royal Easter Show wont be troubled. Estimates are Australia will be running dry within four days after Easter…
From thence would be a perfect time for the imposition of Digital ID, which you’ll need to obtain Rations, as rationing is bound to ensue, when petrol stocks run real low…
Hey folks,
Want to see the fate of that Toothless Tiger, the ENTIRE Royal Australian Navy when they go up against China in the South China Sea?
[ youtube.com/watch?v=UH1S79l-m1w ]
That’s if they can find enough FUEL to even GET there in the first place, because like, you know, COAL is BLASPHEMY and stuff.
And just BTW, folks, why do we INSIST on picking unprovoked fights with adversaries that are MANFACTURED and ASSIGNED to us? And WTF be picking fights that not only greviously HURT ourselves from the outset but that we were NEVER gonna win anyway?
Hey folks,
How much Australian blood and treasure has been flushed down the S-Bend on that OTHER “Toothless Tiger”, namely the utterly usless BS expendable colonial expeditionary rabble marketed as the “Australian Defence Force”?
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CINnVHhIy8 ]
Fiv or six more years before Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post ride into town, folks, with lots more gratuitous roadkill along the way. Who has what it’s gonna take, the smarts and situational awareness and true gritty survival instinct, to last the distance, hmmmm?
Coming to Oz in ‘66, most things were made here, 98% self-sufficient this place truly was the lucky country with biggest middle class, in proportion to population, world wide.
All was good until fat cats decided otherwise, shutting down all local manufacturing and moving it offshore mainly to People’s Republic. Then they were riding push bikes, now they sit in Bentley’s watching Aussies riding push bikes, as they buy this place up for peanuts.
Pardon my usual boring rant stating the obvious, it is crown cabal communizm a triumvirate of global gangsters/banksters since 1913.
And they won’t have it any other way, as we sit googling watching machines together with imported slaves doing the work we and our youth should be doing.
Now the colt has bolted, we enter the hunger games with artificial insanity where rich get richer and we majority poor get sfa.
All done to plan, problem reaction solution. We’re wiped out, as 15 minute gulags are built up the great divide, no thanks to the pedophile slavemasonic freaks on all bases loaded.
Well folks,
Australia gets a mention in Alex Christoforou’s latest Duran report…
[ youtu.be/DCC6-UcOH4s?t=1550 ]
Point being right here, did ANY of you “vote” for ANY of this shit?
Not just involvement in the ILLEGAL UNPROVOKED WAR OF AGGRESSION against Iran, but also the BS NATO PROXY WAR against Russia in Ukraine. And also the ECONOMIC TORTURE and CIVIL STRIFE and PLANNED DISEASE and ROLLING FAMINE now looming large for ALL of us.
News Flash, folks, NONE of these Treasonous venomous verminous baby-eating mongrel arsehole bastards work for us, and NONE of them answer to us either. We’re sitting on a CONTINENT that has EVERYTHING we need to not only survive but to PROSPER in a dark and dangerous world. But hold that thought, because Australia’s not there for OUR benefit, we’re just the Useless Eaters waiting to be herded into the abbatoir to make way for the Lucifer-loving baby-eating poo-punching GANGSTERS that presume to OWN the joint, complete with their ARMIES of Treasonous anti-Australian democidal shit-for-brains Granny-bashing child-molesting drug-dealing organ-trafficking pig-raping mass-murdering hired mercenary thugs entrenched throughout every Australian state and territory across the length and breadth of the continent and BEYOND.
They don’t work for us, nor do they answer to us. But they WILL answer to Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post when the time comes, in about five or six years time. That’s when FINALLY, at LONG LAST, after enduring the DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS for many DECADES now, enough Useless Eaters will have nothing left to lose. REPEAT – when they have NOTHING left to lose.
About the same time that Klaus and Smeagol have been predicting we’ll ALL “own nothing and be happy” – those still left alive by then, that is. Hey, call it tough love if you like, but no-one can say that they weren’t warned.
P.S. Yay Super Trump aka Peace President Ginger Nuts! And Yay the Legendary White Hats!
I stumbled across this. Am I the only person who didn’t know about it?
Outside the relatively quiet town of Catherine in the NT, in a place named Tindle, a massive $1.5 billion investment is funding the US/Australian militarisation of the outback in order to deploy up to six American B-52 Strata Fortresses is taking place.
8 engine leviathans with a wing span of 185ft and with a maximum takeoff weight of nearly half a million pounds.
A single bomber holds over 3,000lbs of aviation fuel.
The signs of permanence are there, with the excavation and building of massive hardened aviation fuel bunkers etc.
The silence of the outback will be changed forever.
Worth reading.
I feel so much safer now.
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https://share.google/Qys2rDPYZdf3AHgVJ
Katter is right, we could have gone the self-sufficiency route.
But that would require a sovereign mindset.
Most politicians are $elf-$erving, they don’t care.
If refineries in Malaysia goes offline, hello restrictions in 7 days.
Screw the ACCC, it does nothing. It’s a feel good, placebo pill to mask the pain of us Aussies slowly being stripped of our every pound of flesh. Ahem, make that every $ of our flesh nowadays.
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And screw Nethanyahu and Trump too. They just reached into our pockets and ripped us off at least $50 a week extra in fuel costs, And that’s only the start before inflation and interest rates rise and food and prices soar in the multiplier effect. And when they rise they rarely fall back, you can betcha life on it. It’s a permanent steal!
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Quick as you can say Hava Nagila we’re at least $100+ a week worse off than before Nethanyahoo and Trump decided that we should fund their Make America Great and Israel Greater project for them.
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Not to mention we’;; also pay for sending off our boys and girls and flogging off our defence toys and assets to the Middle East scrap yard.
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Talk about getting fleeced and fkd over like sheep! We’re NOT just bovine, we’re ovine too! And we’re very discreet about it as well. Hardly a bleat from anyone that matters.
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We’re being abused and sold out by the very fkrs who are supposedly keeping us safe on our little Lolita Archipelago in the Antipodes. And they’re very discreet too.
It’s difficult to imagine what an unemployable like Bowen would do if he wasn’t shining his arse taking up precious space in our parliament. Really, how did we let these pack of incompetents usurp our parliament??????
There is plenty of oil in the Strait.
But only to friendly nations.
Australia has burnt its bridges there.
This is an illegal war. What are we doing there?
In Australia it seems to be ‘follow the leader’.
And those in the know, don’t like the Leader(s).
Dim Jim is such a moron, I can hardly believe he has a job, Australia has real problems.
Remember Aussie Cossack, he has been locked up 3 years for calling ‘bullshit” on Gulag Gladys’s CoV ID response.
He is in the embassy or consulate, the same as Julian Assange.
Aussie Cossack saying diesel in Sydney has been sighted at $5.50/l and the gov’t needs to drop sanctions against Russia and import Russian oil.
Mein Trumpf doesn’t need to worry, he has invaded and secured a weaker neighbour a short distance from the USA and now controls their oil. If only Australia had the same. Hang on, what was John Howard doing in Timor. And what is Chevron doing in the north west. What happened to our options ? Why is the government always trying to nobble us ? it’s awful
I took a sqizz on the net to find out that the oil sourced to be refined for Australia is mainly coming from Sth East Asia from countries afar away as Malaysia & Sth Korea .
There is some sourced from the sand dune countries and in that search I found that Australia does not suck enough out of the ground to meet our requirements to which is misinformation especially when you know there is oil available west of Roma and out there where McIvers transport carted millions of litres from out west where out there in the never never country out there behind the black stump; Like why aren’t we paying a lot less for gas is something I want to know because the last time I looked it was $1.40 per litre when in fact it should be 20cents per litre and the cost of diesel should be no more expensive than $1 per litre because of the cost per kilometre it takes to cart freight around Australia .
Who ever named Australia the lucky country I would like to know what are we lucky for because it certainly isn’t for the government we have to endure to survive like the pink batts fiasco that proves how crook the public service are when organising something that should have been relegated to each State & Territory building authority to licence contactors to comply with building safety codes of conduct but that didn’t happen did it !
Much like the Covid rollout that has killed to many to remember conducted in the same way left to people who showed they were not qualified .
Lucky for some unlucky for many ,too many to count who should have survived . .
It looks like the shtf big time ,plenty of gas all for export and capped oil fields no refinery’s what a joke.if you though the toilet paper was bad wait till the food supply runs low.
Hey folks,
Want to fix the energy crisis here in Australia? The MANUFACTURED energy crisis, folks, just like every OTHER crisis that’s being thrown at us and rammed down our throats whether we like it or not, in meticulously gamed-out and planned regimental succession.
Sturdy rope and lamp posts, folks, that there’s the universal cure to what ails us, when what ails us is a pack of sadistic merciless savagely ruthless incurably greedy utterly remorseless Treasonous foreign-owned baby-eating mongrel arsehole bastards who’ve sold their souls to Lucifer for thirty pieces of silver and are Hell-bent on seeing ALL of us impoverished and enslaved and starved and and ground down into the dirt and DEAD.
Judgement Day is coming, folks, still five or six years off, when every last one of these poisonous vermin WILL be hunted down and sent kicking and screaming down to Hell. Hey don’t shoot the messnger, it’s what I heard, and TBH, it’s sounding REAL GOOD, finger lickin’ good, GRAVE STOMPIN’ good if you get my drift.
The War Against Iran:
30 Years in the Making.
Global Research – 15 March 2026.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-iran-30-years-making/5891178
Good. Farmers deserve to go without fuel as they are bovine. They willingly pay tax to a gov that hates them. They willingly get disarmed in false flag attacks. They willingly feed the cities which hate them.
The more farmers suffer in fuel shortages, drought, flooding, no healthcare etc – the more they will wake up.
If they don’t like it, just vote with rope.
Farmers = lower than bovine.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) can use up to 50% Ethanol with Aviation Turbine Fuel and Coal Fly Ash or Graphene. Brisbane Airport is one of 5 Airports around the world where this fuel is available,
President Trump is now inviting Western Countries to send navy escorts for their Tanker Ship to pick up oil from the Straits of Hormuz. The Tanker Ships will be insured by the US. Trump says:
“Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Why not Australia???
theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/03/14/president-trump-calls-on-oil-dependent-nations-to-send-military-ships-to-backstop-security-in-hormuz/
The price a nation pays when they build wind turbines and close refineries.
Oil refineries are essential.
Wind turbines do not produce the essential and legally required 50 hertz energy.
Solar panels cannot power the grid.
Australia in big trouble.
Australians should demand that wind turbines be tested to prove output.
Thank the good lord we have Bob and Cairns News to point out the hypocrisy. He has been promoting ethanol fuel for decades; as a way not only to diversify our fuel, but to help the sugar cane farmers, when their returns have been low.
Well there you have it, boys and girls: another incorporated entity subject to full commercial liability, etc., and not a lawful government department:
https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=94410483623
You should try the Australian Financial Complaints Authority for their ABN number and see what you go?
Any department operating under an ABN is a BUSINESS and has no business being a BUSINESS-unless the taxpaying public are shareholders with a portfolio.
Why does 5o-Years-Bob not know this, and if he does, why is he not informing the public about it?
It’s all coming out, isn’t it?
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