Australia’s livestock and rural transporters have welcomed a billion-litre national fuel reserve but warned the Federal Government the measure will only matter if diesel reaches the regions when supply fails.
The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association backed the Government’s $10 billion-plus fuel security package — including $3.2 billion for a government-owned reserve and $7.5 billion for a fuel and fertiliser security facility — but said the test was whether it worked outside the capital cities.
“Regional Australia runs on diesel,” ALRTA National President Gerard Johnson said.
“Our members move livestock, grain, feed, fertiliser and farm supplies across long distances every day. When diesel runs short, animals do not move. Feed does not move. Farm goods do not move.”
Mr Johnson said livestock and rural transport must be designated as essential users under any drawdown arrangement, with clear rules governing how the reserve is accessed during shortages.
“Fuel must be where rural operators need it,” he said.
“These are not optional trips. They are part of Australia’s food supply chain.”
The package includes higher stockholding obligations designed to support at least 50 days of diesel and aviation fuel supply and storage.
“The Government has made the right call. A strategic national reserve is long overdue and ALRTA commends the commitment to getting it done,” Mr Johnson said.
ALRTA also cautioned against costs falling on small and family-owned transport businesses.
Mr Johnson said the association supported stronger fuel security, provided it was built for regional operators and did not impose extra costs on the businesses that keep rural supply chains moving.
“Fuel security is food security,” he said. “It is also regional security and national productivity.”
All very well….but at the end of this month (May) there will be no more fuel coming into this country. Words coming out of any politician’s mouth is absolutely gob-smacked meaning-less. We’re currently in the mess Albo and without REGULAR fuel coming in, food and goods are going NOWHERE!!!!
Orica ( formerly part of ICI ) is making hydrogen for energy, they think they can handle it where Twiggy fell on his face by not knowing how corrosive it was at raised temperatures. Probably Twiggy should spend less time at the WEF.
Hydrogen + atmospheric Nitrogen makes ammonia, used for explosives ( mining ) and urea ( topsoil mining ) so if they can use hydrogen for energy instead of diesel they think they are onto a winner. They have got an Indian man in for CEO so probably everyone else is too scared. Elbow government cancelled inland rail the other day, pump up your tires boys is his advice to truckers. We could have got started on nice energy efficient coal-powered trains but looks like Chris Bowel will be importing more Chinese windmills instead.
Well folks,
I call BS. “Good News” my Royal Arse!
Closing the gate two decades after all the horses bolted and went on to breed veritable thriving herds on someone else’s land far far away, never to come back except only with enormous premiums attached to the benefit of all our adversaries overseas and right here at home nestled throughout the entire rotten edifice of what passes for Australian “governance”.
The stroke af a walking talking Pig’s Arse’ pen and a flurry of happy snaps and a media frenzy doesn’t make water into wine, folks, it doesn’t raise the dead nor does it FIX what these mongrel arsehole bastards have spent so much time and effort scheming and grifting and pork-barreling and trough-snouting and extorting and racketeering and blatantly SELLING OUR COUNTRY OUT to BREAK.
It doesn’t bring back the massive post-WWII Australian manufacturing industrial base, it doesn’t restore the homes of TENS OF THOUSANDS of Australians living on the streets and in their cars and under bridges, it doesn’t heal the MILLIONS of sick and injured and maimed and DEAD from their premeditated systematic fake “vaccine” DEMOCIDAL BIOWEAPON campaign, it doesn’t cut the POWER BILLS for Australians down to any sort of parity with other world energy producers even though Australia is the world’s LARGEST LNG EXPORTER and BY FAR the world’s largest COAL EXPORTER, and it doesn’t do ANYTHING to slow the ENTRENCHED INSTITUTIONALISED TSUNAMI of Third World immigrants now SWAMPING our country with neither our consultation nor consent.
Matter of fact, it doesn’t do much of anything besides gaslight the hapless downtrodden public, farmers and miners and homesteaders and assorted vagrants and children with no future, one and all. Best be learning some Yoga, folks, so you’ll be limber enough to bend right over and kiss your arse goodbye.
Where exactly is the fabulous “government” ordained ENERGY RESERVE coming from? That contemptible arsehole aka AnAL might be able to print suitcases of money for himself and his herd of Treasonous piglets to stash away for their obscenely luxurious retirements while we all starve and die in the ruins of our country, but he CAN’T PRINT OIL.
All of this happy pollie talk is just a little bit like THEM belatedly deciding to throw your parachute out of the plane AFTER pushing YOU out of the plane five minutes ago. Or maybe like thinking about pricing some fire extinguishers AFTER every house in the neighborhood has been burned down to the ground BY THEM.
Here’s hoping you got your food and water all sorted for the next few years, folks, maybe even the next DECADE, because you’re gonna be needing it.
Good opportunity to go droving again out there behind the black stump in the bulldust walking cattle to market
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