$789 per Australian per Year to Subsidise Fossil Fuels

[QuietB]

Australian tax payers pay $789 each - EACH - per year directly to fossil fuel companies.

Imagine being asked to write a cheque every single year to Santos or Origin or Chevron for $789 - every single year. That is what you do

This is 100% state capture.

How could any free market liberal defend this?

Why do Australians vote for this?

 

[nut]

That’s enough to put solar Panels on every house and building in the country …..

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

22k a minute.

Dan Hannerbery's contract is looking better then that.

 

[QuietB]

Apparently it is not enough;

Coalition tries for third time to let renewable energy agency fund technologies using fossil fuels

New rules could allow Arena to back developments that use CCS, such as that of ‘blue’ hydrogen made with gas, Senate hears

www.theguardian.com

 

[sherb]

Australian tax payers pay $789 each - EACH - per year directly to fossil fuel companies.

Imagine being asked to write a cheque every single year to Santos or Origin or Chevron for $789 - every single year. That is what you do

This is 100% state capture.

How could any free market liberal defend this?

Why do Australians vote for this?

"Maths" Zail, we say maths in Australia.

 

[nut]

Apparently it is not enough;

Coalition tries for third time to let renewable energy agency fund technologies using fossil fuels

New rules could allow Arena to back developments that use CCS, such as that of ‘blue’ hydrogen made with gas, Senate hears

www.theguardian.com

Fantastic, well done angus

 

[Hank Scorpion]

Gina Rinehart + Clive Palmer = Welfare queens

 

[Gough]

Gina Rinehart + Clive Palmer = Welfare queens

Makes Neil Young's assertion that welfare mothers make better lovers positively vomitous.

 

[Seeds]

Australian tax payers pay $789 each - EACH - per year directly to fossil fuel companies.

Imagine being asked to write a cheque every single year to Santos or Origin or Chevron for $789 - every single year. That is what you do

This is 100% state capture.

How could any free market liberal defend this?

Why do Australians vote for this?

Whilst i strongly disagree with fossil fuel subsidies. Those subsidies are made to lower household energy prices for non tax payers like pensioners and the unemployed and to help energy consuming manufacturers so they can compete with foreign companies who also receive subsidised energy prices. They are there to benefit these groups. At least thats theory.

now i need to reiterate Im strongly against these subsidies. Just like im against the recent tax rebate for oil prices.

 

[nut]

Using tax payers money to encourage fossil fuel energy use.

 

[Gethelred]

Makes Neil Young's assertion that welfare mothers make better lovers positively vomitous.

Where's a barf react?

 

[QuietB]

Whilst i strongly disagree with fossil fuel subsidies. Those subsidies are made to lower household energy prices for non tax payers like pensioners and the unemployed and to help energy consuming manufacturers so they can compete with foreign companies who also receive subsidised energy prices. They are there to benefit these groups. At least thats theory.

now i need to reiterate Im strongly against these subsidies. Just like im against the recent tax rebate for oil prices.

Lower our household prices or Japan's?

 

[Power Raid]

Australian tax payers pay $789 each - EACH - per year directly to fossil fuel companies.

Imagine being asked to write a cheque every single year to Santos or Origin or Chevron for $789 - every single year. That is what you do

This is 100% state capture.

How could any free market liberal defend this?

Why do Australians vote for this?

is this the diesel fuel rebate and now the fuel tax reduction?


oh dear


I just looked it up and they are taking headline numbers as the subsidy rather than the actual cost. ie $2.8B in gas forward purchases...............this is not a subsidy but rather off take.

who believes this type of report has credibility?

 

[Seeds]

Using tax payers money to encourage fossil fuel energy use.

I dont see many australians complaining about the recent petrol tax rebate. That rebate is using tax payers money to encourage fossil fuel use.

 

[nut]

I dont see many australians complaining about the recent petrol tax rebate. That rebate is using tax payers money to encourage fossil fuel use.

Government policy is encouraging fossil fuel use ….
If there were other options … ie an EV industry then maybe and reduction in fuel tax wouldn’t Even be needed.

Some countries you won’t be able to buy a petrol car in 2025 …. What are we at 2% …. Fantastic, well done angus.

Hundreds of amphibian species all over the world killed by fungus infection, but there may yet be hope

Since the 1990s, biologists have witnessed a sudden demise of amphibian species. So far, hundreds of species have become extinct after becoming plagued by a wretched fungus. From mountain lakes to meadow puddles, no matter the continent,

www.zmescience.com

 

[QuietB]

Government policy is encouraging fossil fuel use ….
If there were other options … ie an EV industry then maybe and reduction in fuel tax wouldn’t Even be needed.

Some countries you won’t be able to buy a petrol car in 2025 …. What are we at 2% …. Fantastic, well done angus.

Hundreds of amphibian species all over the world killed by fungus infection, but there may yet be hope

Since the 1990s, biologists have witnessed a sudden demise of amphibian species. So far, hundreds of species have become extinct after becoming plagued by a wretched fungus. From mountain lakes to meadow puddles, no matter the continent,

www.zmescience.com

Yeh, but do those countries still have weekends?

 

[nut]

Yeh, but do those countries still have weekends?

Yer didn’t want to add that Norways average working week is 33 hours and is moving towards 3 day weekends…. It might give his ideology about productivity a heart attack.

 

[nut]

Australia is basically a third world country …. A dumping ground

Australia becoming a 'dumping ground' for polluting cars as government delays signing on to international standards - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au

 

[Tyberious Funk]

Government policy is encouraging fossil fuel use ….
If there were other options … ie an EV industry then maybe and reduction in fuel tax wouldn’t Even be needed.

Some countries you won’t be able to buy a petrol car in 2025 …. What are we at 2% …. Fantastic, well done angus.

Hundreds of amphibian species all over the world killed by fungus infection, but there may yet be hope

Since the 1990s, biologists have witnessed a sudden demise of amphibian species. So far, hundreds of species have become extinct after becoming plagued by a wretched fungus. From mountain lakes to meadow puddles, no matter the continent,

www.zmescience.com

The cost of 'catching up' will become devastating in the long term, as non-EV cars increase in price and become harder to source, and we are required to invest in charging infrastructure. But that's ok... our current crop of politicians will be long gone, so it's not like they have to deal with the issue.

 

[Gough]

IPCC can't make it any clearer, this needs to stop now.

 

[Seeds]

Yer didn’t want to add that Norways average working week is 33 hours and is moving towards 3 day weekends…. It might give his ideology about productivity a heart attack.

I would rather keep the 5 day work week and have 6 weeks extra annual leave personally. These 4 day work week types never consider that people may not want 4 day work weeks. They want more leave.

 

[nut]

I would rather keep the 5 day work week and have 6 weeks extra annual leave personally. These 4 day work week types never consider that people may not want 4 day work weeks. They want more leave.

Most Awards in Norway have 5 weeks annual leave ….
Why do people keep voting LNP?

 

[Seeds]

IPCC can't make it any clearer, this needs to stop now.

If the IPCC want to make it clear they actually have to bother to do a cost benefit analysis. They refuse to. Im all for going to net zero based on my own and others cost benefit analysis but the IPCC has not bothered to do an actual cost benefit analysis themselves and show us what we save from going to net zero.


Even if you ignore that, you clearly have not read an IPCC report. It is the most poorly written report imaginable. Just utterly terrible in its lack of clarity.

 

[Seeds]

Most Awards in Norway have 5 weeks annual leave ….
Why do people keep voting LNP?

Yeah i want 10 weeks.

i dont see the ALP running on a policy to expand leave entitlements either. They havent been increased for fifty years.

 

[Gough]

If the IPCC want to make it clear they actually have to bother to do a cost benefit analysis. They refuse to. Im all for going to net zero based on my own and others cost benefit analysis but the IPCC has not bothered to do an actual cost benefit analysis themselves and show us what we save from going to net zero.


Even if you ignore that, you clearly have not read an IPCC report. It is the most poorly written report imaginable. Just utterly terrible in its lack of clarity.

Help me then, who should I be reading regarding this sort of thing?