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"If we’d treated electric vehicles as a nation‑building priority back in 2019,
rather than a culture‑war prop, Australia would be in a very different place
today.
On reasonable, conservative assumptions, we’d have roughly three times as many
EVs on the road as we do now, and they’d be displacing on the order of 100
million litres of petrol and diesel every month.
That’s fuel we simply wouldn’t need to import or burn. Instead, as oil markets
tighten after the latest “special military action” in Iran, we’re scrambling to
push an extra 100 million litres a month of high‑sulphur, dirtier fuel into the
Australian market just to keep the pumps flowing.
In other words: the volume of “dirty” petrol we’re hurriedly unleashing now is
about the same as the “clean” fuel savings we could already have banked if we
hadn’t spent the last decade sneering at EVs."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
