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"There is the old saying that you should never waste a crisis. And the fossil
fuel industry knows this as well as any. It is, after all, at the centre or the
cause of most.
As George Monbiot writes in
The Guardian this week, the causes of this Iran
war can be traced back to the government of Winston Churchill, and its attempts
to engineer a coup against a democratically elected government, just so it
could get control of the Iranian oil company.
US president Donald Trump had oil in mind when he captured Venezuala leader
Nicolás Maduro, and then when he allowed Israel to decapitate the current
Iranian regime. Now, everyone is paying the environmental and the fuel cost.
The fossil fuel industry is wasting no time to profit from this. Prices are
surging, particularly for Australia’s lightly taxed LNG industry. The retailers
of petrol are profiteering at the pump.
The competition regulator says it is investigating, but most drivers will have
already made up their mind. They are already being screwed by an industry that
has no filters, and a greed for profit that can be made however foul the means.
It didn’t get much attention, given that panic buying and fossil fuel supplies
have dominated the media headlines, but climate and energy minister Chris Bowen
has made a few salient points in his speeches and media comments in the past
few weeks.
“The one form of energy which Vladimir Putin or a Middle Eastern crisis cannot
interrupt is the flow of sun and the flow of wind – that cannot be
interrupted,” Bowen said at the start of National Climate Week earlier this
month."
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
