nomadpete

That's a bit rude, Nev. I take that personally. Are you suggesting my fuel habits are part of this problem? First, I am not a Queenslander, and when I was I wouldn't deem The Courier Mail as worthy to wrap my kitchen waste. As for the information being all 'out there'. Well, a week back the Guardian did an article which covered the nonspecific government plans. Four levels but few real details. However the official line was:- "Australia now has 39 days’ worth of petrol, 30 days’ worth of diesel; and 30 days’ worth of jet fuel." So we have not used any of our reserves. And deliveries were normal. Nothing to worry about. There are numerous websites that claim to track 'dry' servos. The ones I looked at, the totals did not diferentiate between 'reported possible dry' and 'confirmed dry'. I cannot see any historic lists of how many servos are normally temporarily out of gas. Logically, in normal times it is not unusual to see a brief shortage. And such numbers would defuse the concern about the current numbers. The fact that I am keeping my car tank more toward the F mark, cannot increase my weekly consumption. My jerry cans will be empty again within a fortnight or so, and meantime I'm not wasting more fuel driving into town to buy mower or tractor fuel every time I start a machine up.

I started looking at EV's before the Iran war. Back then, there was a one or two month wait for delivery. Now when I go into a dealership I am confronted by frustrated salespersons who open the conversation with immediate apologies for the long lead time to fill an order. The humble Nissan leaf is old but still popular. But no use to us. We need either rear wheel drive or AWD for our driveway.

I really don't think that there is all that much hoarding. I confess I have been keeping both vehicles, and tractor near full since the start of Trump Iran war. I also filled a couple of jerry cans with diesel and ULP to keep my machines going - as I had lazily let them run down. I expect anyone on small acreage, with machines would have such "fuel hoards". But it quickly averages out over a short time. Maybe farmers might rush through an order to top up their 1000 litre supply (I understand why), but that still averages out as their seasonal consumption isn't changing. In short, I think there are signs that our theoretical one month of reserves are not being managed very well.

No, I don't see any FAR left party in Australia.

I'm surprised that there are any running out. Sure it's not a big %. Come to think of it, nobody mentioned how many servos run out whilst waiting for deliveries normally. That would put it in perspevtive. In country areas there is currently lower demand than normal, as OME points out. The autumn grey nomad migration usually starts about now but many are cancelling their trip. Even urban traffic is noticably down. So demand is down. But this is not going to be short term. Don't try to buy an EV. The waiting lists at present are 6 months.

Where did that idea come from? Australia hasn't seen even mildly Left Parties since the Australian Communist Party faded out.

Anyone who has done an outlanding would be aware that what looks great from the air, seldom is. Having said that, i agree there are multiple possibilities.

None of this was caused by Trump policy. That was our own conservatives's efforts. Anyways, just for light relief take a look at some proof of how the mind of the *resident of the (dis)United States works, from his public comments.... I'll leave it to our studious fact checkers to verify how much of the above came frome Trumpy's own Twitter account. I don't do twitters.

How lucky is the United States? Every time the go to another country looking for democracy, they find oil!

Agree, except..... it's ok as long as the wake-up call actually wakes up the slumbering major party policy makers. In the USA extreme, twice now, the rebel voters created a One Party situation which permitted a political leadership disaster. Now they are stuck with a shadow of an opposition party that is unable to provide any balance to the excesses of the incumbents. We seem to agree that our two major parties need to get back in touch with the electorate, and prioitise the masses. But I fear our two parties are both too conservative to move forward.

I am resisting my concern about the "fuel crisis that we had to have". However, is it true that 270 fuel stations have run out of diesel? Is our distribution system so focused on Just in Time delivery that it couldn't cope with a minor surge in demand? Our reserves should not have run out this quickly, and some tanker shipping deliveries have been made. After all, don't our refined fuels usually come from refineries on this side of Hormuz? The yanks are whining about their petrol price going up a bit, but we are facing rationing, or worse.

Is it normal to deploy, to rescue one person in a war (oh...excursion), “Navy SEALs, Air Force Special Operations, Army Special Operations Aviation, search and rescue” with “more than 150 aircraft to join the effort to rescue the weapons system officer…including 64 fighter jets, four bombers, 48 refuelers, 13 rescue planes and 26 intelligence and jamming aircraft.” Mr. Trump said he made the decision to rescue the airmen because "in the United States military, we leave no American alive." (He didn't think that comment through did he?) (He failed to add - “when you might be a massive, fatal political liability to me.”) Trump: HERO!!! Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/live-up...ants-bridges-ceasefire-push-air-force-rescue/

For sure that is what he says. But the easily found facts do not show any signs of USA improving the lives of ordinary people. However, the (minority) wealthiest are doing just fine, and Trumpy's family are achieving great wealth. So I choose to see him as a liar, motivated solely by self interest. No, I have neither rage nor agression. Only disappointment. Ours is a similar path to that which has led USA to it's present situation. One which Trump seems to be accelerating. We should take that as a warning. But then along came synthetics (oil based) and we fell off the sheep's back. Then failed to monetise our mining industry, which only benefits a minority. I hold both major political parties for this, as do a lot of USAnians for their situation. Thank you. I am not trying to convince you. I am only trying to explain why I feel the way I do, about current politics. My only proviso is that I believe if someone important tells lies or bullies others, it should be called out. Anyone, whatever race, gender, political party. It seems to me that Trump consistently makes himself an easy target, and I see no proof of him "Making America Great".

https://newrepublic.com/article/208580/transcript-trump-war-tirade-backfires-gop-panics-what-hell Yeah, I know it's from a lefty echo chamber, but there are a couple of good quotes. Re: DT's recent 'speech' about The Iran Situation: Apart from saying that the Strait of Hotmus will open up naturally one day.... "He thinks he’s Superman. And of course, that’s fine when you jump off the building. It’s just a problem when you hit the ground."

The "truth social" chart should have shown something like this.... An approval rating nearly Nixonish

Does this graph show that Donold is controlling the media by 188% ?

Couldn't disagree more, Nev. It takes a special kind of skill to consistently and thoroughly screw up a country. Didn't someone recently say that:- "If, hypothetically, D J Trump was a Russian operative sent to destroy USA, is there anything he would do differently? I think not."

That's your punishment for swanning around the mainland watching plane porn.

Remember.... Never interrupt your enemy whilst they are shooting themselves in the foot. (Or summat like that)

Some people are just more dense than others. I think it's true. When I was young, my schoolteacher said something like that about us.

You need to ride to work more often.

When I was young I thought love made my world go around, but.... It's wealth that does it!

The bestest goldest world leader has got it covered. Already, the *resident of the United States now states that the reason for this war (which isn't a WAR) is to destroy the nuclear weapons program that he claims to have already destroyed last year, while simultaneously claiming that the objective of the war is to open the strait of Hormuz that was already open before he started the war, but he is not going to open it. He doesn't need anyone's help to win the war. He already won the war on the first day anyway, and is currently winning the war, but demands help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. I hope this clears up any confusion, which was all caused by corrupt Democrat fake news outlets.

So, storming the Capitol was a great idea, after all..... Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants and others present on Capitol grounds have filed a class action in Florida against DC + Capitol police for their use of force during the riot. Many of those on the list were convicted of felonies (and pardoned by Trump). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.456524/gov.uscourts.flmd.456524.1.0.pdf