"Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz"
- Is that what you call it?

U.S.A. attacked IRAN, and has blown up the global economy.

I don't care about your solutions
I'd rather you admit that your country is the problem.

'Losers First'

'Your government is run by pedophiles'
'They ordered you to die for Israel'

http://youtu.be/5G9DNx7xIIc

That “discomfort with ideology-driven climate policy is finally beginning to surface in public” might apply where these contributors live, but not here in the Dumb Country, where the idiots of the political class are trying to blame the Iranian affair for their own failure to maintain the obligation to hold 90 days of fuel in reserve.

The useless twats are taking no responsibility at all; they are telling us we can all ‘do our bit’ by not driving as much, taking off roof racks (which most people don't have) and pumping up tyres.

Australians have allowed themselves to be treated like children for so long, that they will probably take the garbage seriously! It's hard to decide who is worse: the political class or the electorate.

Some of us know that around 90% of energy needs are supplied by fossil fuels. Waffling about electric cars and the sun not having to go through the Hormuz Strait is utter horseshit; renewables don't provide diesel, on which the country operates, or enough energy to support the manufacturing we once had.

Albanese uses up Avgas going overseas to beg for oil - what's wrong with the phone or internet? - while dodging questions as to why we are not exploiting our own plentiful resources as we have done in the more prosperous and secure past, before losers and abusers like him got into power. He is even begging for vital to our food production,urea, from third world countries.

I wonder if Albanese remembers, or even knows, that the boss boy in Sri Lanka had to leave the country by helicopter after his government had decided that farmers had to use poop in place of chemical fertiliser, leading to the reduction of food crops.

Of course, old folks with experience are ignored in ageist Australia. But, we will be relieved of the approaching disaster pretty soon, and all the young smartarses will be coping with it. Tough titty.

The current tensions in the Persian Gulf have been a wake up call for much of the industrialised west. Or at least it should be a wake-up call... I suspect the lessons will be forgotten the moment the crisis passes.

While-ever oil and the products derived from it were plentiful and secure, the net-zero/Stop Oil zealots could get away with their fantasies. That the oil and its distribution was under-written by the US navy keeping the world's sea-lanes open and free was lost on these people although they never missed a chance to critique the US's supposed militarism.

But now that the US has decided that the opening of the Persian Gulf is an international problem and that they, the US, won't expend lives and treasury keeping it open, the industrialised world is scrambling to adjust. The PM's of Australia, Canada and Japan are becoming international nomads trying to protect supplies for their respective countries. Europe is in a quandary trying to simultaneously sabotage the US war effort while demanding the US use its military to save their economies from the consequences of decades old policy failures.

The ramifications of all this will be seen for decades to come. Already we see some in Australia calling for a policy that is effectively "Drill, Baby, Drill" and calling for more, not less, refining facilities, quite ignoring the emissions ramifications of that.

Nations are slowly coming to terms with the true meaning of "America First" in which the freedom of navigation is a world problem, not a problem the world relies on the US to solve.

If net-zero wasn't already dead, the current mayhem is the final nail. Fossil fuels are vital to an advanced economy and each country will now need to protect its access to those fossil fuels without relying on the US navy to do it for them.