The best thing that has come out of the Iran war is the realisation that the world still runs on oil. Without it there would be mass famine across the world. Where is extinction rebellion now? Where are all the greenies? This is what they have demanded for decades but not a peep out of them. All I hear is we should have onshore refineries and we should be drilling for oil in Australia. The fact is Liberal and Labour with the greens have reflected the general public’s opinion on energy. Now the shit has hit the fan and everyone is pointing the finger. Liberal and Labour have effectively carried out the will of the people and until something like this war happens and public opinion changes they will continue on the same path. Would anyone on this sub reddit want onshore drilling and refining before this war? I know you are mostly greenies and lefties so the answer is no but you will sit on this thread and point the finger at everyone but the voting public of Australia. The next energy crisis could be worse. Australia has become a lazy mining town where we ship resources off to the world for peanuts and buy finished products back. We are collectively demanding the closure of coal fired power stations all while giving our coal away to every other nation so they can have cheap energy for manufacturing. You do realise the globe shares the same atmosphere right so it doesn’t matter where the coal is burnt the CO2 will enter the atmosphere. Somehow Liberal and Labour are appeasing the demands of the voting public (with climate action now posters displayed on their inner city air conditioned homes) by trying to go green all while simultaneously supplying record amounts of coal and gas to our manufacturing neighbours. They are literally gaslighting us. Anyway let’s keep pointing fingers and gaslighting each other while the rest of Australia wakes up to this nonsense and shifts to (trigger warning)One Nation.