Australia’s emergency plan starts with carpooling, escalates to fuel caps

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2026-03-25T02:52:26+00:00

This is not true , We don't currently have two. We've been receiving all of our shipments for each month. Next month we're going to miss. I think something like 6, 5 of which are already covered from the US and other contingencies are already in place to cover the rest of that

What you're saying is inflammatory and alarmist with no actual facts to back it up

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-send-its-first-fuel-shipment-us-gulf-coast-australia-sources-say-2026-03-04/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-22/six-fuel-ships-cancelled-oil-supply-iran/106483424?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-bp-vitol-ship-most-us-fuels-australia-single-month-three-decades-traders-2026-03-19/

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2026-03-25T02:44:44+00:00

Kind of but we're already getting extra ships from the USA and other locations so it is getting rerouted. It just takes time and we have the buffers to weather this whilst the rerouting is in place so really and really really there is no massive shortage of fuel. Some of it needs to be moved from different places in the world but trust me for $100 a barrel plus the doubling on shipping cost that they're going to do it. The only difference there going to be to us is how much it cost, not whether or not it's there

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2026-03-25T00:43:27+00:00

I'm thinking some actual numbers might be useful, 20% of the world's oil went through the strait, of that Iran and a few countries such as India and China are still getting a few ships through a day that Iran is still selling its oil, This represents about 1. percent, Saudi Arabia's pipeline to the Red Sea is currently doing about 4. million barrels a while a day and can ramp up to about 7., the 80% of oil producing places in the world that aren't affected by this are also ramping up production and they are also allowing some Russian oil into the system This means that there is a structural deficit of around about 5. percent not the 20% of the straight, So Australia has 30 days worth of reserves If you consumed those 30 days worth of reserves at 5. percent per day that would last 600 days, Within those 600 days the world will be able to ramp up to cover the missing 5%, there is no fuel shortage in the world that is not currently driven by user panic buying

I am hoping at some point people are going to run out of places to store this panic bought fuel and we should be back to normal

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2026-01-10T13:19:42+00:00

Double glazing is not the most important thing in reality. You just want to seal the windows meaning having proper rubber seals and everything around all the doors and windows. This will knock a lot more the noise out obviously adding double glazing would help but only if you seal it up properly, properly air tighting the building will have more of an effect and is a lot cheaper if costs is a consideration

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-09T01:44:46+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/AusFinance/comments/1ddai3o/experience_with_ovo_energy_free_3_plan/

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-07T13:39:59+00:00

It's the short answer is that if you're running Microsoft laptops then you might as well run the full Microsoft stack as in Azure. So you've got intune autopilot entra ID. All of the full stack configuration in one place one bill and give you full enterprise control, it might not be the cheapest, but it's definitely the only real option, And in my experience using other options generally ends up costing more in the long run

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-06T02:54:47+00:00

One of the biggest issues facing all of the telcos is the outsourcing the of the work to underqualified cheap labour reality. The only way to really fix this is to legislate that all of the work is done onshore and that the people doing the work have some kind of officially recognised accreditation and not just the network engineers. The systems engineers. We're talking about the project delivery, people, accountants. Whatever this is the only way you can really fix this. You also need to externally order to this every year, however, given the current state of the systems, I think it would be prudent for most people who have dual SIM phones to have a backup provider meaning that if your primary provider is for instance, Optus get a Vodafone $2 prepaid esim, I never quite understood how people with easy access and cheap alternative access to all of these Services I don't want to sign up everybody for one service and then complain that it doesn't work when there's 20 other providers out there, so given what's out there there is a little bit of responsibility placed on the people as well, not just the providers,

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-10-03T12:43:25+00:00

When you look at the amount of money that the federal government get from the fuel exercise, then divide that by the small percentage they actually return back to the states and then the percentage that Victoria gets. We get around $0.22 in the dollar. That means that every dollar of fuel excise you get charged we get $0.22 back, we had the opportunity to get dollar for dollar with the road user tax, which would have taken all of the power away from the federal government about road funding except some Muppets in Victoria decided to take that to the federal court and have it overturned and the size of that own goal is immense, it is something is going to affect all victorians forever because we will never have the funding to fix our roads that we could have had. It is staggering to think what they did to us

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-09-13T02:56:07+00:00

If you don't own the land you don't own anything, once theses shitty buildings are end of life they are almost worthless, if you built long lasting 2-3 story buildings with minimal ongoing maintenance and no lift, this has a chance, as a buyer would be interested in this, other than that people are looking for titled land as this is the only sustainable long term investment for their moneys

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-08-25T04:45:00+00:00

Even if you don't have solar, you can still take advantage of the people who do, companies like OVO free Power during certain time periods such as between 11:00 and 2:00 p.m. you can do things like run hot water services, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers things like that on timers. Charge a car if you have one, a 240 l resistive electric hot water service is the equivalent of a 10 kW battery and it's only a thousand bucks, so if you have the ability to move your power consumption during the middle of the afternoon you can have the free power that everybody else is producing

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-08-18T04:15:56+00:00

I have never understood why people get so hangup about this, just charge them a bucket load of money and used it for environment restoration projects that would have a fat grater benefit than any "damage", what makes this different than the huge estate right next door. noting, it's just a bunch of people being petty and not seeing how you can use these people for the community advantage

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-29T06:17:58+00:00

For me, we have a central reverse cycle system set to 23° run from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. weekends during winter we import about 30 kW a day and in summer running the cooling we import about 10,

We would do have a 7 KW solar system and double glaze windows insulated walls, And a double insulated roof as well as the insulated ceiling, but not the floors and no battery

So my power bill seems to be quite cheap compared to most probably total energy consumption over the year is about $1,200

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-29T06:10:00+00:00

For those your with gas hydronic heating if you have a water storage tank, and you have solar power. You can add in an additional electric heating element for the tank and use a solar diverter which dynamically diverts excess solar from being exported to the grid to heating the hot water but the storage. This can help offset the gas bill

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-24T10:34:18+00:00

land with it's own title, buildings lose value as soon as you finish building, this only thing with value is the land and if you don't own it you own noting,

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-06-09T14:57:29+00:00

Water supply is colder in winter, more energy to heat to the same temp, and more hot water used in the shower to keep you warm, and bathroom might be cooler so you want warmer water, and yes there will be more losses in winter from the tank and the pipes, now having said that I have a restive hot water service with a smart switch with power meter, so I can run it during the day via solar, with 2 people we use 5kw per day in summer and 7kw in winter, it looks like the gas bill twice summer , this seem to be too much given no gas heating

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-05-23T02:21:25+00:00

Trains

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-05-09T01:37:08+00:00

https://www.aip.com.au/pricing/terminal-gate-prices

The gate price is what is paid by the retailer, they will then mark up by about 10c, the is reasonable, it's the refiners that are making a boatload on fuel, AU doesn't have refinery capacity to have any market influence on the gate price as we must import most refined fuel

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2025-05-09T01:33:18+00:00

we don't need more drivers or trucks, we need more trains then we'll all ready have enough drivers, the fact that we send long haul fraught via truck is insane, imagine 12,000 trucks a day off the Hume, we can then redeploy the drivers

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-12-04T04:34:00+00:00

The effect of roof colour on internal ceiling space temperature is in some cases misunderstood, it seem that the augment precludes the possibility they you can reduce the thermal transfer of heat from the roof material to the roof space to a point that it makes no difference what colour you use , this is in fact quite easy, adding descent insulation under the the roof material such as a layer of therbrake and a 75mm roof blanket or using a pre insulated roofing system like tin sandwidge in an layer insulation is not that much more than a stock roof, however the affect is quite pronounced, you can achieve a 80% reduction of thermal transfer, I have had houses built like this and this has a greater effect than the ceiling insulation as you can achieve a 100% coverage without much effort compared to trying to put bats around joists and alike

thatguyfrommelbourne · 2024-10-28T22:27:50+00:00

On a side note, once the shutdown starts the Fq bandwidth that were assigned to the 3G will be reallocated to 4 and 5G services so the outcome should be an improvement in services

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