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Speaker 1: We have I think a couple of emerging themes as

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Speaker 1: we come to the end of week four of epic fury.

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Speaker 1: If you follow Australia closely like I do, you will,

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Speaker 1: like me, have been filled, I think, with a sense

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Speaker 1: of pride and surprise that we are out doing them

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Speaker 1: in adultness. I mean, yes, unions here in the media,

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Speaker 1: a pedal the usual bs on, more money for every

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Speaker 1: man and their dog, and let's work from home and

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Speaker 1: let's panic about the day's left of petrol. But believe me,

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Speaker 1: in Australia it is way worse. They have lost there,

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Speaker 1: you know what. They're at each other, not helped by

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Speaker 1: their state system, that tension between the state and federal

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Speaker 1: and the confusion over who's doing what and when and

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Speaker 1: whether it's any good. Stations have run dry, not because

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Speaker 1: they don't have fuel, but because they don't know how

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Speaker 1: to drive a truck up the road. Rural has been

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Speaker 1: going at city, punt has been going at the petrol operators.

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Speaker 1: Are the coalition in one nation been going at labor.

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Speaker 1: It's been a free for all bitchethon, driven by an

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Speaker 1: underlying panic, another realization. Despite the fact a few hundred

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Speaker 1: people have bought a byd. Apparently in this country, it

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Speaker 1: has become stunningly clear just how far off a renewable

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Speaker 1: future we actually are. I mean, by all the evs

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Speaker 1: you want and cycle to your blue in the face.

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Speaker 1: The cold hard truth is that solar and batteries do not,

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Speaker 1: nor I suspect will they ever, at least in our lifetime,

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Speaker 1: run a country. Diesel clearly runs a country. You put

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Speaker 1: oil in tractors and trucks and factories. We can be

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Speaker 1: grateful that our power grid is mostly renewable, and that

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Speaker 1: means we are better off than most of the world,

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Speaker 1: including Australia. But the cold hard truth is a small

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Speaker 1: bit of water carrying only twenty percent of the overall

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Speaker 1: supply can cripple a planet, or it will if this

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Speaker 1: thing as an over shortly. We've been here before. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Oil's been an issue in the seventies and the early

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Speaker 1: two thousands. Did we change because of it? No, did

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Speaker 1: we say we should or would probably? But did we know?

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Speaker 1: And you know why? We can't until the combine harvester

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Speaker 1: runs on wind and the plane takes off using batteries,

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Speaker 1: and every factory, farmer in person who produces anything we

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Speaker 1: wear or eat or live with? Does it differently? Oil's

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Speaker 1: it the whole. Renewable's argument has been blowing sky high.

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Speaker 1: The world has never used nor needed more fossil fuels.

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Speaker 1: Four weeks of a single scrap in a single country

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Speaker 1: has laid theory versus reality. Bear For more from The

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