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Australian subsidies give oil refineries the whole carrot farm while electric vehicles get the stick – The Guardian
The only viable long-term solution to our liquid fuel insecurity is to get off fossil fuels. Instead we are giving them taxpayer handouts
When I was a kid, every year in early December we would go to the Geelong oil refinery in Corio. The refinerys fire engine would cruise around, flash its lights and hand out gifts to us children of the employees. Now it seems like Christmas has come early for oil refinery owners who got a massive fossil fuel subsidy wrapped up with a national security bow.
The federal government has announced a fuel security package to shore up Australias two remaining oil refineries, in Geelong and in Brisbane,…
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