Australia Is Plain Stupid As Gas Prices Roar!

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Jan 24 2025 | 00:06:52

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Show Notes

Today I want to revisit one of Australia’s most stupid policies which are in turn driving manufacturing offshore, and hitting households and businesses with higher costs, and forcing the Government to spend tax-payer funds on energy subsidies for households to try and keep inflation down. We are in the unspeakable position where Australia, who owns huge, though dwindling natural gas supplies, has allowed large multinational corporations to extract massive amounts of gas from the reserve, and then transform this resource into LNG – Liquefied natural gas is natural gas that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and […]

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