Dobbo Chats – Fuel policies (7 April)

0:00Welcome back to Rural Queen's Land today. Ben Dobin with you this morning. And now this is the real worry. Experts are saying that fuel rationing is inevitable if the war continues to go past this week. So look out, it'll be a crunch point. You said if the war ended today, fuel supply would remain precarious and petrol prices high for months. The federal government said yesterday that the fuel supply had been secured through April and into May, but would not overpromise on security in the months ahead. Now, I can't get over this. President Trump warned he would bomb around power plants and bridges if they didn't swiftly reopen the Horma Strait in a fowlmouth threat. Can you believe the President, Donald Trump?

1:00There will be nothing like it. Open the F and Strait, he said, you crazy bastards. Or you'll be in living hell. Just watch. Trump is post approaching the deadline prompt the global oil prices to rise. Chris Bowen seeking to assure motorists back home that there was no need to panic. I'm sick of Chris Bowen telling people don't panic. Does he get where we're at? We're now a bit into April. We've contracted legal binding supplier well into May now. But as I've always said, we're not going to overpromise in terms and in months. There will be challenges and concerns and we'll continue to just work through. MST Financial Energy Analyst Saul Kavanich said Australia was still living off fuel deprived of food oil from the Middle East from before the war began and it will dry up in the second half of April.

2:01Wow. Wow. This is Labor Government who want renewables. Don't want this. So they can say what they want but what they're doing is jeopardizing the ag industry more than I've ever seen in my life before. It is the biggest, biggest worry that I have seen and we've had COVID, we've had all these things but this is as serious as it can get. The government have to step in at some point. Now the worrying part of it is that they believe that they are well within their rights and everything's going along nicely. But I can tell you now, this is a precarious position that we're in. I wonder how it's affecting the average Aussie. Everything is going up. Wages are going back. It is diabolical at the moment

3:03and we've got to try and navigate our way through it. Now Trump comes out and says, Iran can be taken out in one night. He slammed Australia as he addressed the US in the White House where he gave an update and revealed how historic the rescue of USM and Unfolded. The worrying part of it is is that he kicked off his White House press briefing on the harrowing search in historic rescue. But he described the highly respected colonial and he talked about them being stranded and that the fact is that they got it sorted. He's had a crack at us. He dismissed NATO as a paper tiger again and lashed out at Australia for not helping the US in the war against Iran and it's proxies. You know who didn't help us? South Korea. You know who else didn't help us? Australia. Japan didn't help us. South Korea. Australia didn't help us.

4:05So where does that put us in our relationships with the US? I think we're in a really poor situation. I think we've got bigger things to worry about now than we've ever had before and that's our relationship with the US because Donald Trump has made it very clear that he's not happy with how it's gone. The fuel crisis is a worry. Our border security is a worry. And the fact is that we're putting at a risk with our biggest ally, the US, who's supporting. And we know Indonesia's just sitting there. We know where China is at. We understand the complexities of everything that's going on. So why is there not the support that we need coming from our federal government? Because they're of the far left. They're left leaning. They don't understand the complexities of it.

5:06And for too long, they've cow-towed to the Greens. Well enough is enough. We need to change this ASAP. We need to get better. I'll take a break, come back. This is Rural Queensland today.