Not Good Enough

58 — Electric root wagon

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We're back in lockdown again, the government still loves fossil fuels (but hates workers) and hybrid cars are a trick to lock us into using petrol.
 
Victoria has the COVID again
  • We’ve got this.
  • Poor nebuliser guy.
  • COVID spread from a quarantine hotel worker to their housemate who worked at an airport Brunettis.
  • A man is stranded in the Spirit of Tasmania terminal.
  • Behrouz Boochani — “The border is part of Australia and it reproduces at home”
  • Scott Morrison says he won’t take over hotel quarantine.
    • Fossil fuel good, workers bad
    • ExxonMobil has announced the closure of its Altona refinery.
  • Labor minister for Climate Change Joel Fitzgibbon — “…we need to commission new opportunities to extract more crude oil”.
  • Matt Canavan — “To rebuild our refinery capacity we have to find more oil”
  • Matt Canavan says he would cross the floor to vote against a net zero target target by 2050.
  • Michael McCormack — “We are not worried, or I’m certainly not worried, about what might happen in 30 years’ time”
  • Barnaby Joyce — “Quite a high proportion will have passed away… that’s the only thing certain about 2050”
  • Matt Canavan thinks that the government should “do whatever it takes” to keep the mining industry going.
  • During the COVID pandemic, more than 17000 jobs have lost from universities.
  • The United Workers Union recognises that fossil industry workers need a just transition to new work.
    • It’s hybridmatic
    • Australia is very reliant on imports of petroleum from other countries.
  • Angus Taylor, “Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction” really wants to lock Australia into using petrol, even with hybrid cars.
  • The Prius is lumpy, sorry for perpetuating petro-masculinity.
  • Electric cars are getting better and better as the energy grid gets cleaner.
  • Labor went into the 2019 election with a plan to get to 50% electric vehicles by 2030. The Liberal party attacked them as wanting to “end the weekend” and “kill the ute”.
  • We could’ve had an electric root van.
    • Hunting for vaccines
    • Health Minister Greg Hunt has put Liberal party logo on announcements about vaccines.
  • ABC’s Michael Roland asked Hunt a question on this. Hunt accused Roland of “identifying with the Left”.
  • The ABC has given journalists notice they could be sacked if they Tweet wrong.
  • in July 2020 Greg Hunt tweeted an infographic questioning the use of face masks.
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