58 — Electric root wagon

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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