Australia Deserves This Oil Crisis as a Wake-Up Call!
Shôn Ellerton, March 18, 2026
Australia is now paying the price for its idiotic stance on failing to be self-sufficient in terms of just about anything.
As of writing, Australia, and many other European countries are in a state of existential crisis because of the oil situation in Iran. And all because twenty percent of the world’s oil is transported through the very narrow straits of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian peninsula.
However, there are many other factors to be considered, I’m sure.
Gary Larson, a very funny cartoonist from the 80s, once drew an image of the Love Boat, from an old US comedy-drama sitcom, complete with happy and ignorant party-goers on the upper deck, that accidentally entered into the mine-ridden Straits of Hormuz. Just around the corner, there is a battleship and a dinghy with a couple of serious-looking but surprised looking Arabs with a submachine poised on the bow.
The caption reads.
‘Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Straits of Hormuz’
It’s a funny cartoon like so much of what Larson produces.
But so, what of it?
That’s right.
On the deck of the Love Boat, those partying away in nonchalance, represent those in power in Australian politics and those Australians who voted for these idiots.
Personally, I think it’s a lesson well learnt and well deserved. While the United States has seen a small increase up to an average of $1.10 USD per litre, Australia’s servos have cranked up the price by more than fifty percent to $1.75 USD per litre.
Why?
Because Australia, for decades, has destroyed its ability to be self-sufficient in manufacturing for its own country.
Without finger-pointing to one specific country, the UK did exactly the same!
Seriously, a bunch of school kids in classroom politics has more sense than many of today’s feckless politicians who have eroded our economy to near tatters.
It’s not rocket science.
Have those people who want to get rid of extracting oil from the Earth’s surface lost their marbles or what?
How did they get into politics?
How did they come into power?
Are common people that stupid into believing their blatant lies?
So, let’s see what oil gives us.
Besides the usual business of providing fuel for powering our trucks, aeroplanes, and other such machinery, there are a whole bunch of other important uses which oil is used for.
Notably.
Plastics, clothing and textiles, cleaning products, paints, detergents, vinyl flooring, road asphalt, PVC pipes, artificial limbs and prosthetics, masks, gloves, computers, TVs, and even products to create renewable energy like solar panels and wind turbines.
And don’t get me started on clothing because hemp would be an ideal substance, however, because you can smoke hemp, many of those in Government took the high-brow over-virtuous moral position that, tut tut tut, you can’t use that because you can smoke that and that would make it illegal!
Those idiots who have voted for successive governments who refuse to dig for oil are now realising that they are paying a very high price for their naïve thinking.
Remember those bumper stickers by protestors against drilling for oil in the United States? I remember these during the Bush days.
‘Drill Alaska for your SUV!’
Little do these mindless activists fail to realise that a major segment of today’s lifestyle is based on oil.
They simply do not understand and yet, these activists which are followed by a bunch of moronic retards want to shut down all fossil fuels but when the shortage of which comes to reality, they start to panic and break down.
In Australia, we have a skeleton of what’s left of our oil refineries, over decades of progressively shutting them down on the premise that we can simply rely on importing them from other countries with total ease.
I’m thoroughly disgusted that our politicians don’t have the guts to confront our energy giants. Australia’s largest export is natural gas but do the people get that gas cheaply?
No. They do not. It is sold for vast profits by these companies and then we have to buy it back at a higher price.
From overseas!
Our politicians in power are utterly feckless and, frankly, insane.
So, here’s my simple plan.
Force gas producers to provide for the Australian people at very low cost. There’s enough gas for all Australians to have it free of charge.
Yes. That means the Government taking over and running the gas companies.
But that also means replacing the dimwits in politics who couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery.
It’s never too late, but start building infrastructure to store vast reserves of oil until you rebuild your once extinct oil refineries.
Another thing for the Government to do is to ignore all this Native Land crap and just get on with it. France built its high-speed network successfully but only because they ignored the whinging Greens who tried to preserve all the heritage building that were in the way of the high-speed lines.
The solution was simple.
The French dismantled many old heritage building and cathedrals, and resurrected them piece by piece away from the intended route of progress. The Greenies grumbled a bit but they were somewhat appreciative that these heritage structures were re-assembled, though in slightly different locations.
But sadly, the Australians and the Brits do not understand this logic.
And for goodness sake, Australia needs to get on the nuclear route as many other countries have been doing for years with ample success.
Unfortunately, those who are in disagreement with nuclear will point out how expensive it is and point to a series of complex data points written by the CSIRO to prove this. I know for a fact that any amount of complex data can be spun to suit any narrative.
Trust me, this is my field of expertise! Read my piece titled Make the Data Fit the Desired Result.
But what we fatally disregard is anecdotal data. Hard data scientists will dismiss anecdotal data but this is a serious mistake.
If many other countries are using nuclear successfully in anecdotal terms, why can’t this be applied to Australia?
In other words, if something is put to use somewhere and it is successful, what need is required to formulate hard facts about why it is working?
If it works, it works!
Again, the politicians are clueless.
So, Australia, you’ve got what you deserved.
Australia has demonstrated what happens when you prioritise weak, virtue-signalling, petty-minded, and politically-correct initiatives instead of concentrating on the real important issues which affect everyone in the nation.
And that most important issue is energy.
Energy is everything.
Oil is even more so because we are so heavily reliant on it.
This is what happens when a country stops being self-sufficient.
The politicians and their even more corrupt civil servants reap the benefits while the Australian people wonder where all their hard-earned money is spent on.
But perhaps this will serve as a rude awakening that pursuing insane initiatives like Net Zero, the Paris Agreement, and reliance on international imports are gigantic massive mistakes which all Australians will now be punished for.
So, good job, Australia!
