Chris Bowen singing "it's all ok we've got supplies till May" is cold comfort. May is just around the corner. Somehow we're meant to be impressed that we're so low on supplies we had to secure extra deliveries which we the taxpayer are paying for anyway. It also highlights the completely shallow nature of Labor's energy policies over decades.

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Plenty of people are now scratching their heads wondering why we shut refineries. They don't understand how such an energy-rich country can be in this mess.

The answer is simple. Labor for too long have been promoting policies they thought would, and they did, win over younger pro-environment voters. Too lazy to sell the true story they went along with the populist policies that were labelled pro-environment.

People who use plastic every day don't give a damn that they label petroleum Mr Bad Guy. These so called environmentalists masquerade as being anti petroleum but use all the by-products they like every day. It's not about facts, it's about public virtue signalling. Private hypocrisy however reigns supreme.

Remember when it was all about global warming? Yes, it had to shift to being climate change. Warming wasn't living up to the dire predictions. One of the most ridiculous, among others from Paul Ehrlich, was that by 1980 100 to 200 million people would be starving. If you want to amuse yourself reading these ludicrous predictions you can search the net. Except it's not that funny.

These wacky predictions get given plenty of air time. It frightens the hell out of young people who understandably, in one way, call for climate action to avoid these impending disasters. Except they're not impending at all. So we end up with stupid policies to placate the fears created in young people by fearmongers.

Climate change was much easier to get accepted because the climate has in fact been changing for millennia. Climate change is not in dispute. What is a focus of disagreement is the degree to which man's activities contribute to that change today through carbon dioxide emissions. You often hear the phrase "listen to the science".........

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