Australia is sitting on a ticking time bomb, and it has nothing to do with the weather.
In this candid in-car conversation, I’m joined by my friend Sam Parkinson from The Driven, to dig into our country’s chronic fuel vulnerability, why successive governments have failed to act and what should actually be done about it right now.
We’ve known for decades that Australia holds barely a month of fuel in reserve, that we’re one of the most freight-dependent nations on earth and that our food security is tied directly to diesel supply chains.
Yet here we are, once again, hoping that geopolitical tensions ease before the bowsers run dry.
But this isn’t a doom video. We get into the specifics: which industries should be first in line for electrification, why redirecting fossil fuel subsidies is the obvious starting point, what China’s bus fleet tells us about where the world is heading and why cutting funding for the NRMA EV charging network in the upcoming federal budget would be one of the dumbest moves the government could make right now.
We also take a hard look at Australia’s EV incentive policy, whether novated leasing is actually delivering for everyday people, and what a fairer, means-tested approach could look like.
This is the kind of conversation that should be happening in parliament … but isn’t.
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