If we have a food shortage it will be artificially created by the government and they should be the only ones to blame for mismanagement of our country’s resources. Already they have made the country poor by not taxing companies pillaging our natural resources. We should be richer than Denmark which has over 1 trillion in their national fund from charging the proper amount to companies extracting resources.
FINALLY an intelligent comment! This is just another psyop that they've created to make you think that we are in a crisis. All i hear is fertilizer this and fertilizer that, meanwhile fertilizers free from a cows rear end. But they wont tell you that, cause they'd rather fear monger to make money and to control the population with that fear. Both australia and NZ closed down the majority of their own fuel refineries not long ago, because the leaders new this 'war' was coming and they saw a way for more profit and control.
Food rationing..? Australia exports 70% of its agricultural production. Even if total production is down by 20% because of fertiliser and fuel supply, we still have more than enough for Australians. Exports will be down anyways due to the higher cost of shipping, which will ultimately reduce overseas demand. I feel like they’re just trying to make people comfortable with the inevitable price gouging that’ll happen soon. Make people think we’re “running out” of food to justify charging double for it at the checkout.
I am rural we run the moment the City folk think there is a shortage, there is a real problem for sure, and Farmers are mostly not allowed to sell the produce Woolworths and Coles rejects because Woolworths and Coles say no... so yeah.
@MysonkeepschangingmyID2014 having to throw out the rejects is outrageous at the best of times, such a waste. Can I ask, what is the best way currently to buy direct from you and cut out Coles and Woolworths? Farmer's Pick?
No...there pointing out the wrong side. Its the 80 percent of sht we import. Not our Australian produce. If you still under a rock and dont know what happened with Israel and US. Thrn you have no hope.
Exactly, there's a disruption to only 20% of the world's oil whilst we're undergoing and energy transition to EVs that don't need a drop of oil. It just means that prices will stay high for as long as this war keeps on going, nothing more. Everybody will put up their prices, they aren't going to go bankrupt like idiots when there's tons of money to be made.
@MattWalls-f9e Some people have weak minds and very less fortunate then you. So they panic and when that happens, don't be suprised if your house gets robbed.
From anecdotal whispers I've heard on the grapevine, our farmers already have sufficient fertilizer for the winter crops ... but after that is the unknown, I guess. I think we will be able to produce food, albeit at reduced output, but getting it to the supermarkets is going to be another story. Fuel and food rationing must be implemented before it's too late because otherwise food security will be decided by who can afford to horde it all at inflated prices, and the poorest will be sacrificed to famine.
I saw an interview, I am sorry I don't remember where, with a farmer that seemed quite frazzled and was talking about strategies for having to guard his diesel from theft, as they are already struggling to buy in some areas. Maybe one off?
It's not exactly fear mongering when the facts are there and accessible to anyone. 20% less fertiliser. 20% less yield AT LEAST. Doesn't even take into account the lack of fuel needed to farm, nor the fact that wealthy counties will outbid others for that remaining 80%, lowering the percentage even further for others.
You need diesel to ship these fertiliser. Back to the problem No. 1. Indonesia is already in oil crisis. At the very least we will have to pay a lot to get foods.
@jasondaniels640 I didn’t say there’s no war and a fuel crisis. There clearly is. But adding to public worry but publishing this only creates the problem we don’t want. There’s a time for this, and it’s when the situation has actually developed and the government has a plan to control it. This is preemptive and that’s why it’s fear mongering.
Fearing us into another lockdown ... if we didnt export all the quality food offshore we have plenty, sure we may miss certain items and out of season stuff but we would have plenty to survive on. Its not like most countries haven't had rations before too!!.
My husband works warehousing for IGA. The trucks are still coming in to pick up and drop off groceries. They usually come every half hour, right now they come every hour. They're still arriving. They're just delayed. I'll start panicking about food when the trucks start coming in every 5 hours.
I live in a fishing town and this week our wholesale fish shop closed no diesel for the boats- they had been there for over 50 years generation business... Heaps of business now closing....
@wallywho106 im sure the chinese super catch everything vessels will be out there harvesting anything moving on the sea floor and will be happy to sell it to you.
Even if this is true, it's dangerous to spread panic like this. I hate to say it but the government needs to put a gag order on the media for this kind of incitement. This is not a game.
Stop creating panic… if people like him cashed up buy all the toilet paper, eggs, and petrol of course there are shortages. You can track tankers coming to Australia online and there are more than we have ever needed because of demand. Should have had successive Labor governments and more renewable energy but also our own oil supplies. Australia should not have been so keen to globalise and maintained independence. Howard promised VFT’s.
We are a massive exporter of agricultural products. There would have to have SIGNIFICANT wide spread multi-crop failure for us to ever have a food shortage.
Took me 30 seconds to debunk your sad little attempt at fearmongering- *Australia’s quiet lifeline amid supply chaos as Indonesia says it will keep sending fertiliser and urea* "Indonesia has vowed to keep supplying Australia with fertiliser and urea amid a critical global shortage threatening winter crops due to the war in the Middle East. Rahmad Pribadi, the head of Indonesia’s state-owned fertiliser manufacturer, reportedly had a discussion last week with Australia’s ambassador in Jakarta, Rod Brazier, and told him the supply of the crucial materials would continue. “Food security is a shared responsibility because of our intertwined and interconnected value chain,” Mr Pribadi told The Australian."
Indonesia imports 40% of its fuel (don't forget that is what makes the fertilizer). It does have quite a few different suppliers but ' Key Suppliers: Saudi Arabia supplies significant crude, while processed fuel comes from refineries in Singapore and Malaysia.' Them saying they will supply us with fertilizer doesn't tell us what percent of our need that is going to meet.
Let's not forget that it was Steve Keen who shouted the loudest during the GFC that houses would drop by 40%, and famously lost a bet when they didn't. It's not that I don't respect his academic credentials, it's just that he shouldn't make predictions. He's of a particular school of economic thought that inclines towards a narrative of necessary destruction. During this period of geopolitical volatility, you'd be wise to ignore anyone making predictions, myself included.
I have a theory……is it that they are trying to get canned goods sold that are nearing their expiration date? I know that when I bought cans in 2020, I was more than a little surprised to see expiration dates within a year. Usually I see two to three years out on the dates. That’s when I started paying attention to fear mongering media. Is this a way of getting all of us to buy stuff we don’t need or use? MREs, generators, stockpiles of supplies….and the list goes on. Could this be it?
This could be true. My reasoning is that if people are stocking the food for long periods of time chances are those food will be more than likely to be thrown away from expired dates.
@thatswhatisaid8908The authorities have been telling us for some years to drive in fuel efficient vehicles, while at the same time give tax benefits and tax dodging opportunities for those driving these fuel guzzling, parking spot hogging, speed trap jumping menaces on our roads.
Well when most dairy,fruit,and other food is put out of business by the big 2 supermarkets and to our surprise most lines are imported and even own brands are rising slowly,a big country for food to travel,a premature strategy and future plans that this country is not as self sufficient as one thinks?
Victorian Government blocked a major brown coal to fertiliser project with zero carbon emissions. The project has moved to New Zealand. Victorians will never have buyers remorse until they are starving in the street.
They're going to drain your savings account and using Iran and other things like crime to raise prices for everything. Full comp insurance for 4 year old car gone up from $940 to 2k! beyond a joke! soon everyone will be living in poverty in this country!
I've been stockpiling food and gathering supplies since the start of the war. I now have enough to set up a food cache outside of the pantry. I will next level my preperations if oil production facilities are targeted in the Middle East. Also people should plan for a retreat from your home in the worst case scenario.
Forget about the straight opening If the usa and Israel push iran to far oil gas fertiliser helium. Will be years away All the infrastructure will have to be rebuilt. A helium plant takes 5 years to build and only 3 companies in the world can do it. = no semi conductor no electronics built. Fertiliser =no food millions will die Gas cant process oil to fuel Oil nothing moves.
Australia, with only 27 million people in the 6th largest territory and the 17th largest economy, is at risk of starvation? That was the biggest stupidity the government created and the media spread this week.
There’s a big difference between ‘food shortages’ and ‘starvation’. Although, even the strongest economy will fall one day and no one knows when that day will be. Nothing is indestructible and nothing lasts forever
How can we take ourselves seriously if we don’t keep more than a months supply of fuel available when over 80% of our economy relies on it to function?
Most farmers in our grain growing district have halved or are not growing grain this year, with an impending ELNINO and no guarantee of fuel supplies or none available now the decisions are made already not to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars risking growing grain, while 1990s prices are all we are being offered
I think that it important not to take the word of one economist. Most economist terrible predictors of a economic performance. They are normally great at root causal hindsight analysis. If you go back and check on Steve Keen's past, you will find that he called for severe downturns regularly. He got the GFC right because at some point any chicken little economist will get right if you keep calling out that a a severe downturn will happen. The odds are we will see severe downturns from time to time.
Food rationing?? Really?? Our Government can't even do petrol rationing!!! We need some sort of petrol rationing system. Even if it's only filling up on odd or even days on the calendar that correspond with your number plate. We did do that sort of thing in the past & it worked well.
Time for innovation, Australians selling to Australians, regen agricultural practices, bring back more farm markets and local selling, people being responsible for their own food a bit more. If ever there was a time for Aussies to take back their country through independence it's now.
Australia can't grow food without fertiliser - our soils are too infertile and most have been systematically degraded over decades and have low organic matter and therefore resilience.
I live a 4 hour drive away from the City our food gets Transport from by trucks run on Diesel. This Oil and Diesel crisis is definitely going to affect millions of people, if not billions. I do not encourage panic buying, but at least have your Emergency home kit sorted. Our Civil Defence has a list online on how to be prepared.
My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the road warrior, the man we called Max. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time, when the world was powered by the black fuel and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting. A firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
This story even includes scary music. Not saying it couldn't happen, but scaring the sh** out of everyone so that they start panic buying and hoarding food is probably not a great idea either.
Let them take the action either the conflicts will come to an end or countries will have to prepare themselves for world war 3. In both the cases it will take time to overcome the shock and truma.
They try to make you stress and panic 😱 how ever there has been plenty of of people warning about shortages and been prepared for a long time now so when you go shopping get some extra tins of soup ,pasta etc each week and learn how to grow something on your balcony or back yard or micro greens on a shelf and if you don’t need it at least you’ve saved some money and at the very least you have a new skill 😊
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Go to the supermarket and look at the label and see where the food is made. Even if it's made here; it's not 100% made here !
As long as its 98% grown, sourced or produced in Australia, it can be called "Made in Australia" legally.
@ClippyOffice97 I'm not sure about that. There's a difference between "Made in Australia" and "Product of Australia."
We're talking about primary produce here, not "made in Australia" labelling
Buy real food. Not processed stuff. Also when you buy fresh produce you pay zero GST. When you buy that processed junk you always pay GST.
Steve Keen also bet his house on a property crash we never had about 10 years ago.
Remember when Flannery said that Australia will run out of water coz of No rain? lol
@R4M845 Remember when Pauline Hanson said we would be flooded by Asians--oh wait, that did happen...
More like 20 years at this point. He even lost a bet about it and had to walk from Sydney to Canberra.
Yeah but what are we gonna do when the Krennek storm through the gates of Haddikknig Skraknig
15 years+ ago
If we have a food shortage it will be artificially created by the government and they should be the only ones to blame for mismanagement of our country’s resources. Already they have made the country poor by not taxing companies pillaging our natural resources. We should be richer than Denmark which has over 1 trillion in their national fund from charging the proper amount to companies extracting resources.
FINALLY an intelligent comment! This is just another psyop that they've created to make you think that we are in a crisis. All i hear is fertilizer this and fertilizer that, meanwhile fertilizers free from a cows rear end. But they wont tell you that, cause they'd rather fear monger to make money and to control the population with that fear. Both australia and NZ closed down the majority of their own fuel refineries not long ago, because the leaders new this 'war' was coming and they saw a way for more profit and control.
The war has funked up everything, everyone is going to suffer for the greedy selfish people that only think about themselves 😒
With every war, comes famine. Prepare now. Don't focus on fuel. Focus on food. Start growing your own and have multiple levels of supply.
DO NOT WAIT
Hit the nail on the head
Food rationing..? Australia exports 70% of its agricultural production. Even if total production is down by 20% because of fertiliser and fuel supply, we still have more than enough for Australians. Exports will be down anyways due to the higher cost of shipping, which will ultimately reduce overseas demand.
I feel like they’re just trying to make people comfortable with the inevitable price gouging that’ll happen soon. Make people think we’re “running out” of food to justify charging double for it at the checkout.
I am rural we run the moment the City folk think there is a shortage, there is a real problem for sure,
and Farmers are mostly not allowed to sell the produce Woolworths and Coles rejects because Woolworths and Coles say no... so yeah.
They'll still do exports.
If there's not enough fertilizer to grow food, and not enough diesel to move food to market, what do you think will be the result?
@MysonkeepschangingmyID2014local fresh produce shops accept them.
@MysonkeepschangingmyID2014 having to throw out the rejects is outrageous at the best of times, such a waste. Can I ask, what is the best way currently to buy direct from you and cut out Coles and Woolworths? Farmer's Pick?
Steve Keen has successfully predicted 20 of the last 2 crashes.
These morons are trying to put fear in the community.
No...there pointing out the wrong side. Its the 80 percent of sht we import. Not our Australian produce. If you still under a rock and dont know what happened with Israel and US. Thrn you have no hope.
@Punches-and-Prophetsenlightened us wise one?
So just pretend nothing is happening? Pretend that your country doesnt rely on imports?
Exactly, there's a disruption to only 20% of the world's oil whilst we're undergoing and energy transition to EVs that don't need a drop of oil. It just means that prices will stay high for as long as this war keeps on going, nothing more. Everybody will put up their prices, they aren't going to go bankrupt like idiots when there's tons of money to be made.
@MattWalls-f9e Some people have weak minds and very less fortunate then you. So they panic and when that happens, don't be suprised if your house gets robbed.
I think the guy who makes the music track set everything to horror..
You forgot one critical product...
TOILET PAPER! 😂
You know what l've noticed? The better (healthier) you eat, the less tp you need to use.
😂😂😂😂😂
just get a bidet
@mistermood4164 kmart have "periwash bottles" for only a few dollars :)
Watch out people can't handle thinking of running out of toilet paper more than food its unbelievable 😂
From anecdotal whispers I've heard on the grapevine, our farmers already have sufficient fertilizer for the winter crops ... but after that is the unknown, I guess. I think we will be able to produce food, albeit at reduced output, but getting it to the supermarkets is going to be another story.
Fuel and food rationing must be implemented before it's too late because otherwise food security will be decided by who can afford to horde it all at inflated prices, and the poorest will be sacrificed to famine.
Ethanol
Biodiesel
Here we come
Stop fearmongering get it happening.
@ElitaChicquitita-s3b For sure. This situation will certainly fuel some innovative solutions. Pun intended.
I saw an interview, I am sorry I don't remember where, with a farmer that seemed quite frazzled and was talking about strategies for having to guard his diesel from theft, as they are already struggling to buy in some areas. Maybe one off?
@veganandlovingit happens all the time scumbags stealing diesel but yes way worse now
Media should be shut down. The fear mongering literally incites shortages and panic buying.
Nope. It is real! Start growing veggies and beans now.
Be careful what you wish for
It's not exactly fear mongering when the facts are there and accessible to anyone. 20% less fertiliser. 20% less yield AT LEAST. Doesn't even take into account the lack of fuel needed to farm, nor the fact that wealthy counties will outbid others for that remaining 80%, lowering the percentage even further for others.
Yep, I no longer believe in a free media, I literally agree with media censorship at this point
DavidDavoDavidson the money is in the sensationalism fear amping
Didnt u just say a few hourd ago, thay indonesia is gonna send us fertilizer? 😂make up ur mind
Lefty media LOVES To scare people....that's what caused the PANIC BUYING of fuel too
@R4M845 lefty media lol more like ALL MEDIA
You need diesel to ship these fertiliser. Back to the problem No. 1. Indonesia is already in oil crisis. At the very least we will have to pay a lot to get foods.
@HappyDays-ls8udlol
Did the news tell you that?
@leftovercrass5210I have friend in Indonesia. Literally.
This is just fear mongering. Now people will start panic buying and they will CREATE a food shortage. Well done geniuses! 🙄
No, its actually really bad... you can pretend otherwise...
yeah, just pretend there's no war, no fuel crisis or no possible food shortage crisis incoming. Just stick your head in the sand genius.
@MattWalls-f9eIt could get bad yes. But this shouldn’t have been put out on the web until it was CERTAIN.
And then they'll have more news to report on. Genius!
@jasondaniels640
I didn’t say there’s no war and a fuel crisis. There clearly is. But adding to public worry but publishing this only creates the problem we don’t want.
There’s a time for this, and it’s when the situation has actually developed and the government has a plan to control it. This is preemptive and that’s why it’s fear mongering.
Fearing us into another lockdown ... if we didnt export all the quality food offshore we have plenty, sure we may miss certain items and out of season stuff but we would have plenty to survive on. Its not like most countries haven't had rations before too!!.
I'm completely against any form of government regulation on news reporting... but fear mongering nonsense like this makes a great case for it!👎
we are being gaslighted again.
This is the beginning of the Second Great Depression with only near a century after the first.
It's trump's aim to create the Greatest Depression. He is certainly obsessed with thd Great Depression and the 1929 stockmarket crash.
My husband works warehousing for IGA. The trucks are still coming in to pick up and drop off groceries. They usually come every half hour, right now they come every hour. They're still arriving. They're just delayed. I'll start panicking about food when the trucks start coming in every 5 hours.
We'll have to stop exporting our seafood to feed locals
I live in a fishing town and this week our wholesale fish shop closed no diesel for the boats- they had been there for over 50 years generation business... Heaps of business now closing....
I have dibs on the Geraldton lobsters first because I was born there 😂😂
@wallywho106 im sure the chinese super catch everything vessels will be out there harvesting anything moving on the sea floor and will be happy to sell it to you.
People can't even afford to panic shop 😅 this crazy
😂😂😂✌️
We already serve 300% of what we need, so a ~40% drop is still sufficient for everbody.
Thank you to the comment section and those saying this is bull. I have a chronic anxiety disorder and you have all made me feel better.
❤
No food. Everyone you love will starve. What are you doing!?! Prepare accordingly
@williamsnake6352I dont think you meant this to me?
@williamsnake6352 been doing it for some time we will get no fuel when China invades tiawan
we make food here, we export 70% of what we make, prices might go up from the fertilizer cost rising, we'll be fine
Even if this is true, it's dangerous to spread panic like this. I hate to say it but the government needs to put a gag order on the media for this kind of incitement. This is not a game.
The government loves us fighting with each other. It's one form of control.
The media and government are playing this Down. This is no joke. We are leaving Australia to a safer country
You’re absolutely right. This kind of behaviour from the media is reprehensible, and makes a potentially bad situation much worse.
well not many people watch these channels so the more observant people would get the benefit
@amz33894No country is safer if you have a war.
Cost of government crisis
Energy crisis
Fuel crisis
Food crisis
All at once how convenient.
What are you trying to prove here, TEN? This is a ridiculous provocation and you know it.
What would a Brit know about Australia? It's irresponsible to even air his opinion, as it could cause panic buying among the feeble-minded.
media is rage -baiting the people to do panic buying !!!!
Then the media will complain that we are panic buying.
We really need media censorship in this country, they don’t have problems like this in China, just saying
Stop creating panic… if people like him cashed up buy all the toilet paper, eggs, and petrol of course there are shortages. You can track tankers coming to Australia online and there are more than we have ever needed because of demand. Should have had successive Labor governments and more renewable energy but also our own oil supplies. Australia should not have been so keen to globalise and maintained independence. Howard promised VFT’s.
Food rationing or not the supermarkets will find a way to put prices up again. Just watch them
If these oil prices stay high, all prices will go up. It's inevitable.
Time to stock up fuel and canned food from supermarket.
We are a massive exporter of agricultural products. There would have to have SIGNIFICANT wide spread multi-crop failure for us to ever have a food shortage.
We only own 14 % of our mining industry, and we survive
Took me 30 seconds to debunk your sad little attempt at fearmongering-
*Australia’s quiet lifeline amid supply chaos as Indonesia says it will keep sending fertiliser and urea*
"Indonesia has vowed to keep supplying Australia with fertiliser and urea amid a critical global shortage threatening winter crops due to the war in the Middle East.
Rahmad Pribadi, the head of Indonesia’s state-owned fertiliser manufacturer, reportedly had a discussion last week with Australia’s ambassador in Jakarta, Rod Brazier, and told him the supply of the crucial materials would continue.
“Food security is a shared responsibility because of our intertwined and interconnected value chain,” Mr Pribadi told The Australian."
Exactly, we have actual allies that are helping us as we are also helping them with such things as LNG.
Thank you. I hope so. That would be a relief if at least that wasn't going to happen.
Shh, don't let people know that our strongest partners are in Asia, not North America.
Indonesia imports 40% of its fuel (don't forget that is what makes the fertilizer). It does have quite a few different suppliers but '
Key Suppliers: Saudi Arabia supplies significant crude, while processed fuel comes from refineries in Singapore and Malaysia.' Them saying they will supply us with fertilizer doesn't tell us what percent of our need that is going to meet.
Still need fuel to get it here and fuel to get it to the farms and fuel to get it to stores
I'm from Australia, your on your own Trumpy .
I went shopping today in Canberra. Costco, ALDI and Woolies. No queues anywhere. People who live from uber eat to uber eat will starve
Whose E-7 Wedgetail is flying around the Gulf?
This guy has a dismal track record of predictions but somehow he always gets platformed.
the federal government should mandate fuel rationing sooner rather than later.
there is NO fuel shortage. We have as much fuel NOW as we had 2 months ago and 75 ships on the way. Maybe stop listening to Sky
We have 3 oilfields and the USA is extracting crude from it, we need to nationalise these.
Let's not forget that it was Steve Keen who shouted the loudest during the GFC that houses would drop by 40%, and famously lost a bet when they didn't. It's not that I don't respect his academic credentials, it's just that he shouldn't make predictions. He's of a particular school of economic thought that inclines towards a narrative of necessary destruction. During this period of geopolitical volatility, you'd be wise to ignore anyone making predictions, myself included.
I have a theory……is it that they are trying to get canned goods sold that are nearing their expiration date? I know that when I bought cans in 2020, I was more than a little surprised to see expiration dates within a year. Usually I see two to three years out on the dates. That’s when I started paying attention to fear mongering media. Is this a way of getting all of us to buy stuff we don’t need or use? MREs, generators, stockpiles of supplies….and the list goes on. Could this be it?
This could be true. My reasoning is that if people are stocking the food for long periods of time chances are those food will be more than likely to be thrown away from expired dates.
Great! No more Rams, Rangers and Hi Luxes on our roads.😅
I was just thinking today that we should all go back to driving mini-minors. I for one, am glad l own a small car.
@thatswhatisaid8908The authorities have been telling us for some years to drive in fuel efficient vehicles, while at the same time give tax benefits and tax dodging opportunities for those driving these fuel guzzling, parking spot hogging, speed trap jumping menaces on our roads.
selling fear 😂😂😂
This is Australians first chance to see the WEF's public private partnerships in full swing.
I don't see the WEF posting multi billion dollar profits every year,.
ever think maybe you got suckered into pointing the wrong way you goofball?
It is absolutely deliberate.
I practise intermittent fasting every day. I should be right. 😊
The fear mongering is real.
Well when most dairy,fruit,and other food is put out of business by the big 2 supermarkets and to our surprise most lines are imported and even own brands are rising slowly,a big country for food to travel,a premature strategy and future plans that this country is not as self sufficient as one thinks?
How could this guy be a professor? Such a pessimistic person spreading fear. Terrible!!!
Start planting veggies in your garden if you have one.
and don't if you don't have one .........
This is major security threat our intelligence department should have red flagged this serious issue few years ago.
Believe nothing Steve Keane says. For years he predicted the fall of Australian property.
Victorian Government blocked a major brown coal to fertiliser project with zero carbon emissions. The project has moved to New Zealand. Victorians will never have buyers remorse until they are starving in the street.
Next week, they'll blame us for panic buying oranges.
No shortage in my supermarkets
Three days without trucks and all supermarkets will be empty.
@dogzdigitalit's not going to happen. Stop spreading the panicking. Panic buying is what causes shortages. Remember the Great Toilet Paper Debacle?
Wow! It's gonna be like that forever. So don't worry... As long as we have diesel...
Shame on the media for reporting this way. . ahead of a fact. Always inciting fear for a headline grab.
We've got plenty of coal, and we're surrounded by water .. steam powered trucks to the rescue!! 🤣
Exchange diesel with food of certain countries. Like Singapore sell them with cheap food in exchange for diesel.
The government should seriously consider developing soylent green to feed the starving population.
They already do, it's McDonalds
Can we start by eating the billionaires?
Hahahahahaha love that old movie
agenda 2030
They're going to drain your savings account and using Iran and other things like crime to raise prices for everything. Full comp insurance for 4 year old car gone up from $940 to 2k! beyond a joke! soon everyone will be living in poverty in this country!
@MYTRB
That's the plan, by the looks of it. Cosy in your cyber gulag 15 min city.
I've been stockpiling food and gathering supplies since the start of the war. I now have enough to set up a food cache outside of the pantry. I will next level my preperations if oil production facilities are targeted in the Middle East. Also people should plan for a retreat from your home in the worst case scenario.
Forget about the straight opening
If the usa and Israel push iran to far oil gas fertiliser helium. Will be years away
All the infrastructure will have to be rebuilt. A helium plant takes 5 years to build and only 3 companies in the world can do it. = no semi conductor no electronics built.
Fertiliser =no food millions will die
Gas cant process oil to fuel
Oil nothing moves.
This is getting ridiculous the fearmongering and lies is out of control.
If there were more people what would be the situation 😂
Australia, with only 27 million people in the 6th largest territory and the 17th largest economy, is at risk of starvation? That was the biggest stupidity the government created and the media spread this week.
Are you a farmer?
There’s a big difference between ‘food shortages’ and ‘starvation’. Although, even the strongest economy will fall one day and no one knows when that day will be. Nothing is indestructible and nothing lasts forever
Yes because then they can blame decades of mismanagement on one or two “crisis” the flu and sanctioned (illegal) oil 😅✌️
Sanction Against Russia are not legal they are not United Nations sanctions
you cant farm without diesel or fertilizer
Keep calm and carry on
so we should all start the next panic buy? keep that inflation rising!
Helium is also a by-product of oil! No helium no microchips! Factor that!
Maybe we can cut back on AI slop?
How can we take ourselves seriously if we don’t keep more than a months supply of fuel available when over 80% of our economy relies on it to function?
Most farmers in our grain growing district have halved or are not growing grain this year, with an impending ELNINO and no guarantee of fuel supplies or none available now the decisions are made already not to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars risking growing grain, while 1990s prices are all we are being offered
A blessing for many.
Hasn't Keen been predicting a real estate crash for the last 20 years?
I think that it important not to take the word of one economist. Most economist terrible predictors of a economic performance. They are normally great at root causal hindsight analysis. If you go back and check on Steve Keen's past, you will find that he called for severe downturns regularly. He got the GFC right because at some point any chicken little economist will get right if you keep calling out that a a severe downturn will happen. The odds are we will see severe downturns from time to time.
Food rationing?? Really??
Our Government can't even do petrol rationing!!!
We need some sort of petrol rationing system.
Even if it's only filling up on odd or even days on the calendar that correspond with your number plate.
We did do that sort of thing in the past & it worked well.
It's always the same. 30 days etc.. etc..!! I think the 30 days are up by now..!?
Time for innovation, Australians selling to Australians, regen agricultural practices, bring back more farm markets and local selling, people being responsible for their own food a bit more. If ever there was a time for Aussies to take back their country through independence it's now.
The strait of homus is open for negotiations.
Stop trying to scare people into war
Next week, Panic Buy, Toilet paper war 2.0 ETC ETC
Australia can't grow food without fertiliser - our soils are too infertile and most have been systematically degraded over decades and have low organic matter and therefore resilience.
I live a 4 hour drive away from the City our food gets Transport from by trucks run on Diesel. This Oil and Diesel crisis is definitely going to affect millions of people, if not billions. I do not encourage panic buying, but at least have your Emergency home kit sorted. Our Civil Defence has a list online on how to be prepared.
Hey Albo and other LEADERS.. SAVE THE FUEL and not travel on planes to Singapore and DO ZOOM!!!! They tell us what to do......they do the opposite.
This is classic fear mongering and not very helpful.
It's pretty true though. Outside of Australia it's pretty clear how screws you guys are
such a fine day to be a farmer and gardener..they realized they can't eat money...
My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the road warrior, the man we called Max. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time, when the world was powered by the black fuel and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting. A firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.
On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice.
When the comments are on media are getting data.
Not Australia! The cities!
Can't we import food, like Singapore? They import almost all their food and there is not any talk about food rationing.
Fear mongers! Shane on you!
YEAH, FRED ON YOU ALSO IF SHANE IS ELSEWHERE!
when you are buying your rice and beans - don't forget fats (lard, coconut oil, olive oil)
Do you eat rice with beans 🫘?
Buy extra canned food guys! Also buy plenty of vitamin C, it will be very sought after in 6 months time
Plant citrus trees. Grow capsicum and tomatoes.
Channel 7, 9, 10 and ABC should be shut down.
and only your approved cooker news allowed?
So leave SBS up?
And Netflix, and Disney+, and Facebook, and Tiktok, and all social media, etc.
Gave up on the silly box decades ago. Haven't missed it once.
@WilliamBong4567 nobody asked. Im guessing now youve found your cozy little echo chamber though
If this type of conflict causes any type of rationing then our government has failed us completely.
I'll believe what happens maybe by looking in-store
I got my 80 rolls, pantry stocked up six months ago.
Yep global famine, September.
I'll get more stuff this week and get 50kg of rice
Wow
This story even includes scary music. Not saying it couldn't happen, but scaring the sh** out of everyone so that they start panic buying and hoarding food is probably not a great idea either.
Let them take the action either the conflicts will come to an end or countries will have to prepare themselves for world war 3. In both the cases it will take time to overcome the shock and truma.
It wouldn't hurt a lot of people, they need rationing. If you can't live on 1 meal a day and a few small snacks there's something wrong with them
They try to make you stress and panic 😱 how ever there has been plenty of of people warning about shortages and been prepared for a long time now so when you go shopping get some extra tins of soup ,pasta etc each week and learn how to grow something on your balcony or back yard or micro greens on a shelf and if you don’t need it at least you’ve saved some money and at the very least you have a new skill 😊