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Stay Home and Save Australia! Here We Go Again? · The Slippery Slope

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With. The red light.
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On I'm just waiting. For the change.
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Hi, I'm Jay Fallon, and thank you for listening to The
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Slippery Slope. So I would like to believe, I'd
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like to believe in the best in people.
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I'd like to believe that people are not out there trying to
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manipulate the system, putting things in place just so that
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they can take advantage of everyone else's disadvantage.
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When things start going wrong, when they see things wrong, they
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think, Yep, OK, we've got these things in place and now we can
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take advantage of that. We've already got this in.
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We can manipulate, we can control, we can make tonnes and
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tonnes of money out of other people's misfortune, out of
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global misfortune. We can take advantage, make
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money just billions and billions out of global war.
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I'd like to believe that there are people who aren't doing
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that. However, I seriously, seriously
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doubt it. Seriously doubt it.
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And let's look at what happened just a few short years ago in
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that little plan demic that we had and the people, the
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institutions that were taking advantage of it that just just
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happened to have things in place already said, Oh, look at this.
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We've already got this, this little gem in place and it's,
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you know, maybe you might have to pay a little fee and get this
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because we're just scaring everybody and telling everybody
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and putting things into place which says that this is mandated
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and you have to do this. You have to take this action.
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So maybe it's just the cynic in me.
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It's just the cynic in me. But I'm reading this article
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this morning. I thought, wow, this, who would
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have thought that this is where we're going?
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Well, I'll be honest, this is exactly where I thought we are
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going. Let's check out this article.
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If you're in Australia, this came out in the Courier Mail.
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Like I said, I was expecting something like this to come out.
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It's interesting. Read a grounded the headlines as
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grounded approach. Stay home and save Australia as
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always, As always, it's always hey, this is for your health,
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for your safety. This is to protect the children.
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This is to protect the old people.
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This is to protect, it's always to save someone.
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We're always saving someone and This is why we're telling you
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that this is what you must do. No ulterior motives.
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The world's energy watchdog has issued an extraordinary call for
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Australians to work from home, limit air travel and reduce
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highway speeds as the fuel prices deepens.
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The International Energy Agency, IEA on Friday advised this
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member countries, which includes Australia, the UK and the US to
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implement the emergency measures to decrease dependence on oil as
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the conflict, as the conflict in the Middle East continues to
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disrupt supply. You know, probably the most
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frustrating thing about seeing this, seeing this all unravel,
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OK, seeing this all be put into motion is as a as a kid, I
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remember you'd hear people talking older guys like people
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I'm talking when I was like, you know, young, early teenage
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years, these old guys in their 50s, sixties, whatever.
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Same. And this is just crazy that we
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don't, you know, we're not we're not refining our own oil.
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We're not doing all these things.
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We're we're bringing, we're importing all these products.
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It's, it's ridiculous how we're dependent upon other countries,
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upon this global chain, how we're not producing things here
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anymore. So what I find the most
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frustrating thing is if the every everyday Joe everyday Ozzy
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can can see this has enough enough forethought to see this
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is going to cause problems down the road.
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This is not the way to go for our country.
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Why? Why do our politicians why have
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they never seen it? Or have they actually seen it
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but they have just put their blinkers on, refused to
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acknowledge it? They know where we're going.
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They knew that one day someone knew one day this kind of thing
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would happen, but they're ready to take advantage of it.
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Am I just being way too cynical Anyway?
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So the the shock call comes as Australia's biggest businesses,
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including Uber, Virgin, Qantas, Kohl's, Woolworths, they've
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already began increasing prices or foreshadowing significant
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adjustments to their charges as they respond to rapidly
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spiralling fuel costs and the knock on supply chain effects.
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So in this statement, the IEA executive director Fatih Birol
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said Middle East conflict had triggered the largest, the
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largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil
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market. It's funny.
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You could. Like I said, it all comes from
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this one area. You know, everything is reliant
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upon this one area which has always had conflict in it.
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There's always been conflict of some sort going on.
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OK. And and yet everyone said, hey,
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great idea. Why don't we all rely on peace
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in this one area where there's virtually never been peace.
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But let's put all of our eggs virtually in one, one basket.
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Brilliant. So the conflict in the Middle
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East has created the largest supply disruption in the history
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of the global oil market. The report says three additional
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remote work days for those whose job allows it.
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These are the these are the recommendations.
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So three additional remote work days.
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OK, that could cut oil consumption from cars by 2% to
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6%, with average potential reductions of around 20% for
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individual drivers. Greater adoption of electric Oh
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wow and other alternative modern cooking solutions could manage
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potential cooking fuel shortages alongside other measures to
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conserve LPG. Well, golly Gee, if only.
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If only Australia could produce its own LPG.
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If only so lowering the speed limit on highways by 10
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kilometres an hour can reduce an individuals drivers oil
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consumption by 5% to 10% and overall oil use for use by cars.
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Other recommendations included avoiding air travel where
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possible, using more public transport and adjusting air
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conditioning settings in cars and trucks.
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Yeah, that that works really well when it's 40°.
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In the absence of a swift resolution, the impacts on
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energy markets and economies are set to become more and more
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severe. So this agency was formed in the
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wake of the 1970s oil crisis to respond to global oil shortages.
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And it said in the statement that about 20 million barrels of
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crude oil and oil products typically pass through the home
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Hormuz straight. Like I said, it all passes
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through this one straight and say, let's, let's all rely on
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that for all of our oil consumption.
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Let's all rely on that for our supply.
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So the loss of these flows has tightened markets, markets
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significantly pushing crude oil prices above US $100 per barrel.
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I personally believe, I've heard others report, I personally
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believe the, the American government is actually shorting
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the market at the moment and holding back oil prices.
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I, I think my, just my opinion is that oil prices should be
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well and truly, well and truly above the $100.
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It should have been blown out of the water, blown, if you know,
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way, way above, probably more like $200 a barrel, but yet
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somehow. So yeah, there's speculation
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that they're actually, I don't know if it's actually
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speculation. They're saying they've actually
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shorting the market to to hold back oil prices.
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So the IEA's intervention comes as major Australian companies
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move to high prices in response to rising fuel prices, with
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Virgin Australia confirming on Friday it would lift airfare,
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airfares from early next week. The funny thing, they've just
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recommended that you don't, that you don't fly, you don't take
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aeroplanes. So Virgin Australia said, oh,
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you know what we should do? We should raise our air, our air
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price tickets. But they're recommending no one
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flies anyway. So you might have a bit more of
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a problem than just raising your tickets, bro.
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Costs across the aviation sector, that's not really
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interesting. So let's get down here.
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OK, So the L&P, they, they've decided here in Queensland that,
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you know, look at this, we've got permanent $0.50 fares here
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to stay, which is just taxpayer funded.
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So you know, it's, it's great the LNP are doing it.
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But hey, it's the taxpayer that are funding all this.
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The federal government has assured the public, they've
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reassured us. Let's remember that the federal
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government, and not just this one, but federal government
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across decades now, they are responsible for the predicament
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that we Australians find ourselves in right now.
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Because like I said, the everyday Aussie, the everyday
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Aussie bloke, everyday Aussie female, saw this coming decades
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ago, knew that you shouldn't rely on a global, a global
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market like this and just have all your eggs in one basket.
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That you should be able to produce things that are a
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necessity for life. But no, we haven't done this.
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We put all eggs in one basket. We, you know, I mean they're
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talking about LBG shortages, but yet we produce a, we're, we're a
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major supplier of LBG globally, so we should not have a problem.
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So in Queensland, let me get we're.
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So while States and territories are keeping an eye close eye on
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the evolving situation overseas and shortages in their own
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jurisdictions, in Queensland the situation has not reached the
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point where the government needs to direct fuel distribution.
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It hasn't, but it could really realistically at any any moment
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with the market still expected to be to meet demand in affected
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regional areas. We're going to find out at the
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very last minute that's how it's all going to play out because
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the government's going to keep just keep soothing everyone,
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just keep putting out good little messages.
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Now everything's under control. Everything's under control until
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they can't hide it anymore and then it's going to be, Oh my
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goodness, we're all in trouble. That's what's going to happen, I
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think. So the government is instead
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maintaining real time monitoring of supply, prices and
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distribution constraints while holding daily talks with fuel
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companies and major users. The Demographic Group Co founder
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Simon blah blah Blah was blunt when warning about what impacts
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were still to come. The production of every good
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that you purchase is going up in price.
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Everything that you purchase is being trucked around, all being
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flown into Australia. The whole supply chain costs
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escalate as fuel costs go up. So Mr Queston Macha warned
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prices would be increased sooner rather than later.
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I mean sooner. We all know this.
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As soon as they announced the war, virtually fuel prices went
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up magically, even though the the, the, the diesel that was in
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the ground already in the tanks already was what we'd bought,
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you know, for a cheaper price. But somehow it magically made
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diesel go up a dollar overnight. And remember diesel?
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I'm saying this because my car takes diesel.
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Diesel used to be the cheaper fuel.
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It used to be $0.20 cheaper than unleaded.
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Now for some reason, it's $0.50 more expensive than unleaded.
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I wonder why that happened. It's not the fact that anyone is
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taking advantage of, you know, of the markets, not nothing at
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all. So anyway, it says in this
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environment, absolutely everyone expects price rises.
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Therefore, we have the risk that a business just increases prices
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and pockets higher margins. Yeah.
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Or maybe people just stop spending and just buy the basics
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and people start going bankrupt. Bust.
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So, Amy, just a cynic. Am I just a cynic?
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Please let me know what you think.
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I believe that soon we are going to see the government stepping
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in, pushing further restrictions.
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We will see fuel shortages. I think that's what's going to
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happen. I think we're going to see fuel
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shortages. We're going to see major price
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rises within our food, food products and with fuel.
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They'll probably end up putting restrictions in and not allowing
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people to use their vehicles whenever you want to go wherever
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you want. I think that's the kind of
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restrictions that are coming. I think they've already, they've
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already put things in place when we had the play endemic a couple
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of years ago, just they were testing the waters just to see
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how far they can push it. And now they're going to see
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again how far can they push it? What kind of things can they
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bring in? What kind of laws can they bring
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in quickly? What kind of mandates can they
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bring in? We've got all these hate speech
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laws that were rushed in, You know, heaven forbid anyone
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stands up and says anything against the government.
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What kind of what kind of changes could they make to the
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hate speech laws to clamp down on speech?
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Anyone speaking out? I don't know, but this all seems
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way too convenient to me. These things.
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It was like I said, if people 40-50 years ago, we're talking
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about this, talking about how this is something dangerous for
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our nation, we should not be putting ourselves in this kind
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of situation where we rely on global supply chains.
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We need to be able to produce our own energy, produce our own
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food. We need to be able to be self
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sufficient because we're an island nation and not rely on
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big boats coming in to supply us for everything.
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If people could see that, you know, 50 years ago, why the heck
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didn't our governments do anything about it?
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Because in reality someone else out there is manipulating
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everything. Someone else out there out there
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is manipulating and taking advantage of our disadvantage.
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And they will be making tonnes and tonnes of money, tonnes of
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money out of it. I believe that's exactly what's
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happening and the government will just be there again,
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testing the waters. What laws can they push through?
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What mandates can they can they push through?
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What can they make Australians do?
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They've already done it with the the plan endemic a couple of
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years ago, but how far can we push it now?
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That's where I think we're going.
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I think you need to get prepared.
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I'm not saying, you know, be a prepper or anything extreme, but
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have some forethought. Don't be like the Australian
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government and just bury your head in the sand.
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Someone wasn't burying their head in the sand.
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Some people knew exactly what was going to be happening and
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some people are going to be making tonnes and tonnes of
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money out of it because they are prepared and they are ready and
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they're just taking advantage of it.
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And now silly government is just going along for the ride and
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we're going to be paying the price.
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Let me know what you think, I'd like to know more.
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My name is Jay Fallon. Thanks for listening to the
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Slippery Slope. They just feel.
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The desire they will take me higher.
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I'm on fire because nothing's gonna bring me down.
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Nothing's gonna bring me down and nothing's gonna stop me now.
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And no one needs to be done. And sound on my soldiers stands
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on me. And nothing's gonna stop.
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I'm alive and nothing's going to hold me down.
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Got my eye on the eyes. Got my side on the floor it
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seems. Don't say Nothing's going to
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Nothing's going to stop me. Nothing's going to stop me now.