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The oil crisis has not only caused petrol prices to soar, it has revealed just how little competition there is among the big oil companies. A couple weeks ago the ACCC announced that it would be looking into uncompetitive behaviour by petrol companies in the rural areas.
The article shows how petrol price rises have been affected in different parts of Australia.
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260327-petrol-prices-are-soaring-in-sync-collusion-or-coincidence
I'm so fucking angry that the government won't fucking call out Trump's idiocy here.
Us "middle powers" need to be standing together and stating the obvious - Trump has fucked everyone by recklessly starting a forever war with no plan to mitigate the inevitable consequences.
Everyone is terrified of upsetting this man child lest he tariff us or some such. We're all going to bear the stupid-tariff for the next decade now.
If Australia, and those ideologically aligned with us like UK, Canada, France, and Germany, agreed to tax services provided by the magnificent 7 (google, microsoft, nvidia, openai, meta, amazon) until Trump is no longer in office, he'd be gone in a month.
I'm so sick of everyone pretending like Grandpa is still ok to drive to the shops because no one wants to deal with the consequences of taking his license.
Counter argument - the more we find out from this war, the more it’s clear that Iran absolutely 100% needs to be stopped. They have been developing long range weapons to target far away countries, and have been enriching uranium to make nuclear warheads. They are run by authoritarian terrorists and have been open and clear about their desire to destroy the western world.
Does the current situation suck? Yes. Is the USA annihilating their entire war arsenal and terrorist leaders worth it in the long run? Also yes. Former American presidents arearguably responsible for letting Iran get to where they are now. Thank god one of them has finally decided to do something about it. The world will be better off when this is over. It won’t be a “forever war” anymore than it already was before the US went in the other week. Iran is at war with the western world at all times.
What exactly have we "found out from this war" ?
Iran was stopped for all intents and purposes.
They have missiles capable of hitting targets significantly further away than previously thought, for one.