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pixeltackle Apr 15, 2026 +169

The videos in Geelong sub look like it's still very uncontrolled This facility refines ~10% of liquid fuel used in Australia ... not good

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Fine-Concern-8238 Apr 16, 2026 +9

50% of Victoria's fuel iirc

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dildoeye Apr 16, 2026 -1

That’s only because the facility is there though . It’s not really different than any other place in Australia. People just love the drama of it like Covid lockdown but it’s all bs in the end. We will all be fine.

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dildoeye Apr 16, 2026 -7

There’s still 90% coming from other places though. What’s the big deal?

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Ancertainindividual Apr 16, 2026 +2

That's still alot, especially when we are already doing worse than most other developed countries (some of the biggest price increases). Especially bad for us in Victoria (50% of our liquid fuel supply).

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Velpex123 Apr 17, 2026 +1

Stressed supply chain, increase in already bloated cost

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pixeltackle Apr 16, 2026

Found the person willing to have their fuel supply cut off. This one right here. Sees no issues with it, happy to give up his portion of fuel as it's just 10% of the country's supply so what's the big deal?

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habitual_citizen Apr 15, 2026 +31

I live nearby. Woke up at 3am with the booming sound of what I can only describe as jet engine warming up from the roar of the fire. It’s now nearly 8am and the fire is mostly under control. Went and filled up my car at 4am just in case fuel prices double :) :) :)

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TattooedBear Apr 15, 2026 +3

Incase? When.

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habitual_citizen Apr 15, 2026 +4

You’re so right I’m so stupid! :))))

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TattooedBear Apr 15, 2026 +1

Push bikes for all of us now.

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AdSevere1274 Apr 15, 2026 +144

Icing on the war cake.. not from this article: >Australia exports about **96%** of its domestic crude oil production, primarily because most of it is a light "condensate" that is better suited for specialized refineries in Asia (like those in Singapore) than for Australia's own

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tricksterloki Apr 15, 2026 +58

The US exports a significant chunk of its oil to external refineries, and a significant chunk of US refineries import oil for similar reasons.

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Desert-Noir Apr 15, 2026 +36

God forbid we ever built our own refineries to handle this. F*** our country is so short sighted.

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AdSevere1274 Apr 15, 2026 +26

Yup.. the same here in Canada.. Alberta produces heavy oil and refines only a small portion of it; most of it is sent to USA to refine.. and they sell it back..

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Desert-Noir Apr 15, 2026 +9

Always chasing quarterly profits and our govt allows this at the expense of our sovereignty.

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AdSevere1274 Apr 15, 2026 -3

Americans demand to take over oily province as their 51st state... Although they get the oil at d******* an sell it back to us with a profit.. You don't have an elephant at your door like us.

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yesurhonour Apr 16, 2026 +3

oh we do, it's called Asia

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viccityguy2k Apr 16, 2026 +2

We like to do the same with logs

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AdSevere1274 Apr 16, 2026 -1

LOL. Americans own most of our wood harvesting companies and they own more oil producers in Canada than us Canadians... We can up you any time...

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korbey87 Apr 16, 2026 +1

Weird stance but okay

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DYTREM Apr 17, 2026 +2

Sell it at a 65 cents on the dollar to the US because it is landlocked and they sell the refined fuel back to us as full USD market price. No wonder our dollar does not goes up when the price of oil does. Way to go, Canada. We can be so dumb and naive at times.

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Helluscus Apr 16, 2026 +2

Believe it or not, The coalition fought to sell off our refineries, and even got rid of Australia dedicated oil tankers, I believe we used to have 14, and the liberal party sold enough that now we have 2

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xdvesper Apr 16, 2026 +5

Yeah well yet taxpayers complained about paying billions in subsidies for local car production so the government cut the subsidies and local car production ended. We had local cars, but people bought foreign ones because they could do it cheaper. We had local fuel refineries, and there is basically no difference at all between local and foreign so there isn't even any patriotic reason that someone would go to a fuel pump and go yeah I'm going to pay 40% more for locally produced.

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Desert-Noir Apr 16, 2026 +6

What? No, the point is maintaining energy sovereignty for times like these. It isn’t about a choice, it is about security.

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the_joneses_ Apr 16, 2026 -1

Only time I can imagine it would be any use is in a Mad Max world where you either can't trust any other country to not steal your oil when you give it to them for refining, or you are worried about pirates stealing your oil or fuel ships and you cant protect them with your navy.

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Desert-Noir Apr 16, 2026 +4

Or shipping lanes are closed due to war or we are being attacked etc. Sovereign capability is for the worst of times, not the best of them.

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TitanicJedi Apr 15, 2026 -1

Anything for carbon credits!

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count023 Apr 16, 2026 +12

yup, our dumbass conservatives ensured that we have to import all the fuel we need, as opposed to making ot on shore. Genius move, wasn't it?

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Virtblue Apr 15, 2026 +2

well if they need to rebuild they can respec.

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hazeyAnimal Apr 15, 2026 -6

Labor costs are too high to build another

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Virtblue Apr 16, 2026 +1

Dude they will no dobt fix this one regardless of labour cost.

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livinginahologram Apr 16, 2026

>Icing on the war cake.. >not from this article: >>Australia exports about **96%** of its domestic crude oil production, primarily because most of it is a light "condensate" that is better suited for specialized refineries in Asia (like those in Singapore) than for Australia's own Given all the evidence we have that points to the Trump administration doing everything they can to manipulate the stock market and increase US oil and LNG profits, I'm going to say an intentional sabotage of this oil refinery would fit that narrative.

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MikeRowePeenis Apr 15, 2026 +89

Not sus at all

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elcho1911 Apr 16, 2026 +2

Is it though? Kinda makes sense a fire which isn't rare would happen during a shortage if they're pushing it

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TupperwareNinja Apr 16, 2026 +1

Crazy how well alternative oil supplies are going for the rest of us

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Broad-Lobster7470 Apr 15, 2026 +54

So Iran war breaks out. Seriously limiting energy. Australia natural gas was hit by a typhoon. And now this fire. God does not want Australia to have energy I guess.

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Desert-Noir Apr 15, 2026 +12

We export all our energy, our successive governments don’t want us to have energy either.

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Nexism Apr 15, 2026 +13

God gave Australia sunlight. Energy dependency risk is on our undoing.

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ziegs11 Apr 15, 2026 +21

Don't call him God, that's what sustains him

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RumMixFeel Apr 15, 2026 -3

Gods probably pissed. He's probably like "I made dinosaurs into oil to test your faith, not so you can destroy the world"

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ziegs11 Apr 15, 2026 +7

How convenient

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litciggie Apr 15, 2026 +20

🙌🙌🙌Geelong mentioned 🚬🚬👏👏🍺🍺🍺🙌🙌

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New_Bed171 Apr 15, 2026 +7

Haha the cigarettes And the username!

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tillnatten Apr 16, 2026 +2

Oi, give us ya litah, ciggy butt brainnn

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Ok-Addition1264 Apr 15, 2026 +52

Woah.. thats the last thing an allied country needs during the trump energy crisis.

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RhubarbAfter4008 Apr 15, 2026 +29

Rather suspicious. I think there was a refinery fire in the US recently too.

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CarRamRob Apr 15, 2026 +24

You should check out how many LNG plants had major outages in 2022.

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keithps Apr 16, 2026 +5

Not really, refineries catch on fire pretty easy and it happens quite often. If you dig deep enough you can easily find a dozen a year, some are just more dramatic than others. Turns out, handling massive volumes of highly flammable stuff comes with a risk of that stuff catching on fire.

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ThingNo5813 Apr 15, 2026 +2

There have been 3. Texas 3 weeks ago and one in Louisiana back in August and another one near LAX in El Segundo, CA in October, 2025.

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LadySwingsBothWays Apr 15, 2026 +1

Texas

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FingerLickingticklin Apr 15, 2026 -12

When everything is automated it only takes a key click from who knows where to lift something on fire

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catscanmeow Apr 15, 2026 -2

lift?

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Due_Night414 Apr 15, 2026 +22

Who needs clean and renewable energy when there’s this pollutant one that will run out soon? S/

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RhubarbAfter4008 Apr 15, 2026 +16

This "pollutant one" is the foundation of everything right now. It's not just energy; it's raw material for things like fertilizer. Mass starvation is a real risk right now; I hope you grow a good garden.

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meechu Apr 15, 2026 +11

Less than 20% of processed crude is used for all the none energy specific stuff.

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intricate_strands Apr 15, 2026 +6

We've only had about 3 decades(ignoring all the decades corporations and governments tried to hide what they knew) to slowly, kicking and screaming the entire way, not even close to fully transition to other energy forms. I hope society gets through this energy crisis because we're going to need all the crisis experience we can get with the way we're doing the opposite of addressing the climate crisis.

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RhubarbAfter4008 Apr 16, 2026

It is comforting to believe that politics is the only barrier to finding an effective replacement for ultra-concentrated solar enery from millions of years of photosynthesis that we can just dig/suck out of the ground. The truth is a lot more stark I think.

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Due_Night414 Apr 15, 2026 +8

The pollutant one is the thing that is getting blown up and can’t be replicated identically to continue our use of it. I fully understand how it’s used and what it’s used for. My beef isn’t with oil but with how it’s being used and how it’s being destroyed. If you can’t afford to eat because oil prices are so high that said fertilizer can’t be afforded then what happens? I’m not saying get rid of oil. I’m saying use it WITH renewable energy. Frump over here in America wants to make coal great again! Like come on, man. I get that the wind farms block views of your precious golf courses but really?

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Secure_Ant1085 Apr 16, 2026 +1

Well the majority of it is burnt for energy.

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charnwoodian Apr 15, 2026 +3

People say this like we aren’t in the midst of a clean energy revolution. The only limiting factor is technology. Shit doesn’t happen overnight. Modern society only exists because of fossil fuels, it’s a miracle that within a few short decades we are already making progress to the next energy tech. Your conspiracy theory politics about energy policy is nonsense. This war proves that you can’t give up oil overnight.

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Due_Night414 Apr 15, 2026

When we are scrapping new technologies for the big oil and old ways it’s not a conspiracy. You can look up Make Coal Great Again for yourself and see that it’s politically motivated instead of conspiracy. Its words from frumpy’s mouth. I’m not a fan of making c*** up. Facts over feelings from my mostly conservative sentiment. I just know when to call out bullshit and this is one of those time.

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charnwoodian Apr 16, 2026 +3

There’s a conspiracy to keep renewable tech from developing while we are seeing the biggest, fastest developments in renewable tech ever. I’m not disputing there are industry interest groups and fringe political movements that want to preserve the reliance on fossil fuels, and obviously the Trump administration is ruinous in many ways. But in the Australian context, there is absolutely no evidence that governments are preventing renewable technology from being developed or being implemented. We have seen massive advancement and enormous uptake. The bottleneck is the limits of technology, and that is changing fast. Even if the promises of c**** solid state batteries and massive increases to solar panel efficiency all come true, we will still have reliance on fossil fuels for decades. The infrastructure changeover will cost trillions and not be quick. And there are a million little problems to solve to make this transition. We should be clear eyed about exactly what is happening in energy. Massive technological disruption is coming, with renewables the winning technology. But that transition will still be expensive and slow - it’s just a fact of how the world works

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Due_Night414 Apr 16, 2026 -1

Oh I fully agree with everything you said. Except conspiracy because I always say follow the money and you will see what’s going on. And I apologize I didn’t mean anything bad about the Australian government. I was saying this is horrible timing because of what my idiotic and corrupt administration is doing here in America.

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Guilty-Instruction56 Apr 15, 2026 +6

Waiting to hear that Lord Humongous is outside the other refinery. That’s the icing on the cake.

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zeitgeist98764 Apr 15, 2026 +2

Great timing

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mortisthewise Apr 16, 2026 +2

We know what happens to Australia if there is not enough gas. Mad Max was set in 2027. Just sayin'.

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CulturistPionier Apr 16, 2026 +2

so the acceptable fuel prices are gonna go up again? it was fun for the two weeks it lasted

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RNG-Leddi Apr 15, 2026 +7

I hate to say it but the odds of something like this happening during a fuel crisis seems off, the level of suspect activity these days is phenomenal.

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FlickyG Apr 16, 2026 +3

The refinery in Geelong is ancient and they have been pushing processing at the plant to the limit since the Epstein War started. Those two factors together are likely sufficient to have caused something like this to occur. Source: I live an hour's drive from Geelong and my colleagues are from there. It's all we've been talking about this morning.

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RNG-Leddi Apr 16, 2026 +1

I wouldn't knock those factors at all, but the timing couldn't have been worse.

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habitual_citizen Apr 15, 2026 -6

One does wonder…….

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RNG-Leddi Apr 16, 2026

☝️Gets downvoted for grasping the world we live in 😑

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habitual_citizen Apr 16, 2026 -4

I’m neg-farming atm my stats are too good

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ColonCleanse93 Apr 16, 2026 +1

Don’t shoot. Let em burn!

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Dancingbeavers Apr 16, 2026 +1

Surprised I haven’t seen accusations of arson on this.

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amx-002_neue-ziel Apr 17, 2026 +1

Work of a sleeper agent? Take out all of the oil refineries other than Iran's?

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New-Persimmon8975 Apr 15, 2026

So they’re doing fine like FOREVER. And in the middle of an oil supply crisis one of two in Australia blows up? Okay!!!

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GravyForDayz Apr 15, 2026 -2

Not saying it's Russia but y'know if the shoe fits

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MrSweetpotato93 Apr 16, 2026 -7

That’s not how you spell Israel

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Pervy-Platypus Apr 15, 2026 -1

Great, now Trump is gonna want the other one

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