The first servo I stopped at had run out of diesel. A tank normally costs me $100 less.

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    Australia is as wide as, and is taller than USA. It’s a large country

    We have one main train line across the country horizontally, and two vertically. The vast majority is uninhabited.

    We’re talking about an infrastructure project that has to supply reliable high voltage power across the entire country (4000 km), build multiple new train lines across the entire country, and even then you still need trucks for distribution within states as rail is not capable of last mile delivery (or even hundreds of kilometres of areas unserviced by rail)

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      dang so true, if only we were one of the wealthiest most indistrialised nations in the world and had plenty to spend on climate forward nationalised projects in the workers interests.

      shit talking aside, you are right, we will never be rid of roads in this country for a very long time.

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        Yep completely agree, if only we didn’t export LNG with zero royalties we’d be rich like the saudis