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    Globale Kraftstoffkrise: Energieminister Chris Bowen fordert Australier auf, von zu Hause aus zu arbeiten


    Globale Kraftstoffkrise: Energieminister Chris Bowen fordert Australier auf, von zu Hause aus zu arbeiten

    https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/global-fuel-crisis-australians-urged-to-work-from-home-by-energy-minister-chris-bowen/news-story/bd5affe16c993c9b54ddf80124bdd26b?amp

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    1. IntoTheSunAsItSets on

      Australians could have been doing this for the last six years. Just sayin‘.

    2. crackthetub on

      They don’t need to convince me to work from home, they need to convince my boss!

    3. gin_bulag_katorse on

      Maybe, just maybe, they should be urging the corporate employers to allow their employees to wfh. I’m pretty sure the average worker has little to no say on this.

    4. Material-Macaroon298 on

      I hope this gets entrenched.

      Work from home is such an obvious solution to so many problems in society.

    6. PretoGatos on

      I’ve been fully remote since 2018 but my boss wants to move me from a contract position to fulltime, which is great for a number of reasons but it also means I’ll have to go into the office 1.5 hours away for 3 days a week. „Company policy“ is a joke.

    7. zoppaTheDim on

      What if your home is on top of an isolated mesa in the middle of the dessert?

      I mean how do you expect me to get to bullet town?

    10. one_user on

      The Australian situation illustrates a supply chain dynamic getting lost in the Hormuz framing. Australia imports roughly 90% of its transport fuel, primarily refined products from Asian refineries rather than Gulf crude directly. Those refineries – Singapore, South Korea, Japan – process Gulf crude and ship finished product to Australia.

      So even if Australian ships negotiate Hormuz transit permission, the effective chain is: Gulf crude → Asian refinery → refined product → Australia. A disruption anywhere propagates downstream. The ‚friendly pass‘ that Japan or Australia might secure doesn’t solve refinery throughput problems if crude supply to those refineries is irregular.

      The ‚work from home‘ message is also implicitly acknowledging how thin Australia’s fuel buffer is. The IEA 90-day stockholding target for developed economies is something Australia has historically underperformed on. The disruption doesn’t need to be total to bite – a sustained 20-30% reduction in throughput for weeks is enough to cause rationing cascades in a country with that thin a buffer and that much geographic dependence on road transport.

    11. unimportantinfodump on

      Here we go. And so it begins.

      I’ll work from home. But I’ve still got to drop my kid off every day lol

    13. Jman1a on

      Bwahahah funny how work from home is stackers taking advantage to be lazy until it’s needed to save society again.

    15. Sci3nceMan on

      100% proof that forcing people back to the office is only to please the fossil fuel industry.

    17. PloppyTheSpaceship on

      Well, guess I’ll see what the office is doing today. Working from home would be difficult – I’m used to four monitors, could try to bring three home and find space – but my car is diesel and that’s getting to $3 a litre, and has even occasionally been dry at servos here.

      Still, it’d save us a fair whack.

    19. Neat-Attempt3681 on

      Rich people telling the peasants what they want them to do this month

    20. computer_d on

      Meanwhile in NZ we keep having our plonker of a leader repeat to everyone that everything is fine and NZ is „actually in a good position“ with fuel supply.

      So while other countries are scrambling to pivot, our idiot keeps telling us NZ is the one country that is apparently better than most. Which is categorically untrue.

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