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


the current US government is literally built around a bunch of fucking morons entertaining a lunatic. Trump blarts out some bullshit on behalf of his puppeteers, the flying monkeys scurry about to make it Reality. This expands out further to allies and other nations.
Thing is, Iran doesn’t want to play flying monkey. So Trump just keeps blarting his bullshit and wondering why Reality is not occurring any more. And the flying monkeys literally can no longer conceive of another way to function short of going yes sir no sir three bags full sir gargle gargle.
We’ve spent eighty years kissing american arse and now we don’t know what to do when it’s time for daddy to go into the hospice