It's nonsense for Angus Taylor to suggest Australia could face an energy crisis like Europe's

We already have energy independence and Australia extracts more gas than it needs to meet domestic demand. Indeed three-quarters is exported as LNGGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Morrison government has been promising a "gas-fired recovery" from the pandemic since not long after lockdowns began in early 2020. Over the past 18 months it has announced nearly $1bn in funding for gas projects.But this has done almost nothing to aid the country's recovery from the Covid recession for an obvious reason - gas power plants, pipelines and basins take years to develop and build. Further, as Greg Jericho has pointed out, the gas industry employs very few people. Continue reading...