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It’s no secret that Donald Trump has an almost visceral dislike of wind turbines or, as he usually refers to them, “windmills.”

Trump just paid $1.3b for nothing

The Trump administration did something that, even by its standards, was unusual.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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It is time to turn to the E10 pump says the NRMA.

NRMA urges drivers to embrace E10 fuel to extend the nation’s reserves

While the debate over the environmental benefits of E10 goes on, few doubt its use during an energy crunch.

  • Nick O'Malley
Trucks fill up at Girraween in western Sydney on Friday, when diesel was selling for almost $3 a litre.

I was a BP boss and Thatcher’s energy adviser: It’s time to switch off petrol

This is not a war of our making, but we did create our own crisis. And yet Australia has all it needs to kick its dangerous oil dependency.

  • Greg Bourne
A WA parliamentary inquiry has heard harrowing accounts of sexual assaults and harassment of female FIFO workers at the state’s mine sites.

WA mining contractor stands down FIFO workers amid fuel shortage

The average price of unleaded fuel in Perth reached 229 cents per litre, up from 155.8 cents per litre this time last month.

  • Hamish Hastie
Energy Minister Chris Bowen announcing the first-ever release from Australia’s fuel stockpile.

Australia taps fuel stockpile in urgent bid to fill shortages and stem panic buying

The government will draw down hundreds of millions of litres of petrol and diesel from Australia’s strategic stockpile.

  • Mike Foley
Flames and smoke rise from an Iranian oil storage facility struck during the US-Israeli military strike on Saturday.

Day of panic as war in Iran wipes $80 billion off the market

G7 calls emergency meeting as global oil supply faces Ukraine-level crisis, while Australia’s inflation rate is tipped to reach 5 per cent by the middle of the year.

  • Simon Johanson and Shane Wright
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Trump is up against an adversary that is setting out to make America feel its pain. 

The Iran energy nightmare is becoming a reality

Energy analysts modelling a war involving Iran have long feared two developments. Now both are unfolding at once.

  • The Economist
A molten salt tower solar thermal power station in Jiuquan, China. Molten salt is used as thermal storage to continue producing electricity even when the sun is not shining.

Don’t be gaslit on climate. There’s no going back on this energy transition

The world has an enormous task to avoid the worst effects of climate change, and the risks remain serious. The energy transition is well under way, however, and politicians need to be honest about that.

  • Rod Sims and Rebecca Burdon
Cao Renxian

‘No one supported my idea’: Mysterious Chinese billionaire forced out of the shadows

Cao Renxian is one of China’s richest men in an industry the world can’t live without, yet almost no one outside the business knows his name.

  • Bloomberg News
Plastic is being burnt for fuel and food cooking across the developing world.

This WA-led study revealed the scale of plastic burning for fuel. What are we going to do about it?

Our findings show that burning plastic as household fuel is far more commonplace than previously thought.

  • Bishal Bharadwaj