Yeah they found around $20 trillion worth of oil in south Australia. Wonder how much we'll see of it. I am guessing about a million. The rest will go off shore. I wish the gov would say
" Now **** off ****. This is ours. We will have roads paved with and you multi nationals shall have **** all." In other words we should drill it ours selves

so are u for or against a stronger "mining tax" on foreign operators?

we need to hike the tax now because there will be HUGE demand for this. Taxing it is the only way to convert it into public wealth.

We need to play the mining companies against each other and give the lease to whomever offers the most back (in taxes) because everywhere else is drying up and we got the good ****.

We got the good ****. yeah baby.

doesnt WA have like 40% of the worlds uraniaum

I'm in favour of it. I am very much for a mining tax. Even on local mining companies.
In fact i would go as far as to say. The aus government should start up its own drilling operation and drill,market and sell it all themselves.. Have full control and full benefit from the oil. **** just taxing it. Who will complain? Any other country/company does't like it. Tell them to **** off and buy oil from someone else. ahahahaha

it's a pity we don't have a publicly owned mining company then we'd get all of it back instead of just a few jobs and 0.3% of the profit.

wulfgang why are you suddenly so concerned about oil going off shore when you can count the number of Australian companies on one hand and most of every thing we buy is imported from over seas.
And every street is over run with American owned fast food shops.

Exactly.

I've always been concerned. And It is sad there is a maccas or kfc on every corner.
I never had mcdonalds or kfc until i was 18 or 19. If you add up all the pizza slices i had before 20. It would amount to about 2 pizzas. And they were the good stuff, made by a local independant bloke. His vegetarian pizza is still the best pizza i have ever tasted. My fast food was cafe hamburgers and fish n chips and fiesta chicken once a fortnight. I think i can only remember one or two fat kids in the entire school of about 400 or 500. Now the town has maccas, kfc, eagle boys etc. And all but one of those cafes have closed down. And there are fat **** everywhere. The feista chicken and the pizza guy is still there though.

I have driven back threw places like cowra(where i grew up) gunnedah and other places in Western NSW and their seems to be a greater resistance to the American onslaught it is just the major cities that have become infested with the American scourge.

Red Rooster for **** life.

i love red rooster the ripper subs are soo good i get 2 each time i go

Why do what the Middle East or China do with nationalised valuable commodity industries making money for the nation as a whole when we can sell everything to fat **** pricks like Clive Palmer to make him billions more wealthy by selling the stuff from the ground to China only for China to turn around and use it to make all the pointless **** they send back here to take our money.

Howard wasted the huge commodity boom when he was in office with utterly stupid middle class welfare paid for by selling our national assets. If he hadn't sold Telstra we'd have FTTN 10 years ago and would already have a FTTH NBN covering most of the country.

One example of this **** up **** is LPG fuel. If we had a nationalised gas company Australian's would have access to LPG fuel for their cars at about 25c/L. Instead we pay based on some **** "Saudi Arabian" price even though we could make enough LPG for Australian needs for 1000's of years, simply because the private companies prefer to export it to places like Vietnam, China and Europe and thus tell Australians "Even though it costs 15c/L to make, you pay 70 because that's what we can make overseas by selling it to Europeans freezing in their houses in the middle of winter."

If Tony Abbott gets in at the next election it'll be even worse.

That there be straight up pinko talk son.

You spend all your time trying your hardest to show everyone here how well informed and intelligent you are when it comes to politics, governments and laws. But for some reason you fail to see the obviousness involved in why the government can't drill oil for itself and tell oil companies to go away.

what obviousness is that?

**** love the real bacon burger.

No, South Australia has the largest Uranium deposit in the world.

I feel it is more patriotic than pinko

Yeah what is the "obviousness" involved?
We use to own our own bank. (granted others were allowed too.) We use to own our own telecom comp. Use to own our own powerstations too. Seem to remember when Australia did own those things we were doing all right. Things were cheaper. Ran smoother. etc. Plus it was great having companies that made huge profits. It gave the Government room to give things like tax breaks pump a few extra million into schools n hospitals every now and again, without taking away from other projects or increasing taxes or "leveys". No robbing peter to pay paul then was there dum dum? Now that the governments only income is from taxes those breaks and cuts are few and far between. We can tell companies to go away. Told the company who owns the huge super trawler to **** off. ( mostly due to a lot of pressure from inside the country but still).
You're a **** idiot.

Last time someone struck oil in their backyard they moved to beverly hills.

hahahahah

Such a massive rant, yet you still can't see the obviousness to it.

those guys were ****

Well point it out.

To early, you have to fail at attempting to work it out several more times. So that when I tell you, it is a certainty that any attempt at saying "Yeah I know" or "I was getting to that" can be laughed at as false.

Hopefully no one else tells you before then.

How can i point out a fault when i don't believe there is one? So what is wrong with it?
Whats the matter? sprouted off at the mouth before you checked t osee if google had a answer for you?

I certainly wont tell him.
I am gonna wait until you pull the noose he's been making for himself.

just make sure it's not a rhetorical reason, but an obviousness one. Then take a look at what happened during and after the great depression, take a look at what caused it and the ideological collapse that followed. Then compare that to what is happening now.

$20 trillion is like 20 years of our total economy. There's probably not a mining company anywhere in the world with enough capital to get things going. There's certainly not enough infrustructure locally. Any operation will require a massive backing from the government, however they decide to do it.

All bets are off. This is **** huge.

Please, continue explaining to us why the government should take control of the $20trill in oil and why you believe it to be a good thing and a reasonable move by the government.

You and your infinite Right Wing ideals, will show us the path to enlightenment.

I actually did this just then, to see what would come up. I am quite sure you have done the same, since you are 99.9% Google and 0.1% Full of **** when you debate something. Which has lead me to conclude that my attempt at making you look like a total moron several times before giving you the answer, will fail.

You have more than likely read the first few results of google search, which clearly point out why a government should not get involved in business practices. Hence knowing the answer in which I would eventually destroy your ego with, has no doubt changed your "I know what I am saying." defence into the common "I will simply ignore the topic and avoid it." approach that you always take.

This is like a game of poker or chess.

You can taste the suspense.

It's more like flipping a coin with Heads on both sides.

I am the one who chose Heads to win.
Wulfgang is the one who chose Tails to win.

Wulfgang is gonna know you have a dodgy coin now.

$20 Trillion dollars?... I can't even get affordable dental care for my partner. Will they give me $5000 to cover all her dental needs now that they are rolling in delicious oil?

A toothless bearded hag.

It is a game that will last forever, because 3 out of 10 is too scared to make a move.

I don't need google. I made my move. The best thing for the country is for the government to take control. Now tell me how i am wrong. Do it 3 out 10. Go on. Prove me wrong. You chicken 3 out of 10? brawwwkkkk brawkkkk

Basically Wulf, you talk about 'leftards' and claim to be a right winger, but right now you're advocating a policy you would expect to see in an authoritarian Socialist/Communist dictatorship.

Might be time for you to rethink the whole left/right nonsense... and then shut up... and then rethink your entire mindset, then shut up again.

So from 1936 to 1980 Australia was commie dictatorship?

aye comrade

Don'T get your knickers in a twist fellers, it'll never come to fruition. This is all about chest-thumping and e-peen! Nothing more. I dare anyone to buy **** of shares in Linc and brag about it here!

*edit* Oh, and yes, I bought a bazillion shares in Linc before posting!

no, but we used to have a nicer balance happening between socialism/capitalism/democracy... all just labels really but it's something along those lines. I agree with what wulfy is saying, it's just funny to hear him say it after all his talk of leftards etc.

The Australian government taking over the oil field is a very right wing thing for me to support. For you see the government taking over the oil field is going to give me the greatest benefit. I support big business. but i don't support them over myself. BP (for example) can go **** themselves for all i care. I want the money.

Well I agree with what you're saying... that **** belongs to us, not those BP ****.

Actually what you're advocating is straight up socialism.

lol, it's like a textbook example of socialism.

No. Its patriotism. Ironicaly you have been brainwashed into thinking That the government doing anything like this, comes out of the big bad book of communism. Hmm i wonder who planted that idea?
This is what will happen if the government does this.
Gillcunt" We have decided to form our oil extracting company. So that we can get as much out of this oil discovery for the country as possible."
Gina Rienslut " Oo not letting me or my foreign friends sell that oil off for as cheap as possible is like socialism"
3 out of 10/ " oooooooooooooo socialism? Rambo said they are bad. ause they hate merica"

Well, Socialism and Communism aren't identical, but...

It should be noted that having aspects of Socialism or Communism in a governing body aren't bad things. If anything a wise person should take the positive and useful aspects of any form of governing and make use of them.

This isn't to say I agree or disagree with any one of you, just that if someone shouts "That smacks of Socialism!" or "Sounds like Commie talk!", that doesn't mean that what you're doing is wrong, just that maybe Marx wrote it down and gave it a name.