The end of cheap fossil fuel energy is here now, at least for the next few years.
The world is about to change: the balloon has burst. We built a world based on cheap fossil fuel energy, assuming we could always get all we wanted, while trying to gradually move to natural clean solar power.
Fossil fuel means fertiliser and food, transport of goods and people, and Australia is now in one of the worst positions of any nation.
Logic suggests there will be problems next year in our country, problems that we haven’t seen in the last 100 years.
Economic decline and financial crisis are by products of an irreparable, broken energy system. Tourism without aviation fuel; small business deliveries without diesel; free public transport – a warning, not a gift.
America is currently assisting Ukraine with the targeting and destruction of Russian oil refineries: just when we need that fuel. It will take years to rebuild mid-east oil refineries and will likely result in the biggest global famine in recorded history.
If Iran didn’t have nukes before, they’ll probably have them pretty soon: Russia’s Medvedev says, sadly: ‘a nuclear confrontation now appears inevitable’.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
