tomo,
Perhaps a compromise: repackaging the information in a more accessible form amounts to re-publishing?

It does seem every part of the anglosphere has a serious parasitic infestation. Each of us, in mild desperation about his own country, looks at the others and it's: God, it's even worse there.

Impressive how badly Ford has treated such a dedicated and lucrative customer. What chance does a small customer have?

I think we might already be past the point of diminishing returns on fuel economy measures. I thought direct petrol injection was a great advance, but intake tract buildup changed my mind. Those wet timing belts never seemed a good idea, but I suppose it was partly to reduce friction as the belt meshed with the gears.

Another supposed economy measure that Ford have in their Ranger is the variable oil pump. The downside of this is that it can lose its prime when the oil is drained. When that happens, the pressure doesn't come back when you start the car. In that video it says you have 10 minutes to get the new oil in. My mechanic mate used to work to 5 minutes, but got caught by one. He now works to 1 minute from sump plug out to sump plug in, then down with the hoist and get the oil into it.

Cadogan favoured it in that video, but the little bit of fuel saved by varying the oil pressure has to be more than offset by the blowout in cost when the prime is lost.

It doesn't add up...,
My understanding was that we *do* have pipelines spanning the country. That seems to be borne out by the map here. But pipeline or not, you're right that there is a case for an import terminal; building it was a free market decision (I assume), it supplies a need and/or deprives the pipeline of a monopoly.

It's still mad that Australia needs it. There's plenty of east coast gas we could be using if there weren't a religious aversion to fracking.

LNG discharge terminals in Australia aren't quite as crazy as it might seem. No-one would build a pipeline to hook in NW Shelf gas to supply the SE. Gas field developers have found it more lucrative to cater to export LNG rather than inland markets where attempts at price control and costs of pipelines to markets make it less attractive. The result is that existing supply has become very expensive because it is limited.

Having LNG import capacity means an ability to compete with export markets and shorter and thus cheaper voyages than to JKM ports. It caps what must be paid for gas.

Incidentally the comment about LNG ships being tied up for days to match inland demand is wrong. Discharge into a FSRU is at the same speed as to shore tankage. There is also no reason not to have additional tankage onshore which can get routed back through the regas train. If demand is big enough, build the whole enchilada ashore. Using an FSRU simply speeds the on stream date, assuming you can find one to charter. If you later build the shore terminal you can release the FSRU, or sell it if you bought it.

tomo,
Thanks for the clarification. I wouldn't be surprised if the fellow did keep on grabbing the data. The grief he got was due to publishing it, but continuing to grab it and keeping it for a suitable occasion is what I thnk I'd have done under the circumstances. That has an added benefit if he was in an "arms race" with them — he develops scripts that work on their website, they see that he is still publishing, they change their website, he needs to tweak his scripts. Downloading but not publishing means they might leave things alone.

The Edd Fyfe story is like so many others where regulators end up cosy and comfortable (i.e. corrupt). The government has given them big guns, which they are happy to use to protect themselves. Another instance of independent == unaccountable.

The James Murray tweet:

EVs are set to account for 45 per cent of all new car sales in China this year...

The David Turver tweets were well on point. Australia is in the ludicrous position of being one of the (if not *the*) largest exporters of gas in the world, but because of contracts signed, we're suffering chronic gas shortages locally. And now we build our first gas import terminal.

It matches Reagan's famous quote in spirit if not word for word:

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.