The Rolling Stones once sang "Jumpin Jack Flash it's a gas, gas, gas", but I can't get no satisfaction from news this week Australia is considering importing LNG to combat a looming East Coast shortage.
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Particularly given Australia was crowned world's largest exporter of gas this week by energy advisory company EnergyQuest.
To add irony we're tipped to import the gas back from countries we've exported to, like Japan and China, who have oversubscribed.
To quote the Stones again, gimme shelter, from bizarre market forces.
Importing gas to Australia is surely akin to sending coal to Newcastle, but don't mention fossil fuels, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison found out at the Pacific Island Forum (PIF).
According to public policy think tank the Australia Institute, Australia is now officially the third largest exporter of Co2 in fossil fuels in the world, lagging only behind only global ghouls Russia and Saudia Arabia.
Australia mines about 57 tonnes of Co2 potential per person each year, about 10 times the global average, and consequently, kids in Tuvalu sleep in water beds. Or so the climate non-change denial argument goes. PIF!
Confusing? Yes, but you suspect that's half the point when you're trying to protect shareholder interests.
Criticism of Australia's position triggered the great oracle Alan Jones to advise Kiwi PM Jacinta Ardern "to shove a sock down her throat".
Or rather "in it" as he later corrected just in case people thought he had an issue with violent misogynistic language, reminding some of another Rolling Stones classic. Paint it black. All Black.
Not just a reference to Jones, or the Wallabies' drubbing at Eden Park last weekend but also the collective global lungs if we continue to burn fossil fuels and not transition to less harmful energy sources like hydrogen.
Trust Andrew McConville, CEO of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, to see a positive in the looming domestic gas shortage.
"If Australia was to stop producing natural gas, our Asian customers would use other sources of energy [that we also export]," Mr McConville said.
"Australia's LNG industry often does not receive credit for its important role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and helping import nations improve their air quality."
Possibly true, because it's not, but warming to realise the APPEA is so concerned about the planet. Global warming.
Most Australians probably didn't realise Australia is soon to become a gas importing nation either. As ACCC chair Rod Simms said this week, it's tricky.
To bring it home with a couple more Stones references, wild horses couldn't drag me away from reliable energy.
But if my home was being inundated by rising sea levels, I'd have little sympathy for the devil.