Chris Bowen has been caught talking nonsense again.

In The Australian, Chris Uhlmann tears apart Bowen’s claim that no country in the world is looking at the global fuel crisis and deciding it needs more fossil fuels. 

Bowen declared that conversation “is not being had anywhere around the world”.

Really?

Uhlmann’s answer is devastating. Germany is reopening the debate on domestic gas. China is building coal-fired power at a scale the rest of the world cannot match. 

India is opening new coal mines. Canada wants to double LNG exports, then double them again. Argentina is fracking. Brazil is drilling. Africa is building gas and LNG projects.

So while Bowen lectures Australians from inside his Net Zero bubble, the real world is moving back to reliable and cheap forms of energy: fossil fuels.

Uhlmann quotes Germany’s Economic Affairs and Energy Minister, Katherina Reiche, who says electricity prices have exploded and “our industry is bleeding.” She also lands the killer line: an energy transition that ignores system costs “will ruin the country it claims to save”.

That is the warning Australia needs to hear.

Labor’s Net Zero delusion is expensive and dangerous. A nation that cannot power its homes, factories, farms and defence industries is not serious about prosperity or security. A country that shuts down reliable power while China burns more coal, expands industry and secures fuel supply is surrendering its future while not saving the planet.

Uhlmann also points to the hypocrisy at home. New South Wales is opening new gas exploration, Queensland is extending coal, South Australia is locking in gas, the Northern Territory is backing gas projects, and Western Australia already knows gas keeps the lights on and the mines running.

Even Labor premiers know Bowen’s fantasy falls apart when reality arrives.

Net Zero is ultimately an ideological obsession that won’t work. It punishes families, weakens industry, destroys jobs, and leaves Australia dependent on countries that do not share our values.

This charade cannot continue much longer. Australians are waking up.