{"id":562208,"date":"2026-03-25T00:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:31:20","slug":"is-this-australias-moment-to-embrace-renewables-ask-adam-morton-your-questions-now-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562208\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Australia\u2019s moment to embrace renewables? Ask Adam Morton your questions now | Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The US-Israel war on Iran has cause a surge in fossil fuel prices \u2013 again. A similar thing happened after Russia invaded Ukraine. Then it was gas, now it\u2019s petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The war has triggered a fuel crisis, and led to a surge in people considering buying electric cars. Meanwhile, a recent report found Australian federal and state governments will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/mar\/11\/australian-governments-subsidising-fossil-fuel-use-by-more-than-30000-a-minute-analysis-finds\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay or forgo A$16.3bn in fossil fuel subsidies<\/a> this financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Adam Morton has written recently on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/25\/australia-fuel-tax-credit-scheme-government-anti-climate-policy-under-pressure\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the case for winding back the biggest fossil fuel subsidy \u2013 fuel tax credits \u2013<\/a> and for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/10\/if-there-was-ever-a-moment-for-australias-shift-to-renewables-and-evs-this-is-it\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accelerating the shift to clean energy<\/a> to help limit future shocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">What steps could be taken, and what stands in the way?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Post your questions below and join Guardian Australia\u2019s climate and environment editor, Adam Morton, for a live Q&amp;A at midday AEDT (11am AEST; 11.30 ACDT; 9am AWST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/profile.theguardian.com\/signin?INTCMP=DOTCOM_COMMENTS_SIGNIN&amp;componentEventParams=componentType%3Didentityauthentication%26componentId%3Dregister_to_comment\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to ask a question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US-Israel war on Iran has cause a surge in fossil fuel prices \u2013 again. A similar thing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-562208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}