Matt Poll

Customer researcher and strategist

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

are ALL models getting more verbose and dumber? spending way more time editing and rewrites. grok, gpt, opus, all of them

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@DrewPavlou Thats all a bit sensational Drew. but you are not wrong. We are where we are due to 40 years of policy decisions from both parties. Your solutions are spot on but we need to get thru this crisis now and our gov cant even manage the short term.

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@matt_barrie climate religion is a big factor now but it worse than that. it started 40 years ago!

https://t.co/vZtrX8xrqT

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

How Australia dismantled its fuel independence even though we sit on some of the largest oil and gas reserves on the planet.

Full breakdown:

https://t.co/m9e5inI5gC

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@TheStalwart @matt_barrie https://t.co/xj4x6HK5Sc

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@HaveeSnowball it's all a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@OMGTheMess It's all a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@mattjcan We were. All a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@Mark_Graph a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@k_mahlburg Exactly. Fuel prices are a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@OneNationAus Fuel prices are a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@TheAusInstitute Fuel prices are a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@Mon4Kooyong Our fuel prices are a predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@TheIPA A predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

@BaronBurleigh2 A predictable consequence of a deliberate policy architecture. My breakdown here: https://t.co/ym0oQcnNPm

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Full breakdown here: https://t.co/AEdha4BFqa

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Australia has abundant oil reserves, a functioning refining industry, domestic crude production, and full IEA membership.

But our fuel prices just ranked among the highest rises in the world.

How did we get here?

It didn’t happen to us. We built it. Over 40 years.

🧵

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

South Australia may hold 200 billion barrels of shale oil and put us in the top 3 global producers

The refineries that could process it are closed

The policy to develop it doesn’t exist

Resource-rich AND Fuel-insecure

That’s not a market outcome

It’s a policy outcome

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

No single decision tied our prices to Singapore. It just drifted

Import parity. Export deregulation. Singapore benchmarks. ACCC sign-off

By the early 00s every Australian paid a price set overseas

We became a price-taker on the world’s most geopolitically exposed commodity

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Between 2013 and 2021, six of Australia’s eight refineries closed.

Each closure was called a commercial matter. Governments didn't want to intervene.

Then in 2021, the Morrison Government, well, intervened and paid the last two to stay open.

[Matt Poll @mattrpoll]

Asian mega-refineries pay a 5–10% premium for our light and sweet crude.

Our refineries were built in the 50s for heavy crude. Retrofitting never made economic sense.

We exported our own oil and imported cheaper crude to run through ageing plants