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Roozendaal is pretty much an entertainment industry all on his own. The guy could talk under wet motorway concrete! - I can still remember him concluding an interview about bus lanes with the comment "I love my car".
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nsw/content/2006/s1589239.htm
Ironically, his car once got into the limelight as well, when the Sydney Sunday Telegraph photographed him travelling in (ahem!) a bus lane!!!
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,18760911-1702,00.html
But all this pales into insignificance compared with our state Treasurer, Michael Costa, whose dismissal of Peak Oil in State Parliament last year was absolutely jaw-dropping...
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20070...
I do not know where to start to answer that question.
The only part of the Hon Michael Kosta's answer that was credible. But it must be said, despite the compelling data (and evidence) that high prices will not produce new technology and new reserves, I don't think I would like to be a politician trying to sell Peak Oil to the electorate. They (the punters) can deny all they want, and keep the dream alive, but unfortunately they vote as well. Richard Heinberg was sober and measured last night - and even if he were only half right - it should be front-page news. But as has been suggested on The Oil Drum for some years now (since birth?), we have to run the car into a brick wall before we decide it's time to apply the brakes. Unfortunately.
I thought Costa's performance at the state ALP conference last week was probably "better" - telling everyone to "get f*cked" numerous times and generally behaving like a manic depressive maniac (which I think the SMH said he actually is - bipolar disorder being the term they used if I recall correctly).