Fuel standards relaxed to add 100 million litres of fuel to Australian supply
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/petrol-quality-relaxed-100-million-litre-boost/106446796?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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Those new regulations didn’t even last three months. Reminder that Australia had fuel qualities comparable to developing countries before December last year.
100 Milion a month for two months. It’s to do with sulphur levels.
Hmm is this a good thing?
Putting bandaids on a knife wound
If our government had some balls they would have stood up to the USA like Spain instead of enabling Pedo Don and Bibi the genocidal clown.
Entertaining to see the folks lose their minds over this on Facebook when all it is reverting to the old standard from a few months ago. Probably the same people doomsdaying when the tighter standards were first proposed.
Awesome. Our cars can eat shit, and we will be paying 250/L for the privilege
What happens if the war is not resolved based on expected timelines?
Does this hurt my car or the environment?
Can’t wait for the permanent price increases pn groceries
And who’s gonna pay when the higher sulfur fuel fucks up your direct injection engine
Let’s get lower quality fuel. Much better than adding public transport or encouraging electric cars. Dread the thought of making cycling a safe and appealing option.
If only we had been focusing on an energy source that is readily available in our sundrenched country and not one we have to import from a region that’s been at war for 4 thousand years on the other side of the world.
This isn’t even a days supply
Yeah except these flogs will just charge full tote odds anyway
So,
I know it’s easy to dunk on the current government about these things, but you should always sit back and think, how would the other side handle it.
What would the Coalition have done in this situation?
What would One Nation do in this situation?
What would the Greens do in this situation?
I’d like to hear people’s thoughts.
I looked into this further on another forum. Fuel standards were changed late last year which included a change in the sulfur spec down to 10ppm in all petrol sold (down from 150ppm for ULP, and 50ppm for PULP(95/98), Ampol hasn’t completed a project at their refinery in Brisbane to comply with the new standard. It’s in their ASX announcement 2025 Full Year results, from a few weeks ago, page 44…
“Light Cat Naphtha exports: Lytton has begun exporting Light Cat Naphtha (LN), which is high in sulfur content, at a loss.These exports will continue until the Ultra Low Sulfur Fuels project is complete. In the current period the loss was $3.7 million.”
Cat naphtha, and light cat naphtha is one of the main components in petrol, but generally LCN has a high sulfur content because it’s a “cracked” product.
There’s also a bit more info on Bowen’s release. Only would affect petrol, nothing about diesel which is probably where the shortage will be.
So does this mean I should now be putting in 95 instead of 91, since the quality is going to presumably go to shit? If so, thats just going to cost me more anyway, either by paying fir 95/98 or just running the engine lean.
Great, now I’ll pay a premium to run my car on bin juice🤔
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Iran said they’ll let through the ships of anyone who expels the Israeli & American ambassadors. India successfully negotiated with Iran and their ships are being granted safe passage.
I guess they’d all rather tank the world economy.
This is Australia and George Miller made mad max, we should have seen what’s coming and been smarter.
phew! prices should easily come down by the end of the year
Screw petrol !! M buying an EV.
TIL we are part of IEA. Cool.
Also, surprise at ScoMo n the diesel initiative.
Question, 100,000L a day, how much of the total stockpile is that?
100 million litres is like two days of supply.
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Someone downvoted this, but the ABS put our 12-month fuel use in 2020 at 30,000 megalitres. A megalitres is one million litres. That’s 90 million litres *per day* in 2020. (Financial year ending June 30 so only partly affected by COVID).
100 million litres of petrol is fuck-all.
How do new cars released this year that need the cleaner fuel cope? This includes petrol and diesel
At $3.30 a litre I can’t afford it anyway
Countries fucked
And what will that do to engines, CO2 emissions, etc?
can I rent an empty fuel transport and fill it up at the local servo?
100ml is like a days supply.
We will be going wfh like numerous Asian countries already have in about a week imo.
How about we start refining it on shore?
I hope that this is the kick up the atse needed to get this country to invest in robust public transport and active transport infrastructure, but I expect to be disappointed.
Look forward to being only allowed to drive on specific days based on if your number plate ends in an odd or even number.