Six fuel shipments to Australia due after mid-April have been cancelled or deferred.
The energy minister says about 74 others are still expected, and that while there may be "bumps" due to the war in Iran, supply is secure.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-22/six-fuel-ships-cancelled-oil-supply-iran/106483424?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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Hopefully the ships with electric cars are still on the way.
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Yea they said the same thing about toilet paper during covid and look at how many people had to wipe their ass with their hands or rocks from the garden!!!!
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>Chris Bowen also said while the government had contingencies for fuel shortages, Australia was “a long way” from fuel rationing.
Just encourage wfh already. We’re like three weeks into this war, pluck the low hanging fruit instead of pretending everything is business as usual.
Feel like this level of granular detail is going to feed anxiety and panic buying.
On ya I$real and USA………….
Sounds like it’s time to stock up on toilet paper
Guys I think the government might have more information about this than the general public and are in fact doing things behind the scenes to manage it.
So far all the shortages have just been from panic buying not genuine shortages.
“Fuel cancelled”
Murdoch headline coming soon
Where’d they go?
Malcolm Roberts of the Australian Institute of Petroleum has announced that when farmers and trucking companies fill all of their storage facilities with diesel it is not “panic buying” but a sensible business decision of “forward buying”.
If everyone who can possibly WFH, does, that will make our fuel go a hell of a lot further.
And stop recreational use of boats and towing caravans for now.
It’s not forever, just until supply returns to normal.
He also said that the cancelled ships have already been replaced so really we have lost nothing and still getting full supply.
Chris, this is exactly how Bart starts a run on the Springfield bank.
I’m absolutely convinced that 95% of the feeling that the world is in turmoil is due to the availability of information these days and the propensity for bad news to sell clicks.
Interesting that the ABC had the cancellation as the headline while the Guardian mentioned it was only 6 out of 81 and some of them may be replaced.
> Though gap has been filled
You missed half the headline, FFS.
Roads in Sydney this weekend have been absolutely packed. I don’t think people are caring about fuel yet.
I heard that some of our strategic fuel reserves are in the USA. I wonder if we may have trouble accessing them.
We need some pressers from Dan Andrews to sort this out.
Seems media take one part of what he says and scare monger
Because those countries are keeping them for their energy security.
The title should be 7 of 80 fuel ships cancelled. Otherwise it’s click bait and driving public panicking on purpose.
The 74 wouldn’t be coming here however so how many were actually cancelled.
It’s like COVID all over again. “Everything is perfectly fine” until it’s very obviously not
If only we some domestic capacity and didn’t offshore everything, but then I guess we wouldn’t be privatising the profits and socialising the losses properly 🤷♂️
Toilet paper disappearing off the shelves already?