Australia’s fuel supply remains strong with more than 50 ships on their way to top up tanks and a reducing number of service stations running out of petrol and diesel.
As of Saturday morning, Australia had 39 days’ worth of petrol, 29 days’ worth of diesel and 30 days’ worth of jet fuel amid ongoing strong demand.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/04/fewer-service-stations-running-out-of-petrol-and-diesel-as-australias-fuel-supplies-remain-strong-energy-minister-says
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I just watched an interesting show on the ABC called If You’re Listening showing the impact of the oil crises in the 70’s, and the measures taken as it dragged on.
Amazing what happens when people stop panic buying
So, cool, only 60 days under our treaty minimum holdings.
Thing is…we NEVER actually had a shortage. What we had was a massive spike in demand, what we don’t have is a bunch of tankers and drivers sitting around to fulfill that uptick in demand. If you’ve suddenly sold a weeks worth of petrol in a day you can’t just magic a new delivery out of thin air.
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Personally I want to see all major parties come together including ON to talk about the incoming crisis and agree to move forward for the benefit of our nation.
I am getting pretty tired of political point scoring, how I can better up each other. How my team is better than your team.
It’s clearly not working in the States and the UK is just as broken.
Sure, they can disagree. But if this conflict continues in Iran and the yanks just drop it like its hot.
I am only talking about fuel at this stage. Don’t have to align on everything. But in times of crisis.
Wouldn’t have anything to do with the suppliers now having to disclose how they were artificial restricting tankers?
See wa emergency powers execution
**the main stream media is very upset with this**
We should have 90
People should at least be aware that in the long term, if the war does further escalate and Iran continues bombing out gulf states in attempt to cause Israel/the US to fuck off, we absolutely *will* have a genuine fuel shortage, and we as a country need to seriously think about moving away from being so reliant on diesel to maintain our economy.
Won’t happen, but we can dream.
Maybe we have an abundance of grubs and panic merchants in the spotlight. I hope their mates hang shit on them mercilessly for years.