there's something bigger than football thats about to hit, and it will be worse than the Covid crisis according to experts.
* These prices are now in NZ
* AU prices are rising daily nudging 3.00 for diesel ⛽️ and 280 super unleaded.
* The government approved the release 20% of its reserve about 762 million litres of petrol and diesel from domestic emergency stockpiles. That’s equivalent to roughly 5 million barrels of fuel. Thats only 9 days of fuel.
*Australia currently has fuel stocks roughly equivalent to about 30–36 days of petrol.
Food & groceries: Trucks transporting food and other essentials would halt, causing shortages in supermarkets and stores within days.
Prices: Expect sharp price spikes for remaining fuel and essential goods.
Emergency services: Ambulances, police, fire trucks could be limited if emergency fuel stocks aren’t available.Governments will advise
Goverments will tell us not to panic, prepare: Make sure you have enough essentials — water, non-perishable food, medications, and a bit of extra fuel if you drive long distances.
Avoid hoarding: Buy what you realistically need for 1–2 weeks; overbuying just worsens the situation for everyone.
- This is all coming about because Iran has a stranglehold on the shipping lanes in which the US. Trump is asking other countries for assistance.
- Its going to be like covid all over again. Without fuel the country stops
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Yep, it's getting rough that's for sure! Something Australia hasn't experienced before. Those elderly folk who went through the great depression and WW2 would have some idea but most Aussies wouldn't. This will test us and it's time to stick together and help one another
Mallee57
I have some sad news for you Mallee, us elderly folk didn't live through the "great depression" and most of the second world war survivors would be too old to remember.
welcome to 2026......the great depression was 1930 odd and the 2nd WW 1945....thats just shy of a 100 years and 80 years respectively.......even Daz, who personally knew Karl Marx never actually met him.....until he reincarnated.
Gonna have to Flintstone the car after filling the tank yesterday. $130 for a standard 91 tank of petrol.
If it gets worse there will be shortages of medicines, food, as farmers need diesel, trucks, trains ( freight trains) need diesel. There will probably be no more NRL games and zero crowds. It will affect every aspect of life. I seriously don't understand why Australia doesn't refine its own fuel and open up the refineries they shut down.
Mallee, if you don't understand why Australia does not refine its own fuel, can I add details to kick that understanding along?
What refineries closer this century? Port Stanvac, 2003 (Howard), Kurnell & Bulwer Island, 2014 (Abbott), Kwiwana & Altona, 2021 (Morrison). All closed by commercial operators claiming lack of commercial viability. The main argument was that Asian refineries can process between 4-10 times the barrels per day of Australian refineries. In the mid-1980's imported fuel was 25% consumption, and today it is 90% consumption. That trend started with the Coalition early 90's and later all refineries allowed to close were closed under Coalition governments.
Anyone reading those facts should be highly sceptival of current Coalition claims that Labor's renewables push is undermining fuel security. It is absolute historical rubbish. The culprit lies squarely with a Coalition policy setting permissive of reliance on fuel imports.
Also, is Australian crude oil crappy and not worth refining? Absolute opposite. It is mostly light and sweet: less dense and less sulfur (vs heavy sour). It is premium crude. We just export almost all of it. Like our natural gas. We have allowed mostly foreign owned multinationals who pay little proportionate tax to extract and sell our fuel and undercut domestic fuel reliability.
What would be interesting is if every time some clown blasts Australian universities for being "reliant on foreign export trade income", or overseas students, they applied the same logic to our oil and gas export industry, which is utterly reliant on exports to a much higher degree.
Thanks for that Information. It's crazy that Australia has such high quality crude oil that could/should be refined here n Australia which would solve our own petrol shortage and create more jobs for Australians. I just don't understand the way these decisions are made by people in places of authority that could make choices that will benefit Australians. Just doesn't make sense
Daz, Love ya passion for the Eels and your a great bloke, but I have to ask why the need to turn so many things political. I trust your points of view are held very tight to yourself which is great. Whether I agree or disagree, i attempt to remain neutral and bring stuff back to footy. I have to ask though in the interests of fairness and not in any way to debate political views or leanings why you left out that it was actually Julia Gillards "Labor Govt" that announced the closure of Kurnell in July 2012.
July 26, 2012, during the Federal Labor Government led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Now i don't care who did what or when, but let's be straight up, because if none of us are straight up then when we get called out it only diminishes our argument. Surely the way forward is no matter whom is in govt, that we demand things be rectified, repaired , reopened, re investment etc that makes Australia more self reliant and creates more Australian Jobs for those that want them. We are Australian, major investment and large resource infrastructure iwould suggest should transcend politics and an Australian wealth fund or the like established that can plan things that require decades of planing and construction, not living within the 3 year voting cycle for political parties, where no one party can achieve great big things.
'The idea of blaming which ever side of politics in the past does not serve to fix things moving forward. A true leader will lead, they will understand the history and then set about not repeating the mistakes, they will do what's best for those they lead, not self preservation.Its what a country needs in a democracy, but it's rare to find that leader on any side of politics. Getting things done for the good of all should not be war of words against left and right.
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