Looming Jet Fuel Shortages?

[Quickstatus]

The minister just announced 6 ships of jet fuel on the water (from China)

Can you provide a link, thanks. Bowen has not made any media release about that.

 

[AuSammy]

Can you provide a link, thanks. Bowen has not made any media release about that.

Was live media conference on ABC24

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Personally I'd rather they just tell the truth and tell everyone to save fuel rather than pretend everything is ok just to avoid panic.

We complain about the nanny state, but then people can’t work out for themselves to save fuel?

Dunno how many times the government has said ‘no issue with fuel supply’… but irresponsible media has continued to feed this ‘panic we had to have’.

 

[Quickstatus]

Was live media conference on ABC24

If it was a live media conference , it wold have been also reported on the ABC website as it wold be significant. Nothing there or elsewherel

 

[jrfsp]

We complain about the nanny state, but then people can’t work out for themselves to save fuel?

Dunno how many times the government has said ‘no issue with fuel supply’… but irresponsible media has continued to feed this ‘panic we had to have’.

Just look what happened with the toilet roll and Covid

 

[Saab34]

Personally I'd rather they just tell the truth and tell everyone to save fuel rather than pretend everything is ok just to avoid panic.

They won’t want to give that line to the opposition to go them over.

 

[AuSammy]

If it was a live media conference , it wold have been also reported on the ABC website as it wold be significant. Nothing there or elsewherel

Just been repeated if you have ABC24 switched on. No idea why their rolling blog hasn't been updated.

 

[Quickstatus]

No idea why their rolling blog hasn't been updated.

I'll wait a bit longer.

 

[AuSammy]

I'll wait a bit longer.

from 13:30 onwards

 

[Pushka]

We complain about the nanny state, but then people can’t work out for themselves to save fuel?

Dunno how many times the government has said ‘no issue with fuel supply’… but irresponsible media has continued to feed this ‘panic we had to have’.

It isn't being a nanny state to tell people the truth. Maybe previously there was no issue with general supply, however the distribution of resources equally and to rural areas has been and still is, a major issue.

 

[stu961]

It isn't being a nanny state to tell people the truth. Maybe previously there was no issue with general supply, however the distribution of resources equally and to rural areas has been and still is, a major issue.

Your spot on.... the "distribution" will be the politics

 

[AuSammy]

We complain about the nanny state, but then people can’t work out for themselves to save fuel?

Dunno how many times the government has said ‘no issue with fuel supply’… but irresponsible media has continued to feed this ‘panic we had to have’.

It isn't being a nanny state to tell people the truth. Maybe previously there was no issue with general supply, however the distribution of resources equally and to rural areas has been and still is, a major issue.

The fact of life ATM is there is no "shortage of fuel" as such as yet. The war has not impacted our supplies as yet. Shortages are being created by buyer behaviour.

We have a situation where people driven by the media have been panic buying and demand is up by more than 58% in some areas. The just-in-time scheduling the industry is geared to wasn't able to respond in a very short space of time. This is being remediated and it will still take some time to fully adjust.

Additional road fuel tankers don't mysteriously appear out of thin air, schedules have to be adjusted and longer hours worked, and genuine "need" needs to be prioritised

Yes it is true the companies selfishly prioritised their own outlets for replenishing but that is now seemingly being addressed by relevant governments.

We never had a genuine shortage of toilet paper, the scenario has been repeated by the general public and the media.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

It isn't being a nanny state to tell people the truth. Maybe previously there was no issue with general supply, however the distribution of resources equally and to rural areas has been and still is, a major issue.

People always complain they don’t like government telling them what to do. But - when it suits them - are waiting for the government to tell them to save fuel?

The shortage is artificial because people are hoarding (at the moment).