The fuel crisis has forced Bowen and company to release a stockpile of previously restricted “high sulphur fuel” to boost domestic supply and ease the fuel crisis.
This easing of Australia’s fuel standards will release an additional 100 million litres of fuel per month, which equates to about two days’ of extra supply, and will be in place for the next 60 days. The NRMA rejects the tag “dirty fuel” used for higher sulphur fuel, saying it’s not really dirty fuel in the sense that it’s going to hurt your engine. It’s simply one of the stupid Euro-style green excesses that ultimately lock out refining competitors to the main players like Shell and BP.
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has launched an urgent enforcement investigation into Australia’s four biggest fuel suppliers – Ampol, BP, Mobil, Viva Energy.
The complaint to the ACCC is that during the worst fuel crisis in decades these fuel suppliers are cutting off diesel supply to independent distributors servicing regional and rural Australia.
So while country towns are running dry and farmers are watching their machinery sit idle, the companies controlling 85 percent of Australia’s fuel supply are allegedly making sure their own branded stations got stocked first.
Whether or not the ACCC can properly and effectively address this issue is in question, as the ACCC is notoriously feeble when dealing with big business, however transport industry observers say the ACCC going public at the start of an active investigation is almost unheard of.
“When the watchdog breaks protocol you know the problem is bigger than the press releases are letting on,” a transport industry statement said..
Viva Energy may not be familiar to many readers. It is the company behind Shell distributors and owns one of only two refineries in Australia, their one being located in Geelong, Victoria, which began operations in 1954 and today employs more than 1100 people and supplies more than 50 percent of Victoria’s and 10 percent of Australia’s fuel.
The refinery can process up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day, manufacturing petrol, diesel, LPG, jet fuel, avgas and low aromatic fuel to reduce the petrol-sniffing problem in remote Aboriginal communities.
Meanwhile the Australian Trucking Association (ATA) is calling on the government to activate disaster recovery funding immediately, temporarily scrap the road user charge, and update owner driver cost orders to reflect what fuel actually costs right now, Australian Road Train Life reports.
They also want the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) and state governments to issue urgent notices allowing greater use of high productivity freight vehicles on major freight routes, giving operators a way to move more freight per trip and offset some of the cost pain.
On the industry side the ATA will give members ready-to-use materials to switch to monthly tax statements and to explain to customers why fuel levies and freight rates need to go up.
“The core message is simple: operators are bleeding and they need relief now, not after another round of reviews and hearings,” says the ATA. “Whether the government actually moves on any of this is another story.”
ATA’s cynicism is not unfounded as Albanese and his Canberra mob are largely divorced from economic reality, pushing “progressive” agendas like “climate action”, which infers that fossil fuels but be eventually banned in order to “save the planet”.
What Albanese and company and their Green wing don’t understand is that so-called fossil fuels are literally the lifeblood of any modern economy, but what they do understand is that the petrol bowser is a guaranteed revenue source to pay the interest on their borrowing for big spending programs.
Cairns News has already reported Federal MP Kennedy Bob Katter and independent MPs from across Australia are demanding urgent implementation of self-sufficient national fuel solutions, including a structural transition to biofuels by securing the domestic supply of renewable ethanol-blended petrol and biodiesel.
They also called on the Albanese government to empower the Treasurer to control fuel prices instead of simply ‘monitoring’ price-gouging and to immediately suspending the outrageous 52c-a-litre fuel excise tax at the bowsers.
Neglected refining capabilities and strengthening liquid fuel reserves should also be restored.
Fossil fuel term was introduced by Rockefeller scientists. Please, oil is an abundant mineral in Australia. Finally, this resource rich Nation should be self sufficient. Love you Cairns News.
In relation to manipulation by the powers who ought not be in control:
Check out the Precipitation map today (09:30) for Sydney and WA cyclone Narelle.
https:// http://www.ventusky.com/precipitation-map/3-hours#p=-35.4;153.9;3&t=20260327/0000
Is there a better example of squared perimeter barriers in recent years?
To go one better click on Radar tab: the map shows a triangular shaped Low SE of Sydney.
If this seems to be HAARPing on about weather modification, you are correct.
WeatherAsAForceMultiplier/WeatherAsAForceMultiplier
It isn’t an accident farmers are short on fuel, they have make business decisions, like the question now would something like ‘do I plant crops or not this year, as do I have enough fuel, or will I be able to even get it?’. It cost money to plant crops, water them, harvest them, put it on trucks…It is the uncertainty that will stop them doing what they usually do, and that is farming.
A cascading crisis: Australian fertilizer plant failure exacerbates impending food supply shortage
h ttps://www.naturalnews.com/2026-03-23-australian-fertilizer-plant-failure-exacerbates-impending-food-supply-shortage.html
The Global Energy Collapse: How Trump’s War is Unleashing Famine, Fuel Rationing, and the End of Abundance
h ttps://www.naturalnews.com/2026-03-25-global-energy-collapse-trumps-war-unleashing-famine.html
This all just has to tie into The UN’s Agenda 2030/WEF’s ‘The Great Reset’ or these Satanic arseholes are just wasting an absolutely fabulous and fantastic opportunity for their plans right?
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
And we STILL haven’t worked out that we Aussies are being fkd over by our selected and then ‘elected’ Uniparty politicians serving our worst interests?
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Whoever says our treacherous ‘representatives’ don’t know what they’re talking about doesn’t know what they’re saying. We Aussies have been slowly demolished from self sufficiency and independence to near slavery and complete dependence on foreign interests.
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All we make today in Australia is coffees for each other. We’re well on the way to owning nothing and being happy, right? So sit back, relax and enjoy. Your kids will thank you for your efforts.
“The juice, the precious juice, was hidden in the vehicles.
As for me, I grew to manhood
and in the fullness of time, I became the leader
the Chief of the Great Northern Tribe.
And the Road Warrior?
That was the last we ever saw of him.
He lives now
only in my memories” – Mad Max 2
People have been continually lied to, misled and dumbed down, in the early 1900’s they knew Crude Oil is Abiotic and almost infinite, it occurs naturally beneath the Earth’s crust, John D Rockefeller us his incredible influence to convince the general public that Crude oil was finite and a fossil fuel, when in fact this wasn’t the truth, it was motivated purely by self interest. Crude Oil is the second most abundant fluid on our Planet, after water. As a case in point, the once dried up wells in Pennsylvania are now slowly refilling.
Good. The sooner this country collapses, the more change is possible.
Aussies = cattle.
It goes to show how weak and utterly rubbish our UnaParty governments are that they have neglected refineries up to this point, these refineries have been around for a century and the design is not very challenging, I blame the WA Cook government for this since there is plenty of oil being pumped in the North West and wasteland galore to put a refinery on. The Chinese would have one going already by now starting March 1 when we heard about this attack on Persia. It could not be simpler for Australia but simple, obvious, convenient, sensible, cheap is of no interest to our UnaParty idiots who instead want to fill us up with their nonsensical injections and now we have seen playing games with their “urgent care clinics” where huge amounts of over-servicing by medical tests can be done to the hypochondriacs. This is their solution to the political fallout from cancelling bulk-billing, which they now pretend they are expanding ( from the nothing they created ). They actually did the same with fuel, they demanded super clean fuel then raised the national standard then as a measure to save us from running out, they lowered the standard back again to where it was. Thus, we are saved.
Half of the lobbyists sneaking around in the APH Canberra must be working for Rockerfellas MedicalSystemâ„¢ and BigPharma trying to make everyone sick because they have been very successful, if you take a walk through some low income suburbs you will get the idea, they are creating Useless Eaters as fast as they can, while at the same time making life harder for farmers and small business. With all the resources of a place like Australia it is almost impossible to screw it up but our UnaParty politicians are aiming to do that and they are achieving it by so many devious means, and they are not smart enough to even realise the extent to which they are controlled, with their snouts in the trough. The UnaParty is down to less than 50% of the vote but still they think what they are doing is invisible to the public.
Seems the political elite are making a case for Martial Law?
The article states – “… What Albanese and company and their Green wing don’t understand is that so-called fossil fuels are literally the lifeblood of any modern economy…”
Close, but no cigar. OF COURSE they “understand”, these things, OF COURSE they know that they’re STRANGLING our country. The fact is that they don’t CARE, they literally do not give a rat’s arse, because they DO NOT work for us and they DO NOT answer to us, THEIR loyalties are to their foreign-owned Satan-loving baby-eating benefactors and handlers and OWNERS.
See that headline photo with the four smiling faces? Those are sold-out paid-off foreign-owned baby-eating GANGSTERS smiling at you, folks, because they KNOW they can KILL you and they ARE killing you and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post might wipe some of those smiles off those faces, in about five or six years time.
24 year count down to 2050:
https: //ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/
Flying & Shipping = Stop Sign
Road Vehicles at 60% of 2020 use.
Neither side of the duopoly gives a toss about the fuel situation! The sh!t for brains Liberals were the imbecile who sold off our fuel reserves to the frigging Yanks back in 2002!! And now they are being paid off by the refining cartel!! Couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery, either of them!
Don’t hold your breath
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