{"id":545025,"date":"2026-03-16T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:46:09","slug":"trump-hits-out-at-allies-who-rebuffed-his-calls-for-help-to-secure-strait-of-hormuz-israel-continues-to-pound-iran-and-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545025\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hits out at allies who rebuffed his calls for help to secure Strait of Hormuz; Israel continues to pound Iran and Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has not ruled out the possibility of fuel rationing as the ongoing war in the Middle East places pressure on supply and prices here in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we have taken steps to put more fuel supply into the system. Over the course of the weekend, we released 20 per cent of the stock holdings that are kept in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve also loosened the restrictions, or the regulations around sulfur levels, which in turn releases about 100 million litres into the system as well per month. That does make a difference right now,\u201d Marles told ABC TV this morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cars queue for fuel at Granville, Sydney.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fabe8bfddf5c72e24daada43b7d00b2b5df32a85.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Cars queue for fuel at Granville, Sydney.Oscar Colman<\/p>\n<p>But when pressed on whether the government would consider fuel rations as an additional measure, Marles did not rule out the possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, this is a function of how long this conflict continues, and that\u2019s not something that I can answer in terms of what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Panic-buying and stockpiling are contributing to increased demand and putting pressure on fuel supplies in Australia, as some regional towns report they have run out of diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has not ruled out the possibility of fuel rationing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-545025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}