More than 100 service stations across NSW have run out of diesel due to a fuel crisis amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. <\/p>\n
NSW Premier Chris Minns said on Monday that independent service stations are having difficulties securing access to petrol and diesel. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs it stands today, as a result of the strategic reserves being released and the sulphur content restrictions being eased, there is in fact more petrol in the economy today than there was five weeks ago or four weeks ago,\u201d Mr Minns said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issues that you\u2019re seeing in terms of supply for consumers is the distribution of it, and also in some areas overconsumption of people just taking more than they need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Minns confirmed 105 stations in NSW don\u2019t have access to diesel and 35 stations don\u2019t have access to anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there\u2019s 2500 stations across NSW today,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u2018Be a grown-up\u2019: Joyce, Plibersek trade insults over fuel crisis<\/p>\n
It comes after a talk show segment was derailed, leaving a journalist speechless, after two guests traded barbs while live on air.<\/p>\n
While speaking to Sunrise host Natalie Barr on Monday morning, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce and Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek hurled insults at one another as they bickered over Australia\u2019s growing fuel scarcity problems.<\/p>\n
The sparks began flying as Ms Plibersek said she acknowledged there were \u201cproblems in getting fuel supplies out to regional areas\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cDozens of fuel bowsers are empty \u2026 this is in Neutral Bay, in the city, in Sydney, there\u2019s dozens (of bowsers) empty. The little signs say no fuel,\u201d Barr said, correcting the minister.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s exactly why we\u2019ve released fuels from our emergency stocks. It\u2019s why we\u2019ve got Ampol prioritising regional areas, it\u2019s why we\u2019ve appointed a fuel co-ordinator. We know there are problems with distribution,\u201d Ms Plibersek said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most helpful things people can do is just buy the fuel they need and no more \u2026 there is the same amount of fuel coming as we\u2019ve previously had.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Ms Plibersek spoke, Mr Joyce said \u201cthis is crazy\u201d repeatedly.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Ms Plibersek lashed out, fed up with the interruptions, telling Mr Joyce to \u201cbe a grown-up for a change\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be really helpful if you behaved as an adult on issues like this,\u201d she said as Mr Joyce continued to interrupt her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWork from home so you don\u2019t use fuel; sounds like fuel rationing to me Tanya,\u201d Mr Joyce said.<\/p>\n
The suggestion of working from home originally came from Energy Minister Chris Bowen and has since been slammed by several high-profile opposition MPs, including deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky News on Monday morning, Senator Hume said she was scratching her head at the idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if everybody that could work from home, whose employers wanted them to did so, it\u2019s not going to solve the problem, which is one of supply and distribution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust last week or the week before last we heard Chris Bowen say that there isn\u2019t a problem, that we have plenty of fuel. Then, days later, he was saying that this is a national crisis. He was employing a fuel tsar to essentially do what should be his job, perhaps because he\u2019s distracted by his job at the UN.<\/p>\n
\u201cWork from home might be terrific for people in cities, but it doesn\u2019t help the truckers, it doesn\u2019t help fishers, it doesn\u2019t help farmers and it doesn\u2019t help those struggling with supply and access to diesel and petrol right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Industry Minister Tim Ayres said the government wouldn\u2019t be \u201ccomplacent\u201d about what the war meant for Australian industries and assured people that he was \u201cwatching it very closely\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will have seen the announcement the Prime Minister made last week of the co-ordinator general role in this area, working with the states and territories to make sure there is alignment between what the commonwealth is doing terms of fuel supply nationally and working with industry and the states to deliver right through the chain,\u201d Mr Ayres said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve enabled the ACCC to take a firmer role, both on the price monitoring side and providing stiffer penalties, but we are also making sure that they don\u2019t get in the way of co-operation between the fuel companies and regional communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not complacent about what this what this war in the Middle East means for Australia and Australian industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
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