{"id":558442,"date":"2026-03-23T05:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558442\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:37:16","slug":"australia-faces-a-fuel-crisis-of-its-own-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/558442\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia faces a fuel crisis of its own making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within hours of its entry into World War I, the British government had taken control of the nation\u2019s railways. Within days, it had introduced a national maritime insurance scheme to underwrite losses arising from the loss of ships and cargo. The reason for quick action, in both cases, was to secure the national food supply \u2014 Britain was dependent on shipping to import the food the nation needed, and on its railways to distribute it to the cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s fuel crisis due to the US-Israel war in Iran bears a striking similarity to the one the British government faced in 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Within hours of its entry into World War I, the British government had taken control of the nation\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[275600,64,63,99,275601,164,2572,7445,3691,5520,143126],"class_list":["post-558442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-2025-iran-war","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-crude-oil-reserves","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-food-security","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-petrol","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558442","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=558442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}