{"id":584619,"date":"2026-04-04T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:29:09","slug":"fewer-service-stations-running-out-of-petrol-and-diesel-as-australias-fuel-supplies-remain-strong-energy-minister-says-petrol-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584619\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer service stations running out of petrol and diesel as Australia\u2019s fuel supplies remain strong, energy minister says | Petrol prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fewer service stations are running out of fuel, with supplies to Australia still strong as people enjoy their Easter break<\/a>, the federal energy minister says.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s fuel supply remains strong with more than 50 ships on their way to top up tanks and a reducing number of service stations running out of petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n

As of Saturday morning, Australia had 39 days\u2019 worth of petrol, 29 days\u2019 worth of diesel and 30 days\u2019 worth of jet fuel amid ongoing strong demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact these figures are effectively flat means fuel is going out the door to service stations and farmers, and fuel is going in the door at Australia\u2019s import terminals and refineries,\u201d the energy minister, Chris Bowen<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n

He thanked those working hard to get fuel to where it\u2019s needed to meet the demand.<\/p>\n

The number of service stations running out of petrol and diesel has gone down.<\/p>\n

In NSW 150 service stations were without diesel, 32 less than on Friday, in Victoria 51 had run out of diesel, down by 23, and in Queensland 49 were without diesel, down by seven since the start of the Easter break.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe total number of service stations without diesel in Australia, which is where the main pressure has been, is 312 out of around 8,000,\u201d Bowen told reporters in Sydney.<\/p>\n

He reiterated the Albanese government\u2019s call for people to stick to their Easter holiday plans but to buy no more fuel than they needed and to buy it in the city to help keep fuel supplies up in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia\u2019s fuel supply remains strong still, more than 50 ships are on their way to Australia, still only six cancellations of forward orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowen said new orders had more than replaced the cancelled ones and fuel companies had told him they were very confident of the supply of 3.7bn litres booked in for April and going into May.<\/p>\n

NRMA spokesperson Peter Khoury told reporters a positive was that the international benchmark price for unleaded petrol had stabilised.<\/p>\n

That and the cut in the fuel excise was being reflected at the bowser, with the average price in most capital cities for unleaded now in the low $2.20s, about a 20 to 30 cents a litre reduction.<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralians can have confidence that they can go away this weekend, they can have a break with their families, they can go on a road trip and there is going to be petrol and diesel for them,\u201d Khoury said.<\/p>\n

That would benefit regional communities which rely heavily on tourism, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want fuel sitting in your jerry can at home because that belongs in a truck or in a harvester,\u201d Khoury said.<\/p>\n

Bowen said the majority of imported fuel had come from Asian refineries but since the war in the Middle East, Australia had been sourcing fuel from the US, Mexico and other countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a good thing for diversifying supply.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khoury said data showed Australians were combining trips to save fuel, such as school runs and shopping, and that helped the nation.<\/p>\n

Stockpiling was a \u201creally bad idea\u201d Bowen said, and it was dangerous to have jerry cans of fuel sitting in garages.<\/p>\n

It was seeding and sowing season in NSW and that\u2019s why service station fuel outages had been higher in that state, the minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I do think, I hope, that we\u2019re seeing now the worst of that past,\u201d Bowen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly how this war will end. I\u2019m not sure anyone around the world does but the sooner it ends the better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fewer service stations are running out of fuel, with supplies to Australia still strong as people enjoy their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-584619","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\/584619","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=584619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}