{"id":586463,"date":"2026-04-05T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:46:09","slug":"stick-to-easter-travel-australians-told-though-hundreds-of-petrol-stations-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586463\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to Easter travel, Australians told, though hundreds of petrol stations dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australians were urged to maintain their travel plans for Easter weekend although hundreds of petrol stations, mostly in rural areas, were without power on Saturday, as the Iran war continued to strain the nation\u2019s fuel \u200csupply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEaster is a very special time of faith and family,\u201d Energy Minister Chris Bowen said in televised remarks. \u201cWe encourage people to feel free to stick to your plans, go and see your family, go take a break \u2013 but get no more fuel than you need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Australia-Sydney-petrol-station-300326012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><br \/>A woman looks at signs displayed on empty fuel dispensers at a Shell petrol station that ran out of fuel, in Sydney, Australia, on 30th March, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Hollie Adams\/File photo<\/p>\n<p>Australia, which imports about 90 per cent of its fuel, has experienced localised shortages during the escalating Middle East conflict, starting its sixth week on Saturday. As a result, some have cancelled travel plans for the long holiday weekend, typically one of Australia\u2019s busiest \u200btravel times.<\/p>\n<p>The nation has 39 days\u2019 \u200bworth of petrol, 29 days of diesel and \u206030 days of jet fuel, Bowen said.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe rely on our readers to fund Sight&#8217;s work &#8211; become a financial supporter today!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe total number of service stations without diesel in Australia, which is where the main pressure has been, is 312 out of the around 8,000 service stations,\u201d Bowen said, adding that most of the impacted stations were in country areas, as it took longer to replenish those fuel stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in a rare address to the nation, this week warned the economic shocks of \u200bthe war in the Middle East would be felt for months and encouraged citizens to take public transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters Australians were urged to maintain their travel plans for Easter weekend although hundreds of petrol stations, mostly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2324,64,63,28486,266256,265908,44,19136,5520],"class_list":{"0":"post-586463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-anthony-albanese","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-chris-bowen","12":"tag-easter","13":"tag-easter-travel","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-oil","16":"tag-petrol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586463","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=586463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}