{"id":343318,"date":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343318\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","slug":"pm-luxon-announces-new-fuel-supply-measures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343318\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Luxon announces new fuel supply measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking at his post-Cabinet press conference from Parliament, where an update is expected on fuel supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones were also due to attend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/23\/govt-eases-fuel-rules-to-allow-australianspec-petrol-and-diesel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Govt eases fuel rules to allow Australian\u2011spec petrol and diesel &#8211; Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 1pm on Monday, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment said the country had 49.9 days&#8217; stocks of petrol, 45.5 of diesel and 44.7 of jet fuel, as of late on March 18. Combined stock was 46.9 days.<\/p>\n<p>The previous update, which was accurate to March 15, showed there was 51.3 days\u2019 worth of petrol, 47.1 days of diesel and 49 days of jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, both Luxon and Willis have said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/03\/23\/luxon-signals-decision-on-relief-soon-latest-fuel-figures-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">any price relief<\/a> would have to be &#8220;timely, temporary, and targeted&#8221;, and pointed to the Covid-19 Royal Commission report that warned against blanket financial responses during economic shocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking at his post-Cabinet press conference from Parliament, where an update is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1667,42,43,135,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-343318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-energy","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}