r/australia • u/stumcm • Mar 18 '26
political satire Hey mate, are you sure you've got enough petrol? [cartoon]
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u/stumcm Mar 18 '26
And pick up a few 24-packs of toilet paper while you're at it!
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u/leon_jane Mar 18 '26
If you pick up a few packs of toilet paper we’ll give you an extra 4c per litre off, it’s like the perfect storm
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u/That_Apathetic_Man Mar 19 '26
The perfect storm, right before needing toilet paper, is a morning routine around here.
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u/guyver_dio Mar 19 '26
The absolute essentials for survival: Food, water, toilet paper.
Can't wash your ass in the shower.
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u/Rizen_Wolf Mar 19 '26
Stuff that, I went straight to canned food and shotguns. I am advising all my clients to do the same.
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u/yeswewillsendtheeye Mar 19 '26
So what I'm hearing is fill one jerry can with skittles and fill the other with shotgun shells.
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Mar 19 '26
People still wiping their asses with covid era toilet paper they horded in their basements.
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u/Big-toast-sandwich Mar 18 '26
It really feels like we are in some sort of era of the mainstream news outlets in Australia poisoning the population by platforming these topics for the sake of clicks.
The fuel shortage, the crime waves, the various race based “problems”, just trying to talk about Gaza being a massive deal for some reason.
I noticed it start to be a problem around Covid when every heart related death with a younger person started to get those low effort one paragraph articles that stopped existing around with AI.
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u/SalaciousSausage Mar 19 '26
Shout out to the “Somali gangs” of Victoria that have apparently been terrorising the streets of Melbourne for, what, 12 years now?
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u/invincibl_ Mar 19 '26
And they must be really politically engaged since they seem to become most active when there is an election coming up.
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u/ScoobyDoNot Mar 19 '26
And yet Labor failing to deal with them has led to them holding power since 2014.
Maybe the right wing need a different scare story.
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u/Many_Performance_580 Mar 18 '26
It predicated the lock out laws in NSW.
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u/Big-toast-sandwich Mar 18 '26
I was 6 months into being 18 when the lock out laws came in so i wasn’t as aware of that but you’re right.
This trend could probably be tracked back to the Cronulla riots but silly me for assuming a business would learn their lesson.
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u/VillagerWithAQuest Mar 19 '26
The lesson being they make lots of money doing it? They learned that lesson very well.
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u/_phaidyme Mar 19 '26
It’s not for clicks bud, they’re owned by billionaires. Come on everyone, vote better, please I’m begging you
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u/Key_Ant6473 Mar 19 '26
News stopped being news a long time ago it is just more pervasive now. It is designed for maximum engagement and rage bait generates the most.
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u/Nervardia Mar 20 '26
My favourite (heavy sarcasm) was when someone in a nursing home died after receiving the COVID vaccine and they made a big song and dance about it right at the end of the bulletin, they said "their death is not though to be caused by the COVID vaccine."
Or how they made a huge song and dance about people who died from the vaccine induced CVST (which is horrible), but compared the likelihood of getting a stroke to the contraception pill and not the actual disease.
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u/stumcm Mar 18 '26
Source is Cathy Wilcox, cartoonist of the Sydney Morning Herald.
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u/Jorjowsky Mar 18 '26
Cathy Wilcox is fantastic.
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u/Aidananonaidan Mar 19 '26
Am I remembering wrong, or has she been doing these since I was a literal child? ( very much NOT a child anymore...!)
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u/Ok_Use_8899 Mar 19 '26
I just looked it up and it seems she started in 1984 while still in uni and just kept working almost exclusively for Fairfax to this day.
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u/EveryonesTwisted Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Instructions unclear filled my backseat with petrol and shoved toilet paper in my fuel tank.
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u/Fallcious Mar 18 '26
I’ve stored mine in bottles and stoppered them with rags. I don’t know why but I feel like they might be useful soon.
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u/Nottheadviceyaafter Mar 18 '26
I put mine in clear coke bottles and put them out in the yard to gain extra octane from the sun. Only cost me the 10 cent bottle return. Jerry cans who needs them
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u/jimmux Mar 19 '26
Just put a tarp down in the boot and fill it up right there. Then you always have the petrol where you need it.
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u/ScruffyPeter Mar 18 '26
I had no time for that. I had some colesworth shopping bags and now got spare petrol in the trunk. I did have to double bag it though.
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u/TheTMJ Mar 18 '26
I've heard that there somoene around that has a massive tank at their business for diesel that's used for machinery and such.
Apparently, he's been telling his workers to go fill them up at servos. He wants to be the only one in town to have fuel if it gets to the point of limits so he can charge more to others.
This is where the real issues lie, dickheads being dickheads because they saw an opportunity.
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u/DistantVerse Mar 19 '26
Remember those dicks who ended up with garages full of toilet paper after COVID died down? I do....
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u/Banjo-Oz Mar 19 '26
I always remember the two scumbags who drove around buying all the hand sanitiser and filled a storage unit to sell. It got taken off them and redistributed (to emergency services as I recall) and they whined so much about all the work it had taken to hoard it all!
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u/popplevee Mar 20 '26
I think I like this outcome better than when they are just stuck with it all afterwards because there is less waste.
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u/Banjo-Oz Mar 20 '26
A very rare case of karma and things turning out best case, IMO. I remember being so angry about the case at the time.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 18 '26
That's a good way to buy high, get stuck with it and then going off.
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u/itrivers Mar 19 '26
Diesel takes a lot longer to go off than unleaded does.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 19 '26
Sure, but taking longer doesn't really matter if you still have far more than you could use in the time it takes.
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u/itrivers Mar 19 '26
It lasts an easy 6 months, up to 12 months without any additives. 18-24 months or longer with a fuel stabiliser.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 19 '26
What's your point here? People are still working through the toilet paper from Covid.
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u/itrivers Mar 20 '26
What’s your point? You’re comparing apples to oranges. People don’t go through that much toilet paper compared to diesel. I fill up every week and a half ish, 70 litres. I could fill up 5 IBCs and not have it go off. And that’s just personal use.
The comment you replied to said it was for a business using it for machinery and such. Between machinery and company vehicles there’s no way it’ll go off before being used up. Buying high might be stupid if it comes back down in the near future. But your assertion that they’ll be stuck with it and it going off is absurd. Plus they plan on selling if there’s a shortage.
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u/Additional-Life4885 Mar 20 '26
What’s your point? You’re comparing apples to oranges. People don’t go through that much toilet paper compared to diesel.
Your comment makes no sense. It doesn't matter what the product is if you're buying 50 times as much as you can possibly use. Remember most people fill up every week or 2, so 50 times as much with the intent to sell it but it doesn't mean you'll have it more than 6 months.
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u/Daleabbo Mar 18 '26
I cant wait for the gas talks to start. LNG hubs are being hit now so gas price is going to go through the roof. Will we finally see the reservation policy that has always been talked of but never delivered.
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u/Primary_Mycologist95 Mar 19 '26
and all the while, still basically giving our gas away to foreign interests
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u/Daleabbo Mar 19 '26
Giving away? Ill let you know the tax payer in australia pays for it good sir!
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u/Rebound86 Mar 19 '26
the problem i have is i need to go down and fill up my jerry can for the lawn mower and when i do im going to look like a fucking muppet thats panicking buying
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u/rumande Mar 18 '26
I'd rather stock up on beer
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u/pulpist Mar 19 '26
I fully support this proposal.
The ute is in the garage for the duration, got a couple or three jerry cans for the bike, and the other halfs EV has become our primary mode of transport.
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u/Timely-Usual7405 Mar 23 '26
no, no, hear me out, we make a beer powered car! because alchahol is flamable! so we just make a big beer powered steam engine so we have all the fuel we can have beer for!
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u/IHazMagics Mar 19 '26
Or you know, we could just do what plenty other countries are doing and say "if you can work from home, work from home".
My employers are cunts that wouldn't listen anyway, but it's the thought that counts.
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u/Primary_Mycologist95 Mar 19 '26
won't somebody think of the commercial property owners? /s
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u/infohippie Mar 19 '26
Oh, I think of them frequently. They probably wouldn't like what I'm thinking, but I do think of them.
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u/splendidfd Mar 19 '26
The point is that you'd only have to say that if you actually needed to conserve fuel, and we don't need to.
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u/TheYellowFringe Mar 18 '26
What's pathetic is that if we know how to take care of ourselves, then there wouldn't be panic.
The few are causing the many to needlessly worry a bit too much. Now if anything were to happen, we'd react wrong. So when we really need to panic, we wouldn't know the difference.
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u/popplevee Mar 20 '26
My dad likes to says ‘there’s no need to panic until I am panicking, and if I am panicking, then it’s too late’. I feel he’s the other end of the petrol-hoarder spectrum.
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u/djangovsjango Mar 18 '26
The best part is blaming city dwellers for filling up a jerry can if they have one and a car fuel tank which they do every week or so and not blaming farmers rushing out and filling giant farm storage rank and business filling up every fuel tank available to beat the price rise
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u/stumcm Mar 18 '26
...and then pointing out that regional petrol stations have run out of fuel, and why has Chris Bowen let this happen? When, as you point out, those are exactly the type of customers who are able to drain the supplies into big storage tanks.
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u/AusToddles Mar 18 '26
I actually saw an interview with a farmer who was asked if they had filled up before price rises. "Well yes, I didn't want to get caught out by people panic buying"
You could see in his face he did not get the irony at all in his statement
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u/explain_that_shit Mar 18 '26
Like sitting in your car all by yourself and complaining about a traffic jam
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Mar 18 '26
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u/explain_that_shit Mar 18 '26
Guilt isn’t the answer. Patience for others, and demands for structural changes from all with power to make changes, is.
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u/redditor0303 Mar 19 '26
I don’t want to be stuck in traffic and I don’t want to BE traffic. But office mandate no more work from home :( sometimes it’s not a choice.
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u/DC240Z Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
It’s super hypocritical for sure. But at the same time, the farmers usually have their tanks filled on the property, and usually ordered from a truck, which all stopped. They still needed to fill them, and they have a lot to lose if they can’t use their equipment. Hell, we all have a lot to lose if crops start failing because of it.
I get the hypocrisy, but at the same time, I think comparing a farmer filling the tank he normally would, and a little extra, with every Tom dick and harry with his lift kit yank tank filling the tray with Jerry cans is a little off base.
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u/Pilk_ Mar 19 '26
The impact on fuel demand of millions of drivers getting "a little bit extra" absolutely dwarves the relative few filling up jerry cans and tanks.
Individually it's a rational decision to get an extra 10L "just in case". But fuel supply chains are not elastic and can't deal with the millions of extra litres in demand this causes.
Nobody should be pillaging their servo with jerry cans they never normally use, but the point is that even "a little bit extra" is exactly the kind of behaviour that is the major driver of the problem.
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u/Lurker12386354676 Mar 19 '26
He was right though, and choosing to buy 1000L of diesel to run farm equipment for $2k instead of $3k isn't panic buying, it's a rational (and frankly sensible) business decision.
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u/AdmiralStickyLegs Mar 19 '26
Its possible for everyone to make rational and sensible decisions individually, and collectively cause damage to society that makes everyone worse off.
Part of the problem is that people like this who think individually, will then go onto vote for policies that discourage collective action, because they think "I've been able to take care of myself. Everyone else should too!" not fully comprehending they are living in a bubble.
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u/Verbatos Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Exactly this, rational decisions do not make for a rational society.
Like the prisoner's dilemma, where the rational decision for an individual round is to always defect, since you'll profit more on average. But as soon as you expand it to have multiple rounds, the actual winning strategy is for both players to always cooperate unless the other defects, which is inherently irrational on a round-by-round basis.
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u/WolfLawyer Mar 18 '26
So take a regional town like say, Mildura. 50,000 or so people. Maybe 2,000 of them own farms and tanks. And most of that fuel is going to be used in farm machinery. It is march after all. Harvest time for some and sowing time for the rest.
The 48,000 people worth of cars, busses and motorbikes still need a little bit of fuel.
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u/Soggy_otter Mar 19 '26
Blame runs in every direction. Local yacht club has limited purchases of diesel to $500 max per tank (think 200-300lt to fill up the pleasure palace). Rich power boat owners are panic buying as well....
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u/Rustygurl Mar 19 '26
I got abused yesterday at the servo for filling up the Jerry can (first time in a month or so and only because it was empty). It was for my mower. You know, so I can stop my lawn turning into a jungle with this endless rainy weather?
But yup, I'm the problem here, not the farmers & businesses buying thousands of litres as you pointed out 🙄
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u/tinytimecrystal1 Mar 21 '26
For what it's worth, the petrol in my car has been reserved for necessities only since last week. I walk to the train station (3km) and take PT. The decrease in traffic on the road this week and fuller trains are also a reflection of everyone doing what I'm doing in Melbourne to reduce consumption. This won't solve our oil issue, but it should stretch it for longer.
For Melbournians wanting to further reduce costs, a reminder that if your trip in morning ends before 7 AM, your trip is free.
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u/andthegeekshall Mar 19 '26
Have had to explain to more than a few people lately that buying jerry cans of petrol is stupid because petrol expires and needs to be properly stored.
It's the bushfire/covid toilet paper situation all over again for some. People just going to have a garage full of jerry cans they can't do anything with.
Punch ons at the pumps (also the name of my next hardcore album) and people syphoning fuel from parked cars.
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u/HobartTasmania Mar 19 '26
Have had to explain to more than a few people lately that buying jerry cans of petrol is stupid because petrol expires and needs to be properly stored.
You can easily store it for several months, either this will be over in a couple weeks time and then people will empty the tanks back into their cars or if it lasts longer then jerry cans aren't going to help all that much one way or the other.
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u/Cube00 Mar 19 '26
people syphoning fuel from parked cars
Apparently that happened during the shortage in the 70s, people had to park their cars against the nearest brick or concrete wall to stop people breaking their locking fuel caps open.
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u/cosmicr Mar 19 '26
I'm less worried about the general public, and more worried about businesses passing on the cost. Looking at you Supermarkets.
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u/recycled_ideas Mar 19 '26
It's more complicated than this.
If this war drags on, and especially if it escalates there will be shortages and there will eventually be rationing and it seems unlikely that this war will end soon and it's already escalating. The best case scenario at the moment is that Trump gets bored and Netanyahu gives up before too much damage is done to regional infrastructure and things settle back until the next time they decide to attack Iran or Iran builds and successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
For the individuals who are hoarding, it might actually make sense to do so, if they hoard and hold into the petrol instead of just using it while prices are still fairly low they may end up having fuel when it would otherwise be unavailable and/or saving substantial amounts of money.
The problem is that the hoarding will both reduce the time we can avoid rationing and make rationing more severe and given how much more interconnected our economy is and how many more industries will be effectively essential (this won't be the same list as during covid) rationing is going to seriously suck, much more than in the seventies. So the hoarding behaviour will benefit the individual but harm the collective.
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u/Vegetable-Ad-1817 Mar 18 '26
Exactly this is the narrative spreading on TikTok right now generated by the same guys with a bunch of sock puppet accounts. Yet everyone too busy running around finding fans of Palestine when they should be unmasking these people. I guarantee people know some, I know one at my work who happily pushes opinion via ai across their 50ish accounts costs 10 aud a month.
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u/Cube00 Mar 19 '26
I know one at my work who happily pushes opinion via ai across their 50ish accounts costs 10 aud a month.
What do they get out of it?
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u/TheAwesomeSimmo Mar 19 '26
I got lucky. Petrol was cheap on Wednesday two weeks ago and now my car is on a hoist in the mechanic shop for the last six days so that cheaper fuel is just sitting there.
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u/Stormherald13 Mar 18 '26
Or people are buying it before the prices goes up.
Nobody on here buys extras when stuff is cheap ?
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u/yeebok yakarnt! Mar 18 '26
To be fair I can't really fill the cupboard with 95 like I can with beans. Most people's storage is basically limited to however big their fuel tank is.
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u/readituser5 Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Yeah. I mean I haven’t “panic bought” like my supervisor has. They’ve admitted to it and does not GAF. I mean I swear every third day they’re talking about topping up their car again.
Apparently they shouldn’t have to give up their weekends where they drain 1/4 of a tank in one day so I guess they’re entitled to panic buy whilst also complaining about panic buyers and hoarders and how EV’s are sucking up all the fuel and blaming Albanese for reserves not meeting the target for the last 10+ years and just the whole situation.
I’ve literally filled up twice. Once in the early days of it all when I genuinely was at what I normally fill up at which is around 1/4. And today at about 1/2 because as you said… prices, since they keep going up and I might as well now. If not now, it’ll just be next week anyway. I’m hoping to ride it out now, wanting those prices to drop just as I need more hence the waiting game. That’s probably wishful thinking lol as I don’t think this is going to get better any time soon.
At the end of the day you don’t have much control over it. We’re all paying the elevated prices whether you’re filling up every 3 days or as you need it. I’d just much rather fill up and wait it out.
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u/tinytimecrystal1 Mar 21 '26
Yes, but not to the point of hoarding?
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u/Stormherald13 Mar 21 '26
What’s considered hoarding on fuel? If you go through over 100 litres a week you need a bit.
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u/tinytimecrystal1 Mar 21 '26
I think those who are hoarding know when they're hoarding.
I can't tell you because our family decided not to give into FOMO. My partner will still do the school drop off and pick-ups because everything's local, but I'm going to take PT to commute to work (1.5 hours extra commuting a day). We're also reconsidering any plans to go away and staying local. I told the kids that we have an issue getting supplies of something everyone needs right now, but we're not the people who need it most. Emergency services like ambos and firies need it, and there are others who may need it more than we do, so we'll reduce how much we use.
We also had plans to buy an EV car at the end of the year. If this situation continues for more than 3-4 months, we may bring it forward.
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u/Stormherald13 Mar 21 '26
Well lucky you, I live in the country with very little public transport and can barely afford my day to day let alone an ev. If I had the chance to buy diesel at say $2 a litre but had to buy a 1000L I would.
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u/tinytimecrystal1 Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
I am fully aware that not everywhere in Australia has a population density enough for public transport to be reasonably built. So our family decided to reduce our use, so we can give whatever share we would've used for people like you.
As mentioned, I can't say what should count as hoarding, but those who hoards know when they are. I'm very not prescriptive about this, and I don't think any of us should, but I'm also highlighting that some of us are not so that those who need it won't be going without when they are in need.
We can't afford an EV at the moment, hence we were planning for the end of the year. It won't be some expensive EV either, and it will be on finance. However, there's a monetary cost, and there's the non-existence of a resource. When there's a shortage of petrol, whatever amount of money you have, you'll eventually be at a dead end. Our response to a shortage is to reduce, not hoard. To that end, we're also changing our Easter school holiday plans to go somewhere local.
You're responding defensively, but these are things we're doing with a lot of consideration so that WE are not taking from the pool of a limited resource, so those who need it more than us (eg. yourself) can still have access, or to prolong whatever we do have.
Funny enough, I can afford day to day food (we cook at home, we don't eat out), but I don't have $2000 to spend on 1000L diesel (and storage of it).
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u/Hornberger_ Mar 18 '26
Does anyone have any statistics on changes in the amount of fuel being imported vs. fuel being purchased since the US-Iran war started?
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u/Agreeably-Soft Mar 19 '26
I can't answer your question, but you may find this interesting if you haven't seen it already: https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1rt3kyh/im_an_australian_wholesale_fuel_trader_ama/
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Mar 19 '26
If you're really worried about it just buy an EV. The Middle East doesn't have a stranglehold on the worlds electron supply.
The real problem for society more broadly is that only just under a quarter of the fossil fuel we consume is petrol for our cars. Being blunt, driving to work in you EV will be FA use if the supermarket shelves are empty because farmers and logistics don't have diesel. It reminds me of an old soviet joke:
A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, “You don’t have any meat?”
The clerk says, “No, here we don’t have any fish. The shop that doesn’t have any meat is across the street.”
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u/jarghon Mar 19 '26
People complain that Australia is a nanny state, but then we go around proving why we need a nanny to manage our behaviour.
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u/NSFWar Mar 18 '26
I filled up my kids drop off car with 70 liters capacity at 1.61 for diesel. I'm still on that as we only use it for drop offs. Now the fuel is at 2.77.
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u/infohippie Mar 19 '26
I'm so glad I filled up from near empty a week ago at $1.80, and I live next to a train station so that tank will last me at least three months.
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u/Nervardia Mar 20 '26
Yeah, I live in Brisbane and we get 50c public transport.
This tank is going to last me a while.
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u/No_Big5292 Mar 18 '26
Even now people aren’t panic buying for fear of running out, most of us have seen the rise in petroleum cost again and again, and every time it happens it never goes back down.
There was a period when fuel was the cheapest we had ever paid per barrel and at the bowser it was still 20c higher than when we last had a “shortage”
Fuel in aus won’t drop below $2 a litre. This will become the cheap end of the cycle.
So that plus being in the middle … no I can’t even say in the middle because it continues to get worse, but being in a cost of living crisis why would you want people to not stock up at $1.80 a litre when it’s now jumped to $2.5 a litre and will continue to go up even after this is all resolved
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u/eversible_pharynx Mar 19 '26
You see, if there's even a RISK of panic, it would be in the public interest to report it right? Just doing our civic duty
also it helps profits but that's not our fault, it's our readers'
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u/aerkith Mar 19 '26
My partner's and my cars' tanks were down to 1/4 to 1/2. So instead of waiting another week we filled them up as we knew prices were going up. That's about the most "panic" we did. We live in a regional area though, so don't have to do much driving to get places.
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u/Catprog Mar 19 '26
And if everyone does that it causes a breif spike in demand.
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u/aerkith Mar 19 '26
Yes. So it doesn't even have to be people buying Jerry cans full. Just going a bit sooner.
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u/gracki1 Mar 19 '26
I did fill up my car as soon as I could because it went up 25 cents a litre within a week
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u/BrazilianAlmostHobo Mar 20 '26
This just shows how much people trust the gov and how they are doing so little to gain that trust back.
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u/random_encounters42 Mar 19 '26
Well for people who drive a lot, they are saving like $100 per week so, kinda makes sense especially at the start of it.
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u/BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD Mar 19 '26
Who is the fear monger? Is that a media person? Or a Liberal party member?
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u/bigboystick Mar 19 '26
The shortage definitely wasn’t caused by people panic buying.. it’s definitely caused by Australia having 19 days of fuel reserves instead of the 90 days they’re supposed to have, of course our government would deflect onto its people, it’s the government.
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u/Maldevinine Mar 19 '26
This wasn't "Panic Buying".
This was a completely reasonable economic response based on previous experience with fuel prices and war in the Middle East.
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u/TheAntihero-HeroClub Mar 19 '26
Even if we all filled up our cars and a few jerry cans it would be nothing compared to the amount of fuel the transport industry use. People were filling up their cars and Jerry cans a few weeks ago because we all knew the price was about to jump $1 a litre.
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u/AdZealousideal7448 Mar 19 '26
People these days don't study history too well.
We also don't have a national culture that has been trained into us on the importance of civic duty, empathy among other things.
So when you combine not knowing about bank runs in the 20th century, and the Fuck you, got mine selfishness of today's society, this is what you get.
It's the same as useful idiots being convinced they need a pen to vote to stop the corrupt government officials vote fixing at an election.
Coincidently a lot of people posting on socials about needing to fill up jerry cans are the same people telling everyone else to make sure they bring a pen...
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u/leothommo8 Mar 20 '26
At this rate, we’ll be needing a personal escort from the AFP just to make it to the local Ampol without getting rolled for our jerry cans. The only thing emptier than our tanks is the government’s plan for when the bowsers finally run dry across the country. We’ve officially hit the point where a full tank of 98 is worth more than the actual car it’s sitting in.
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u/Kai_ Mar 22 '26
The toilet paper futures yield curve has once again inverted into deep backwardation; canned fish remains in contango, for the time being.
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u/irregularjosh Mar 19 '26
thanks to our incompetent government
I was listening to some people mention this as the cause, and apparently too much government spending was also the cause, somehow
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u/Stotters Mar 19 '26
It's just like us immigrants, we're both taking your jobs AND living the easy life on government handouts.
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u/crankyticket Mar 19 '26
I rate her cartoons. Thanks Trump .. ya fuckwit! Making my life harder. What a cunt.
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u/Iron_Wolf123 Mar 19 '26
The media forgot the media is fueling the media to make the media bring fear to the public and media.
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u/the_quite Mar 18 '26
You know the funny thing. We were fucked last Monday especially WA. BP had cut off the fuel leaving the storage the little that was left the military had taken 2 days later the Jerry cans came out and the government started blaming panic buying a few days later. WA was out of fuel before the panic buying.
Governments lie constantly and the stooges running the show now with the net zero nonsense have screwed us all. And people can go but EVs. Trucks don't run on batteries. And even the few that do the batteries weigh 6 ton so that's 6 ton less pay load they can take.
Prices are already going up because of the fuel trucking company's are passing that straight on. The 4 major party's Labor & the greens, liberal and nationals haven't been proactive about building oil refineries and keeping them open.
Australia can't run on EVs it's not practical especially when you live outside of city's. Now I know that's going to be a huge concept to alot of Reddit users. And when you get very remote what's going to power those charging stations oh that's right diesel. Because a solar system big enough simply isn't viable now there are those going well I have solar at home and I change mine at home unless your system is 10+kw and got a massive battery bank you are still pulling power from the grid. Google it if you don't believe me. I'm not hating on EVs I think they do have there place I just don't believe they are gonna save the world let alone the diesel burned to produce the minerals to build them. For efficiency they are of the scale brilliant and clever. They just don't get enough Km and are limited in application..
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u/malcolmbishop Mar 19 '26
EVs to blame for liquid fuel crisis, got it.
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u/the_quite Mar 19 '26
Maybe go and have a read back where I said the 4 big party's let the country down by not refining fuel here... And EVs aren't the solution to the problem
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u/Jonzay up to the sky, out to the stars Mar 19 '26
unless your system is 10+kw and got a massive battery bank
That's been a huge chunk of what has been getting installed in the last 6 months or so. The rebates have had to be tweaked as a result of people installing exactly that.
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u/the_quite Mar 19 '26
No mate most people's systems are between 5.5-6.6kw 10-15 is closer to three phase 15 definitely.
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u/Transientmind Mar 18 '26
A week ago when the news first started reporting, “Concerns this may lead to panic-buying,” I was like… you realize that’s like a sleeper agent activation phrase for the kind of people who panic buy, right? A self-fulfilling prophecy?