Energy Minister Chris Bowen has foreshadowed disruptions to fuel supply due to the Middle East conflict, revealing that six out of about 80 monthly fuel tanker deliveries to Australia in the next month have been cancelled or deferred.
However, he stressed the government was not currently planning to invoke emergency powers to ration fuel as prices surge and some petrol stations run dry because of Iran’s threat to supplies transiting the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
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