When will Australia run out of fuel?
4/20/202621 min
Until now, Australia has been relying on oil that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war began. But the last tankers to leave the Persian Gulf before the conflict are set to arrive in Australia this week.
It’s not just the domestic situation that is making hair stand on end. The entire global energy market also seems to be losing its mind.
To try and make sense of it all, Matt has enlisted the help of ABC Senior Business Correspondent Carrington Clarke. Carrington also hosts two of the ABC's newest podcasts, ABC Business Daily and Fuelcast.
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[upbeat music] G'day, Matt Bevan here. This is If You're Listening. I got a message on the weekend from a listener who said that there should've been some kind of warning before Thursday's episode on Australia's history of gas deals, making sure people had taken their blood pressure medication before listening. And judging by the flood of emails we've had since that episode aired, it seems that a lot of people feel the same way. There's real frustration that as a resource-rich country, Australia isn't faring better in this crisis. At the moment, we are still relying on oil that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before this whole crisis began. The last tankers to leave the Persian Gulf before the conflict are set to arrive in