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Seven-Day Deadline in Aussie Supply Crisis
Fuel rationing limits sales to about one week's supply to ensure essential services like SES and the Post Office continue operations, preventing panic buying, local owners said.
- Two petrol stations in the New England region have begun rationing diesel and petrol, with Nundle Fuel & Cafe and Woolomin General Store each estimating about a week's supply left.
- Janelle Brown, of Nundle Fuel & Cafe, said rationing is intended to stop panic buying and prioritise fuel for the SES group, Forestry Commission and Post Office after missing a usual Friday delivery and receiving some supply on Saturday.
- Shane Douglas said they run a limit of '20 odd litres- we're not really strict on', with Transwest delivering weekly and providing emergency fuel on Saturday, which Brown noted 'They didn't have to give us the fuel, on Saturday, at the start of the crisis'.
- Independent Food Distribution Authority chief executive Richard Forbes warned the fuel crisis could affect farmers and food distributors within a week and push up grocery and electricity prices.
- Panic buying has swept parts of the country, with residents filling jerry cans and farmers topping up storage tanks, while Forbes cautioned that the conflict in the Middle East and Iran make prices unpredictable.
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