Diesel Supply Comment on Ben Fordham Live 2GB Radio

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Views reported and characterised at length in a talkback segment on rising fuel prices, with diesel approaching $3 per litre and unleaded at $2.45. The presenter attributes to me the assessment that escalating conflict in Iran could leave Australia short of fuel within three weeks, that policy attention has been directed toward renewables while Australia remains heavily dependent on liquid fuels for the next 15 to 20 years, and that a worst-case scenario would involve lengthened shipping routes, rising tanker costs passed through to consumers, and shortages concentrated in remote areas. The segment frames these comments as an accusation that the federal government has been asleep at the wheel, and sets them against the Energy Minister's position that rationing remains distant and that the opposition has dramatised the supply debate.