Loading ...The stations out of fuel are all remote ones. None of them are major companies (BP, Shell, Ampol), but smaller ‘independent’ operators who buy surplus fuel cheap on the open market and thus sell it cheap at the pump. So they undercut the majors. If a major had a site at Boulia, for example, they wouldn’t sell any fuel because they’d always be more expensive. So they aren’t there. Now that there’s a shortage, the majors have no surpluses to sell and are snapping up any cheaper fuels on the market to ensure deliveries to their own stations. Smaller distributors haven’t got the cash flow to cope with a sudden 50% increase in cost so they get left out. There is no shortage in Sydney or Brisbane or in between, despite the impossibility of buying jerry cans anymore; i.e. all the hoarding has been done.
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