When my farmer mate was telling me that things are moderately bad with the fuel, he mentioned that there used to be pools of oil at Moonee, not too far away. Farmers used to filter it put it in their trucks and tractors. He couldn’t remember why they had to stop, but we can guess. And then, an hour later, this pops up in the news feed:
https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-oil-reserve/c3952d81-23f7-4770-8eb2-bcc4d1def204
Canberra is our national capital, a swamp like place similar to Washington D.C.. Australia’s problem is that all the oil is on the NW Shelf, the Timor sea, Bass Stait and now the Taroom Trough, but all the dipsticks are in Canberra.
