Lord Charlton is on the hustings again today, and wouldn’t you know it, rather than doing the work of securing global fuel supplies, he’s busy blame-shifting the imminent Australian catastrophe on…you.
“I think the government acted quickly. We acted quickly, upon coming to government four years ago when Chris Bowen made the decision to locate our reserves in Australia rather than offshore,” Dr Charlton said.
“It is a massive problem for those consumers who rely on diesel, who rely on petrol. What we’ve seen is in some localised areas, really big spikes in demand, and the government is working hard with the fuel networks and distribution networks to make sure that we address those.”
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