Suddenly, Australia has an everything crisis
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Wasn’t it only last week that we had enough fuel?
Minister for Lying Chris Bowen confessed in parliament yesterday that the number of petrol stations without fuel had skyrocketed in just a single day, with 289 locations throughout NSW currently lacking at least one type of fuel, up from 37 on Monday.
In Queensland, there were almost 55 more stations without diesel and 35 without regular unleaded petrol, compared to 47 and 32 stations on Monday, respectively.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.