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Taylor tells government to direct fuel to empty petrol stations
Angus Taylor says the government needs to pick up the phone and get fuel companies to move fuel to areas facing shortages. It’s a similar direction to the Coalition’s line of questioning in question time yesterday afternoon.
The fuel stocks are up. They’ve [the government] told us that. They said that yesterday, fuel stock levels are up. So move it to the sold out servos. There’s over 500 servos that haven’t got fuel. The fuel stocks are there, pick up the phone and tell the companies to move the stocks. It’s simple.
The longer-term solution, clearly, is we’re going to see higher prices over the coming weeks and potentially many months, and we’ve got to keep the fuel moving … We have a budget coming up, and we need to see downward pressure on inflation.
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