«Is the 50% Reduction in Fuel Excise Just a Band-aid on a Bullet Hole?»
In this video, Scott Kuru, asks the question and clarifies the current situation ~ price is important BUT Supply will be the Long Term Fuel Security Problem!
Featured today is this 15 minute video by Scott Kuru.
I find his presentation of value, you may find it useful too.
Source: scott kuru ~ something has gone seriously wrong etc…
As Scott asks these questions;
«Australia’s fuel story is changing every couple of hours and every time you look up, there is a new update, a new denial, or another contradiction.
I wish I was exaggerating, but when I was doing my research for this video, I was left with a million unanswered questions.
Are we drifting towards rationing because supply is tight?
Are we watching a COVID style energy panic repeat itself?
Are shipments still under pressure?
Are farmers and fishers right to be sounding the alarm that diesel shortages could stop food from being planted and harvested.
And now that the government has finally halved the fuel excise, are we looking at genuine relief or is it just a band-aid on a bullet hole because price is the only thing they can control while supply is completely out of their hands?»
Source: scott kuru ~ fuel nightmare continues
According to the Crude Oil Peak website, Australia does not import oil directly from the Middle East.
Diesel fuel imports are as follows;
Note: the massive increase in diesel ~ from 200 megalitres per month ~ up to
2,400 megalitres per month in 2023.
Note: 200 megalitres per month is now missing as China has suspended Jet A1 fuel exports to Australia!
But it gets even worse, according to this Guardian report of 30 MAR 2026;
«South Korean airlines have asked their government to help redirect jet fuel exports to the domestic market, threatening half of Australia’s imports of the critical fuel after Chinese authorities earlier this month flagged export restrictions.
Amid deepening concerns across Asia about the impact of the escalating Middle East conflict, an official at South Korea’s transport ministry told the Guardian that “some domestic carriers” had asked authorities to redirect export-bound jet fuel back to the local market due to supply concerns.»
Recall ~ Australian Critical Infrastructure Resilience Report December 2025
Despite Middle East Tensions turning kinetic between Israel & the USA Versus Iran in June 2025, our Dept of Home Affairs rated the Fuel Security Risk as below;
An entire Australian Dept of Home Affairs produced this report ~ did they ever consider what lies beyond the Brindabella Ranges? An entire continent, filled with agriculture, farming, graziers, wheat, sheep and forestry exports.
What about fertilizer & mining, commercial fishing & tourism and everything else that needs to be moved from A to B?
What about Imports ~ did they forget about the global container trade too?
Could this paragraph below have been the single, laser-focussed guiding principle in compiling this report ~ a Green Ideology that we will all have to pay for now?
Source: 2025 critical infrastructure annual risk review ~ p.5
Australian Professor Ian Plimer, twice winner of Australia's highest scientific honour, the Eureka Prize, provides a mountain of evidence in this 2021 book.
It has never been shown that human emissions of the gas of life drive global warming. Large bodies of science that don't fit the narrative have been ignored by IPCC, COP and self-interested scientists paid by taxpayers.
A huge subsidised industry of intermittent unreliable wind and solar electricity has been created based on unsubstantiated science. The same hucksters now want subsidised hydrogen, costly inefficient EVs, subsidised mega-batteries and other horribly expensive tried and failed schemes to impoverish people, create unemployment, transfer wealth and enrich China.
Germany, Texas, California and the UK had a glimpse of Net Zero with blackouts, astronomically high electricity costs and hundreds of deaths. We once had reliable cheap electricity and now that governments have gone green, we are heading for hard economic times.
Australia’s Fuel Security Plan is a Train Wreck!
Unlike a classic train wreck, every Australian is a passenger and we are all heading into a fuel crisis abyss. But here is the Good News!