Chris Bowen

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65 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 27 May

Chris Bowen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ What’s News · How King Charles Un-Tariffed Scotch · 1 May 2026 podcast

So the Chief Executive of BP in Australia, for example, told me when we went to see a ship that had just come in from the United States,

with fuel on it.

That's the first time we'd ever seen a BP ship from the United States in Australia.

But also Argentina is supplying us.

Algeria has been supplying us.

So we've been diversifying our supply to countries that aren't so reliant on the Straits of Honolulu.

Really, that's one of the reasons why we've got through this situation pretty well so far.

Well, inevitably, it's going to continue to play a role when it eventually, hopefully, reopens in supplying us.

But I do think, inevitably, we and the private sector will also be looking at that diversity of supply.

And, of course, one of the other things we're doing is also continuing with our strong transition to renewables because solar energy has to travel 150 million kilometres from the sun.

It does not have to travel the 150 kilometres of the Straits of Hormuz.

So if you're transitioning to more solar,

Electric transport and relying on renewables, that's also good for energy sovereignty and reliability in the medium term.

It's not the solution for the next few weeks.

by and large.

The number of EVs we have in our supply in Australia is relatively low.

We've got good EV sales, but relatively low in the stock.

But even then, those EVs are avoiding 15 million litres of fuel a week, which is then available for those consumers who are reliant on petrol and diesel.

My great pleasure.

Thanks to you and to all our listeners and viewers.

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