Claire Stephens

the more media coverage of this issue, the more we are told not to panic, the more we're told 150 petrol stations in this state are out of petrol, the more we are told that, the more... And it's not to blame anyone.

It's just a normal human instinct to then panic by.

Like, that's what we're going to do.

So I find it really interesting that, yeah, at the moment it's a...

demand issue rather than a supply issue.

But the thing that I think people have attached onto in terms of supply is that, so Australia apparently has all the, like, reserves.

And the idea of reserves is basically in an emergency that we have petrol reserves so that basically that is not the fuel that you'd be using to fill up your car.

It'd be for emergency services.

Yeah, for diesel, for kind of top line functioning of the country.

And because some regional areas did run out of diesel, we went into those reserves.

That doesn't sound good.

And that has panicked people.

And the expert on the quickie this morning very much said, like, the government will top that up.

Like, that is not something for us to freak out about.

But hearing that, I think, made a lot of people panic.

The thing I find interesting is that the experts are telling us it's a...

demand crisis, not a supply crisis.

And in terms of the petrol stations that have been kind of most affected, it is those in rural and regional areas.

And so it completely makes sense that they're the populations most affected.

But what I've been thinking about is