Clare Stephens

What rumour?

That's exactly it.

Speaking of what Melania is distracting from, there are now fears the Middle East conflict could lead to higher food prices and even shortages.

The Guardian ran a story today about how shoppers are buying more and more canned goods like tomatoes and lentils and long-life milk to fill out meals if there ends up being a really scary supply crisis.

It's like this is for lazy girls.

This isn't for international crises.

Ballarat resident Robin Power says families in her community are starting to shop like they did during the pandemic lockdowns.

Oh, no.

She said people are worried the trucks will run out of diesel and won't be able to get goods to the shops.

So they're trying to drive less often to go to the supermarket themselves.

So they're getting staples because they last longer.

They can fill out a meal.

People are thinking, if anything does happen, at least I've got baked beans and spaghetti.

And this comes after news that the federal government is launching a multimillion dollar advertising campaign encouraging Australians to reduce car use.

Launches today, I think.

Yeah, as the global oil crisis persists.

And it's called Every Little Bit Helps.

And it asks the public to consider using their car less, but it also promotes all these tips to improve fuel efficiency, which I had no idea about, such as driving smoothly, not my strength, not my strength, and unloading excess weight.

Yeah.

Oh, but it's just scary.