Holly Wainwright

But the thing is, is this issue isn't just affecting Australia.

This issue is affecting the whole world.

And so you're hearing a lot of discussions about, oh, well, all the tankers that were meant to have come have come.

So we've got plenty of fuel.

Everybody should relax.

And that might be true for now, but the problem is that the supply chain will be disrupted at some point.

Because, for example, some of those countries who the oil comes to us from,

are beginning to cancel or delay orders because they want to hold onto it themselves for their own good reasons, right?

The other issue is that because the Straits of Hormuz is closed, which is the passageway for a lot of the world's oil, not all of it, but a significant portion,

Nothing can get out.

So the things that are coming to us now have already probably left the Middle East before the war started.

So right now it's kind of like, as the government keeps saying, everything's fine.

But the fact that the supply chain will be disrupted has led to an increased demand.

So a very tiny picture of this, and it's very different depending on where you live.

So say I sent Brent a text yesterday when I was reading the news and I said, can you make sure the car, keep the car full, right?

So it's not a text I would have sent three weeks ago.

I was like, keep the car full.

Now, if I'm sending that text,

Think about that stepped and repeated all over the country, all over the world by suburban families like mine or regional families like mine.

And then of course, people like farmers depend on diesel enormously.