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Australian Notes

Running on empty

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

If anything happened to disrupt our imports of oil and fuel, such as a blockade of shipping through the South China Sea or the Strait of Hormuz, our reserves would be exhausted within three weeks. We would have run out of petrol, diesel and jet fuel.  All road transport and all private cars would grind to a halt.

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