00:02New West Foods supplies bulk ingredients to around 1,500 WA businesses and service providers from hospitals and aged care
00:11to fast food restaurants.
00:1398% of our produce gets delivered so running that fleet is critical to us. We have to consider the
00:20cost of that delivery.
00:22Damon Vinoutsis has 30 diesel trucks guzzling around 3,000 litres per week. He says if prices keep climbing, his
00:30business may be forced to pass on the cost.
00:33If this continues, we would probably have to restrict deliveries and lessen the amount of deliveries we would do per
00:42week and per area or consider a charge or levy to customers, both something we don't want to do.
00:49Food industry groups are urging government to use this fuel crisis as a catalyst to expedite a national food security
00:56strategy to future-proof against supply shocks.
01:00The Australian food sector warned the government four years ago on the need for a national food security strategy and
01:09here we are in 2026 and nothing.
01:12As the government taps its fuel reserves, Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen says supplies are arriving as planned.
01:19Our refineries continue to work and indeed the supply of petrol has been secure and has been just as expected.
01:27But what we have seen is real and unacceptable shortages in rural and regional areas in particular.
01:33Prices are out of control aren't they? How much higher are they going to go?
01:35Now I'm close to retirement but if it keeps going this way I'll have to keep working just to pay
01:40for fuel.
01:40What we now need to make sure is where there has been gouging that the ACCC does act.
01:46The National Consumer Watchdog says service stations found price gouging face massive fines.
01:52Now you've just been open for such a concern.
01:53As the noise is prced out of this.
01:53Let's go.
01:53How much higher is the sound of this?
01:53How much higher is it that?
01:53What in the case?
01:53How much higher is it?
01:54How much higher is it that is?
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