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The New South Wales government has started mapping where fuel will go in the event of a critical shortage. While rationing is still not required, Chris Minns said emergency services, hospitals and utility companies will be first in line. Some retailers have already putt limits on customers to protect their supplies.

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00:01In Crescent Head on the Mid-North Coast, Unleaded's going for an eye-watering $3.21 a litre.
00:08100% in four weeks. And then they say, oh, we've got plenty of fuel, we've got three new boats
00:13coming in with plenty of fuel, but the price is not going down.
00:16It will, thanks to today's fuel excise cut, but retailers say the savings will take time to flow through to
00:22customers.
00:23Most of the service stations still have the fuel lying their tank at higher prices, so no one can sell
00:29fuel at loss.
00:31In New South Wales, 75 service stations are out of fuel altogether, while more than 240 have no diesel.
00:38This retailer's asking customers to abide by a 40 litre limit.
00:42That works because people are topping up as opposed to hoarding.
00:47While there's uncertainty about the need for future rationing, the Premier's clear about who will get priority over the diesel
00:54supply.
00:55Emergency services, New South Wales hospitals, utilities.
00:59National cabinets delivered relief for trucking companies with the heavy vehicle road user charge reduced to zero, but there was
01:05no such help for airlines.
01:08Fly Pelican runs services to places like Cobar and Narrabri and its fuel prices have more than doubled.
01:13Road services, air services, they're all important to keeping Australia going, so it should be fair across the board.
01:19If fuel shipments start drying up, working from home could be encouraged, and more of us could be asked to
01:25consider public transport.
01:27But the state government's no closer to making that any cheaper.
01:30There's no such thing as free public transport. At the end of the day, someone's paying for it.
01:35I think it's a bit harsh, especially because Tasmania and Victoria have now done it.
01:39But it's more than $100 million a month that the government wants reserved in case the economy goes off the
01:45rails.
01:46get to deliver that shipments to our shipments.
01:46Thank you so much, you can get us.
01:47At the end of the day, we don't get to travel and we want to keep our ships in charge.
01:47Not as soon as possible, we want to get, but the capital that area is that the shipments
01:47will be around to that shipments that are when we're ready to do.
01:48We want to get to travel so far from your shipments and now we're going to be there.
01:48Before you get to travel, you can get a travel.
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