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Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced that the government's lower petrol standard will be extended until September. He also announced Australia now has 46 days worth of petrol in reserve, eight days more than last week. He says 61 fuel ships are on their way.

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00:01I can tell you that today, Australia has 46 days worth of petrol on hand in our stock
00:07holdings.
00:08That's eight days more than the update last week.
00:12That is just under two billion litres of petrol.
00:16In diesel, we have 31 days worth of supply.
00:19That's the same as last week, 2.8 billion litres.
00:22And jet fuel, 30 days of supply, which is two more days than last week.
00:29Interestingly, also, these figures are more than we had on hand at the beginning of the
00:34Iran conflict, at the end of February and at the beginning of March.
00:40We had 36 days worth of petrol, so we now have 10 days more petrol than we had when this
00:45international
00:46crisis began.
00:47And it's important, as I said last week, just to remember that these stock holdings are not
00:50the entire amount of fuel in Australia, it doesn't count the fuel in people's car, it
00:54doesn't count the fuel in service stations.
00:55It's what's on hand in reserve, and it doesn't just go down, it also, of course, goes up
01:02as fuel arrives.
01:03And that's why we're able to say that we've actually seen more fuel in Australia now as
01:09a result of government and industry working so closely together than when this international
01:14conflict began.
01:15And you can expand.
01:16By dinner here again, we're trying to make that what's happening.
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