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Hundreds of service stations across Australia have run empty, fuel prices are elevated and oil shipments have been cancelled.<\/p>\n
Australia is battling a fuel crisis as Iran\u2019s closure of the strait of Hormuz continues to bite. The federal government has released<\/a> fuel reserves, cut fuel excise taxes and rolled out a national fuel security plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n While we know there have been outages and price increases, it can be difficult to get a full picture of what is happening \u2013 this is partly due to the thousands of independent businesses and different governments involved. We have brought together the latest data on prices, outages and oil tanker deliveries.<\/p>\n Looking at the averages for petrol and diesel across Australia, we can see how much prices have risen since the US and Israel\u2019s war on Iran began in late February<\/a>.<\/p>\n