FUEL CRISIS

TOW & TELL: FUEL CRISIS

Do you remember the days when fuel cost 0.69 cents per litre? By the late 1990s, however, we were all enraged by fuel that cost 0.90 cents per litre. Whatever happened to those days and those prices? I don’ t pretend to be an expert on global oil markets, but it doesn’ t require expertise beyond basic critical thinking skills to realise the caravanning lifestyle – and industries and activities well beyond – have been dealt a severe blow in recent times.

I’ m angry, and I suspect you are too. None of this was necessary, and every consequence we’ re being forced to endure was entirely foreseeable, though two corrupt political leaders in both Washington DC and Tel Aviv seem wilfully blind to both consequence and morality, provided they get the destruction and distraction they crave.

Now that I have that off my chest, how will this crisis impact caravanning in Australia? We know it’ s virtually doubled everyone’ s fuel bill overnight, but will price rises and fuel supply uncertainty affect self-drive tourism in Australia? The short answer is yes, though opinions differ to the extent and to the opportunities that exist in these crazy times …

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