By Catie McLeod
Publication Date: 2026-03-23 14:00:00
If you Google where Australia’s emergency fuel supplies are stored, the search engine’s AI overview will tell you that a “significant portion” of it is stored overseas in the US.
Even if that’s not true, other popular AI tools – Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT – all say we keep fuel in the US.
Last week, Victorian Farmers Federation president Brett Hosking said Australia’s “strategic fuel reserves” were stored in the US. And he’s not the only one.
Where is our fuel reserve? The government has announced that it will bring part of it to market – when will this happen and how will it work?
What happened to our fuel reserves in the US? Did we have one?
For less than two years, a relatively small amount of Australian oil was stored in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This is the world’s largest emergency reserve of crude oil, stored in underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas.
The agreement was orchestrated by the former coalition…
