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The energy minister says the government will consider “everything” to ensure Australia’s fuel resilience into the future, including greater electrification and resource extraction.

“We’ll always look at sensible proposals in relation to domestic capability,” Bowen told reporters in Canberra.

“That does include continued efforts on electrification and renewable energy, as well as sensible measures on storage and extraction,” he said.

Bowen said some had tried to turn the oil shock into a culture war, but the government was focused on improving resilience.

“But you know, that’s a medium to longer-term priority for the government. At the moment, we’re focused on ensuring we get through this uncertain international environment,” he said.

“We’re not making further announcements today, but obviously … we’ll always look at sensible things in due course to ensure our ongoing resilience.”

Bowen says the global oil shock is spurring governments around the world to embrace renewable energy.

“In all my discussions with my international colleagues in energy and climate, there isn’t one country in the world that said, ‘You know what this fuel crisis reminds us, is we need more fossil fuels’,” the climate change and energy minister said.

“That conversation is not being had anywhere around the world. In fact, countries around the world are saying this underpins and underlines the need to keep going with things like electrification and ensuring renewable energy is an important part of the mix going forward.“

He said the immediate priority was ensuring fuel supply, but noted wind and solar could not be sanctioned or impeded.

Bowen says no fuel supply ships that had been expected to arrive in Australia had failed to do so since the outbreak of the war in the Middle East.

“Any cancellations of forward orders have been replaced and more,” he told reporters in Canberra.

Bowen also gave a state-by-state breakdown of where fuel shortages remained at service stations.

“That’s 205 across the country, which is 2.6 per cent of Australia’s service stations without any diesels,” Bowen said.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen is giving an update on Australia’s fuel stockpiles, saying the nation’s diesel stores have increased by two days’ worth since his last update.

“We have 38 days worth of petrol … we have 28 days worth of jet fuel and 31 days worth of diesel, which is up two days,” Bowen told reporters in Canberra.

“As you will notice, these figures haven’t moved around all that much over the last month or so. That’s a good thing. That shows that while fuel is getting out the door at record rates across Australia, fuel is also coming in the door at Australia’s import terminals, and it’s also going out the door at Australia’s two refineries that are working full pelt to ensure that fuel supply is kept up to Australians.”

Bowen said 57 ships were on their way to Australia with various types of fuel, which was “about standard for this time of the year”.