Australia does not have a government-backed stockpile, experts say, and even if we did still store oil in the US, it would not be much
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If you Google where Australia’s emergency fuel reserves are held, the search engine’s AI overview will tell you that a “significant portion” of it is stored overseas in the US.
Even though that is not true, other popular AI tools – Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT – all say we keep fuel in the US.