Covid-level crisis? How Australia ignored fuel warnings

<p>John Blackburn spent four decades in the Air Force, rising to Deputy Chief.</p> <p>For more than decade he&rsquo;s been warning that Australia is too reliant on imported fuel, too light on reserves, and too exposed if a global crisis &ndash; just like this one &ndash; disrupts supply.</p> <p>Now, as more than hundred servos around the country run dry and a Trump ultimatum looms, threatening to make the fuel crisis worse, Australia is paying the price for our lack of preparedness.</p> …