Fuel excise. Prices are high because Government want to sting you every time you open your wallet so you can never build wealth and become independent of their system.

Go look at the Teals bitching about LNG - Japan are buying our shit and re-exporting it because they have a fleet of tankers. We now have ZERO, I repeat, ZERO Australian flagged merchant ships.

If a real Covid hit tomorrow the country would grind to a halt in a week and be MadMax within a fortnight.