AI will tell you Australia’s fuel reserve is in the US. But is that even true?

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 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast 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. Last week, the president of the Victorian Farmers Federation, Brett Hosking, said Australia’s “strategic fuel reserve” was stored in the US. And he is not the only one. Where is our fuel reserve? The government has said it is releasing some of it on to the market – when is this going to happen and how will it work? For less than two years, a relatively small amount of Australian-owned oil was stored in the US’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This is the world’s largest emergency stockpile of crude oil, stored in underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas. The arrangement was orchestrated by the former Coalition government. In Mar