1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: And Barry so Per, senior political correspondence with US. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 2: Hey, Barry, good afternoon, HEATHERN. 3 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: What did you make of Nikola and Luxen's fuel update today. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 2: Well, it was a little more subdued, wasn't it. But 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: we're essentially still being told, don't panic. We're hunky dory 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 2: at the moment when it comes to petrol. But that's 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: come from the gas Gospel or the Benzene Bible being 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: preached today. You could say, Heather, and you won't like 9 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 2: this from the stairway to Heaven and the Beehive. Yes, 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: they did the update on the beehives four year stairs, 11 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: avoiding the COVID pulpit of truth just down the corridor. 12 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: Maybe it's too close to home to be regularly preaching 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: about the flow of black gold, which they intend to 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: do twice a week, we're told. But where could the 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 2: black gold be coming from? Well, Russian crew, there's plenty 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: of it, eighty five percent of it sold to China 17 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: and India. Turkey's also a major importer of Russian oil, 18 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: where says, temporarily you'll be aware, Heather waved American restrictions 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: allowing permitted countries to buy and receive cargoes already at sea. 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: That is up until April the eleventh, but who knows 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 2: how long that'll go for. So New Zealand has sanctions 22 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 2: on the product. But what if the refineries we buy 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: from in Singapore and South Korea start drying up and 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: they turn to Russia. Well that's an issue which has 25 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 2: been thought about by the Prime Minister. Chris Luckson says 26 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 2: it's not a problem now but could be something they'll 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: have to consider further down. 28 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: The track out of our Singaporean and South Korean refineries, 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 3: and we've had conversations with them. They don't have an 30 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 3: issue with respect to the supply coming in at this 31 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 3: point in time. What Nicola and I are foreshadowing as 32 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: they could in the future, and that is something that 33 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 3: we need to be starting to think about ahead of time. 34 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 3: But just for now, I just don't want to get 35 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 3: into a hypothetical about that because there's a lot of 36 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 3: other sources of where crew could come from for those refineries, 37 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 3: and ultimately that'll be their decisions cross that bridge when 38 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 3: we get there. All I'm highlighting to you is relative 39 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 3: to other countries, you should be pretty confident in our 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 3: current position that we feel very comfortable with where we 41 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 3: are on Russian sanctions, but again we have to think 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: about a world where maybe Singapore and South Korea may 43 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: not be able to get access to that crew, and 44 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 3: then that will be a differen set of conversations at 45 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: that time. 46 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: So that's pretty extraordinary, isn't it when you think about 47 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: it here that the supreme Irony and all of this 48 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 2: is Putin's war chest could be enriched to continue as 49 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 2: bombardment of the Ukraine, and a lot of people have 50 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 2: forgotten that war, and of course Trump will see it 51 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 2: at the time that it would be solved in a 52 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 2: couple of days. 53 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: Now, did you want to talk about Donald Trump? Did you? 54 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: Oh? You're like, I knew I did this for you? 55 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 2: Heaven that listening as I often do to a great 56 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 2: British podcast called news Agents. I was listening to it 57 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: today whilst I was out pushing the baby. They posed 58 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 2: the question has Trump lost it? Certainly his re election 59 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 2: by the American electorate last year has seen this country 60 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 2: losing it money. That is with the first with tariffs 61 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: and then the American Israel war with Iran, and that's 62 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: impacted our economy. As we've been talking about with petrol prices. 63 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: They played this segment by CNN from Trump's press conference. 64 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 2: You may remember it just a couple of days ago 65 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: at the Trump Kennedy Center with the board of that 66 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 2: center sitting alongside Trump. The edited piece leaves you wondering 67 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: just who is deranged? The statements he made were within minutes, 68 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: if not less than that of each other. Here's his 69 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 2: thought process. 70 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 4: If we ever needed help, they won't be there for us. 71 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,839 Speaker 4: I've just known that for a long period of time. 72 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 4: We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already. 73 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 4: This is in need. Need would be one of the 74 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 4: big boys. If we need their main votes, or if 75 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 4: we need anything, any piece of apparatus that they may 76 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 4: have because of a situation that they have, they should 77 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 4: be jumping to help us. We want them to come 78 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 4: and help us with the straight My attitude is we 79 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 4: don't need anybody. We're the strongest nation in the world. 80 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 4: We have the strongest military by far in the world. 81 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 4: We don't need them. 82 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 2: So what did you think of that? 83 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 4: Here? 84 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, look, don't you have to ask the question? Who 85 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 2: is deranged? In fact? Is Trump's been played by Nitt 86 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 2: Finish played by Putin and now he's on his own, 87 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: playing by himself while the world waits for the next 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 2: toy to be thrown out of his play paper. 89 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: Why I don't get as angry at Trump as as 90 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: frustrated is that I am used to dealing with a 91 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: four year old who sees all the things when they 92 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 1: actually just mean the one thing. So I think I've 93 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: got really good at deciphering what Donald Trump is saying 94 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: in his tantrums. 95 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 2: So a lot of people don't remember NATO Daddy just yeah, 96 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 2: just well, he's got we term nippies. 97 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: It seems I have no idea what you're saying right now. Okay, no, 98 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: we'll just leave it at that. Very you sound weird, 99 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: Very sole, senior political correspondent Out He goes. 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 4: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive. 101 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: Listen live to news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, 102 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.