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Speaker 1: Okay, here's a prediction for you. Because there have been

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Speaker 1: headlines today about gas stations running out of petrol because

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Speaker 1: people have been panic buying, people will panic buy petrol

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Yesterday was discount day at Gull, so it

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Speaker 1: went a little bit crazy. Aorninghunger's goal ran out of

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Speaker 1: ninety five Goldgreville Road, Gull, Henderson, Gold Torbet, Guald Takanini

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Speaker 1: and Gold Takapuna were also out of at least one

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Speaker 1: sort of fuel. Two pumps ran dry at supermarkets and

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Speaker 1: Palmeston North as well. Here's my second prediction, there will

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Speaker 1: be talings off. Cheryl from the Bay of Plenty's going

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Speaker 1: to see some punter filling up multiple containers and she's

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Speaker 1: going to get angry about it. Now, that's not actually

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Speaker 1: a prediction, because that has what that's already happened. Cheryl

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Speaker 1: went to the goal in Fakamatama and saw a van

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Speaker 1: filling up multiple large containers, causing a twenty minute wait

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Speaker 1: for other customers. She spoke to the media and called

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Speaker 1: it unfair. Now, the thing is panic buying is obviously

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Speaker 1: not a good idea for the collective good. We've been

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Speaker 1: here with the toilet paper during COVID, haven't we. It's

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Speaker 1: not a good idea for the collective good, but it

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Speaker 1: is also a completely rational thing to do from a

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Speaker 1: selfish perspective, if you're just looking after yourself and your family,

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Speaker 1: so you should expect people to do it. And before

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Speaker 1: you tell anyone off for doing it, remember we don't

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Speaker 1: know their personal circumstances. What's made them go down to

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Speaker 1: the petrol station that day, fill up their car and

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Speaker 1: multiple containers. We don't know whether they're running essential generators

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Speaker 1: back on the farm, whether they need to be sure

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Speaker 1: that they have enough fuel for the next few days.

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Speaker 1: We also don't know, more importantly, probably how tight their

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Speaker 1: budgets are. You and I might be able to absorb

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Speaker 1: a thirty cent rise in the price of fuel, but

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Speaker 1: if they only have a few dollars left at the

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Speaker 1: end of the week and the driving in from Pocono

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Speaker 1: all the way to the city center every single day,

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Speaker 1: they might not have that much money. They might not

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Speaker 1: have the ability to absorb that much of a price rise.

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Speaker 1: They may in fact need to buy as much as

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Speaker 1: they can while it's cheap. Now, no one is to

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Speaker 1: blame for what is happening at the moment, this is

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Speaker 1: a normal human behavior, right. The media is just doing

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Speaker 1: its job by reporting on the fuel increases that people

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Speaker 1: want to read about. The government is being as careful

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Speaker 1: in its messaging as a care and even the punter

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Speaker 1: of filling up is only doing the rational thing. So

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Speaker 1: what I would say is expect it to happen as

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Speaker 1: long as we are talking about possible shortages and price rises.

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