Rightfully, they don't want people rushing to fill up hastily purchased jerry cans in the same way we rushed to purchase toilet paper in 2020.The government also really wants to avoid the state-by-state approach adopted during the pandemic.Of course in the background of all of this was parliament — the last sitting week until the federal budget is handed down in May.Albanese and his treasurer Jim Chalmers have repeatedly declared this will be the most "ambitious" budget to date.As my colleague Clare Armstrong wrote, the prime minister used his press club address to declare the global oil crisis only heightens the case for economic reform The ABC also revealed Treasury has been asked to model options for a new levy on gas companies.What Albanese did shut down this week was the prospect of expanding the parliament this term.Labor's been flirting with this idea for some time now, the argument being that Australia's population has substantially increased since the last time the number of seats was increased in the Hawke era.The issue was a hard pivot from the Coalition who took a brief pause in smashing the government over the fuel crisis to unite and come out against any plan to swell the parliamentary ranks.Albanese was quick to shut it down when asked during Question Time