There were experts in the newspaper saying rationing would be inevitable." In other words, those who had warned, during the worst of the Strait of Hormuz crisis, that Australia faced rationing and shortages were merely playing politics."Two things the Minister stated in his update are true and worth saying plainly And the government did not invoke the formal rationing powers of the Liquid Fuel Emergency Act."Credit where it is due: that is a better outcome than many of us feared in March."The government is right that it avoided formal national rationing