TikTok star says Aussies should escape fuel crisis and move to Indonesian island where fuel is $1 per litre
An Australian man is urging people to move to an island where petrol prices are more than half the eye-watering sums Aussies are forking out at the bowser.
One TikTok star is urging his fellow Aussies to move to an island where petrol prices are only $1 per litre, as the fuel crisis worsens across Australia.
Yousof Dib, a social media personality with hundreds of thousands of followers, posted a video comparing Aussie fuel prices with Indonesian ones.
Speaking from a Lombok petrol station, Mr Dib said he would compare the prices with Sydney ones to see “what all the fuss is about”.
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“Not sure why we’re paying $3 a litre in Australia and any other country,” he said.
“So we encourage all the Muslims worldwide to come and move to Lombok. Cheap fuel, great food.
“I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Instead of corona, they’re calling it the ‘new car owner’ virus.”
Social media users were quick to chime in with bigger picture concerns.
“Compare to minimum wage there mate, war or no war they are suffering to the petrol prices,” one user commented.
The minimum wage varies across Indonesia’s provinces, with DKI Jakarta’s sum being double than most other regions.
Lombok is part of West Nusa Tenggara, where the minimum was is 2,673,861 Rupiah, which is $AU 225.56. Proportionally, this makes petrol very unaffordable for the average worker.
Price hikes and shortages
Australians are facing increased cost-of-living pressures as the Iran conflict continues, with average fuel prices increasing by nearly 60 cents between February and March, according to FuelWatch.
On top of this, fuel shortages are spreading across the country, impacting regional areas significantly.
On Thursday, Energy Minister Chris Bowen provided an update on the number of service stations with shortages across Australia.
- NSW – 178 stations with no diesel, 48 with no stock
- Queensland – 55 stations with no diesel, 33 with no unleaded petrol
- Victoria – 45 stations with no diesel, 72 with no unleaded petrol
- South Australia – nine stations with no diesel, 10 with no unleaded petrol
- Western Australia – 40 stations with no diesel, 14 with no unleaded petrol
- Tasmania – five stations with no diesel, nine with some sort of outage
- NT – No outages attributable to a lack of fuel supply but the cyclone is affecting some areas
- ACT – two stations with no diesel, one with no unleaded petrol
