<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>NSW Premier Chris Minns insists there is enough petrol for the people of the state, but concedes it is not getting to where it needs to go.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The premier and Energy Minister Penny Sharpe met with farmers, truckers and tradies in Sydney today to reassure them they were doing their best to handle the shortage of petrol that is beginning to hit rural parts of NSW.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>About 32 of the state's 3000 petrol stations are running low or running out of petrol, especially in outback regions.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/iran-israel-us-war-trump-suggests-he-may-delay-china-trip/e2e013f7-990a-40bc-aedf-8ed4049ced22" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Trump suggests he may delay China trip as he pressures Beijing for help</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the far west town of Tilpa, there is no diesel left, having an impact in more ways than one on locals.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If it stays the way it is, or if fuel goes to $3 a litre, we won't be getting much tourism at all," local publican Stacy Henman said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We're gonna run out of everything."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-petrol-crisis-premier-chris-minns-meets-with-industry-leaders/3a05a1bc-4d73-4e81-aeec-3e49e11218c0" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Sharpe admitted it was becoming a problem.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>UPDATE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/lidcombe-shooting-man-gunned-down-in-early-morning-attack/12e37e53-717d-4703-bb88-cc33ac01d257" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Man arrested after underworld figure killed in targeted shooting in Sydney's west</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We don't have a supply problem yet, what we do have is a distribution problem," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It is an issue that is being compounded by the closure of the Great Western Highway at the base of the Blue Mountains, cutting off a crucial supply link to the Central West.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It is slowing down some of the major suppliers and some of the bigger tankers," Transport Secretary Josh Murray said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/australias-most-famous-coin-1930-penny-returns-to-auction/e3b44d32-f5a8-4f59-9a61-f8c55ce78ff5" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Two of this ultra-rare Aussie coin go up for auction</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Peter Khoury from the NRMA said people panic buying petrol and storing it in jerry cans was also adding to the problem.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bunnings stores across the state have sold out of many of their jerry cans in the last week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"For every litre of diesel that's sitting in someone's garage in a jerry can from Bunnings, that's one litre of diesel that's not in the supply chain," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That's [fuel], truckies need to use and that farmers need to use."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></strong></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 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