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What Russia's war means for Australian petrol prices: $2.10 a litre

Written by Vlado Vivoda, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Studies (Australian War College), Deakin University

Petrol prices Wednesday morning.Ellen Duffy/The Conversation, CC BY

Global crude oil prices have already reached their highest levels since 2014 in response to Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine.

With Russia being the world’s second-largest exporter of crude oil and refined petrol, as well the world’s largest exporter of...

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