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How long before fuel rationing?

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Bettercallsalli · 31/03/2026 15:12

A lot of talk of possible fuel rationing here if this conflict continues.
Will Airlines be able to cope? It does seem inevitable now.

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PuttingOutFirewithGasoline · 08/04/2026 13:26

@FernandoSor petrol yes not diesel

PandoraSocks · 08/04/2026 13:32

I suppose we should be thankful that TACO. But it would be better if he didn't start things that he then has to CO of.

changenameagain555 · 08/04/2026 20:54

DrySherry · 02/04/2026 08:07

We decided yesterday to replace my partners diesel car with an electric. We've already had enough of this after the last set of fuel problems - and have the feeling this will get considerably worse. I have been driving electric for a year and just can't believe how cheap they are to run (charging from home).
Used ev shopping today, hopefully can trade in his car without too much of a hit.

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enjoy it whilst it lasts! I can’t imagine they will be cheap to run for ever. Eventually EVs will have to pay the equivalent of fuel duty I imagine. Probably by more extensive pay per mile than currently proposed.

Hereforthecommentz · 08/04/2026 21:28

TeethAreImportant · 31/03/2026 17:28

What's left in the North Sea isn't 'ours'. The licenses were sold off by the Thatcher gov in the 1980s. So if it were ever extracted, it would be sold on the open energy market by the company that owns the field and benefit the UK not one jot. We wouldn't get first dibs, or a preferential deal, or any kind of discount. So I really have no idea why people think this would help. What would help is a government helping people to insulate their homes, making housebuilders build more efficient houses and investing in renewables.

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Of course it would help! Less reliance on oil coming from unstable areas.

randomchap · 08/04/2026 22:43

Hereforthecommentz · 08/04/2026 21:28

Of course it would help! Less reliance on oil coming from unstable areas.

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It would be sold on the open market. There's not enough of it to influence that market.

It won't change a thing

ItsNotOrwell · 09/04/2026 03:05

randomchap · 08/04/2026 08:10

https://www.aussieoilwatch.com/

Again, no it doesn't. Where are you getting your info from?

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That dashboard quotes 29 days left of diesel in Australia - a little more than 2 weeks, yes, but not much. Obviously, too, some industries are much heavier users of diesel, and regional areas are also heavier users of diesel but they are not receiving enough to keep them going. It isn’t like that ‘29 days left of diesel’ is spread equally throughout the country. Just in NSW today, 121 petrol stations have run dry of diesel.

randomchap · 09/04/2026 06:54

ItsNotOrwell · 09/04/2026 03:05

That dashboard quotes 29 days left of diesel in Australia - a little more than 2 weeks, yes, but not much. Obviously, too, some industries are much heavier users of diesel, and regional areas are also heavier users of diesel but they are not receiving enough to keep them going. It isn’t like that ‘29 days left of diesel’ is spread equally throughout the country. Just in NSW today, 121 petrol stations have run dry of diesel.

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But where did you get your less than 2 weeks info from? Could the pumps running dry be caused by panic buying? Panic buying that's spurred on by unreliable and hyperbolic social media posts?

3luckystars · 09/04/2026 15:55

There’s plenty where I am anyway. It’s a bit more expensive but no queues no issues.

Loulou4022 · 09/04/2026 16:14

I filled my car up yesterday and hubs’ up today at 2 different fuel stations and there was no queues and no pumps closed!
We both needed fuel I wasn’t filling them up for the sake of it!

3luckystars · 09/04/2026 22:09

I take it all back, it’s all gone a bit serious all of a sudden!

BloominNora · 14/04/2026 17:11

FernandoSor · 08/04/2026 08:37

We don’t have any shortage of diesel in the UK because, as has been explained MULTIPLE TIMES on this thread, we do not get our oil from the Gulf. We extract a lot our selves, and what we don’t produce locally we buy from Norway, the US, Nigeria and Libya.

Unlike New Zealand and Australia we are not dependent on Gulf oil.

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But what the people who have explained that have failed to acknowledge MULTIPLE TIMES is that the disruption to the supply chain will still affect us, because countries that do buy their oil from the Gulf and whose supply is disrupted will look to other markets, such as Norway, US, Nigeria and Libya, thus reducing the amount that is available for the UK to buy.

We don't have shortage now, but that doesn't mean we won't in the very near future.

It's like saying, the great Aldi toilet roll shortage won't affect me because I shop at Sainsbury's without considering that those who usually shop at Aldi, will go to Sainsbury's to buy it instead 🙄

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