Six weeks of jet fuel left

[Nellietheolophant]

It has been officially announced and i really don't think it's scaremongering anymore.
Both Lufhthansa and KLM are cancelling flights now.

Seriously look at todays headlines.

Lufthansa had a pilot strike this week. Different issue.

Well, it's almost as if this US administration wasn't acting in the best interest of the US or the West at large...

crazystar
Mad THATS when the west takes note

So true, we are such assholes. I honestly mean that

Now we just need Iran to hack the US government and release the Epstein files to us unredacted.

That would lay bare exactly what our ruling class has been up to, and probably finish us off.

But for anyone worried about oil - the UK government won’t care until the issues hit London. They didn’t last time, they won’t this time.

entertainingly, the anti EV Trump has done more to encourage EV uptake and switching to renewables than anyone else…

It's interesting that people being bombed doesn't matter but missing summer holidays does.

For info a lot of medication/pharma is carried as freight in the hold of passenger flights, in addition to the passenger bags and whatever...Carrying relatively small amounts of drugs that must be moved quickly is a bigmoney earner for some airllnes.and I've seen 5-10 tonnes loaded on what some would regard as holiday flights.

As a result blanket grounding of what the public might see as simply passenger/holiday flights, especially Long Haul.oned, could certainly cause problems for the pharma supply chain...

I stand corrected although tbf t had to google news reports on Lufthansa, couldn’t see anything on the BBC site.

We pay the highest amount of standing charge in Europe and our gas/electricity is among the most expensive. Why? Because of the drive to net zero. How come we are paying so much per household?

Yes move to cheaper less volatile energy provision. But not at the cost of the uk economy.

We actually need to do a complete reset of the economy.

Farming, yes we will never be self sufficient, but importing so much from abroad that could be produced here.

Transport. HS2 was scrapped but where is that money being spent, my town is being reconnected to the rail network. 4 miles of track and one station. Total cost £51 million. For one train per hour. An improved road network would produced greater results.

House insulation has been trumped by successive governments. The torys had 2 goes at a green scheme. Thousands of pounds to save £50 a year.

Why is it only now that every new house has to come with a heat pump/solar.

We the British tax payer have been done over for years. Scrap net zero push the bloody power companies to reinvest and drop bills for households

Airports were basically closed for 1.5 years during covid. Everyone survived just fine without frivolous holidays and flights.

They also managed to move pharmaceuticals just fine during that time. Clearly you don't need passenger flights to transport medicine.

@notimagain this is what we should be more concerned about. The pharma industry supplies.
I personally couldn't give a damn about a summer holiday when medical supplies may be seriously affected.

@User086758 i do hope you or your family do not rely.on medications!
Look at the bigger picture...

This pretty much sums it up!

where to get a true picture of fuel timelines ? not 'sun reader' horror features

Ah you're trying to sound smart without actually having real knowledge on global supply chains.

Not Iran to blame, is trump

It's just been announced in the natiinal.news...HTH.

I think you'll find that everything was flowing perfectly well with the supply chain until Donald Trump got involved.

Blaming Iran for the murderous shit-show Trump has unleashed is like blaming me because it's raining.

HTH

Couldn’t care less about our holiday if it was cancelled but daughter will be sad her school trip to Spain may not happen in June 😢. Charity funded state school trip so a lot of the kids first time on a plane.

Actually UK airports weren't basically closed, certainly not for 1.5 years..for example I flew out of the UK as a passenger late March 20 and came back to the UK later that Summer by air, albeit subject to the arrival Covid testing...

In reality throughout Covid many airlines (including the one I worked at) kept at least some services going to allow essential workers to travel but also to get freight in or out of the UK as belly cargo.

If airports really had shut for 1.5 years the UK would have been deep in the brown stuff.....

This time around is different and any potential aviation fuel shortage really has got the potential to hurt, so you'd better hope there is some plan in place to keep at least some flights running.

The "six weeks" is always used in quotation marks and comes from a remark by Faith Birol from the International Energy Agency. The full quote was Europe has "maybe six weeks or so [of] jet fuel left". The keyword being "MAYBE" which is left out of all news reports.

Considering his job, of course he's invested in warning people about potential jet jet fuel shortage. There is zero factual evidence that there is actually 6 weeks of fuel left. And even if some flights are affected, there is also zero evidence that this will affect other supplies like medicine. Faith Birol didn't say "You will never get vital medications because jet fuel will definitely run out in 6 weeks"

So everyone calm the fuck down and maybe learn to read news articles properly, instead of falling for clickbait headlines. Media literacy is zero on MN.

"The Dutch airline said: “This concerns a limited number of flights within Europe that, due to rising kerosene costs, are currently no longer financially viable to operate. There is no kerosene shortage."

Sounds like they have just realigned their business model based on pricing vs. market appetite, actually. I guess they've looked at data and said we can't offer that route at a price ppl would be willing to pay. Rather than there being a shortage entirely.

ETA - source: The Guardian article

@NeelaBlue

You can know and feel both things simultaneously believe it or not. 😮