It's grim reading. A number of tankers full of fuel haven't arrived.
I've noticed myself that some home heating oil supplier's have removed the facility to order online, and others are limiting how much you can buy.
Serious concerns of fuel crisis in Ireland as fears grow of petrol pump queues
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/serious-concerns-fuel-crisis-ireland-26390105#ICID=Android_IrishMirrorNewsApp_AppShare
It's ALL DEPENDANT on the Ukrainian situation..... normally I'm a glass half FULL kinda guy but it doesn't look bright up ahead.....i hope I'm wrong but you have to think there'll be shortages up the road. I filled up with diesel today ( obviously I had to ring the bank first for authorisation) & I asked the lady for a drum ( 10ltrs) of ADBLUE......she said they haven't got any & are waiting on delivery....maybe not connected at all but still a bad omen
Publishing articles in tabloids about fuel shortages and petrol pump queues is a self fulfilling prophesy.
Same thing happened last year in the UK when there were a shortage of truck drivers post Brexit which impacted fuel deliveries to forecourts, in turn it made people panic go out and queue for fuel which resulted in fuel disappearing from filling stations even quicker.
These type of articles just add fuel to the fire (no pun intended).
Considering how people panic buy bread at the first hint of a shortage I can only imagine how badly Irish people would react to a fuel shortage
Well, this might be seen as fear mongering, but Whitegate ran out of unleaded for a time this morning, but rectified the situation by the afternoon.
It's a sign of things to come, especially if the tankers aren't arriving by sea.
This is what's in store when there is a fuel delivery:
Whatever about fuel, i’ll start panicking when there’s no bog roll left.
Home oil suppliers have started limiting the amount you can order to 500 litres.
Imagine we had potential as a country to supply our own oil and gas.
Wouldnt that be something ay!??
Battery cars ftw
We'll never supply our own oil and our gas will only ever meet a small portion of energy demand.
at least there's a natural limit in a sense on a rush on the pumps - you can't buy more than your fuel tank will hold, whereas with loo roll you could in theory buy as much as your house would hold.
Well we definitely won’t know now thanks to the greens.
I wouldn't exactly say that's true, some people will try anything 😁...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/men-caught-filling-bin-bag-25103984
In the last 2 weeks I've bought 800L of kero, 300L of diesel and 50L of petrol.
I've also stockpiled solid fuel for the open fire, and I have 2½ full gas cylinders for camping stove/supersur.
I've also kept both cars brimmed.
Am I crazy . Probably, but I won't be caught without.
*In before the panic buying
So I filled the disel car today
Bought 500ltr of oil this evening, have about 300 in the tank
About 80 bags of wood pellets
Shed of timber and coal for the big stove
Filled up the electric car today with solar PV
I should be ok for a while
I have a vamat so don't need to worry about the bog roll 😁
NICE..... how much for the kerosene?????? Mine would last a lot longer if Mrs Mc Carthy didn't keep putting the heating on.......ive always said she'd be more suited for a warmer climate🤣
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I bought a fill of oil in Jan for 830, 1000 ltrs....I thought that was expensive
I filled up last week 94c/l.
I bought at 4am.. by 9.30am it was €1/l
Filled up there in Ballina, Mayo and the lad on the till reckoned the cheaper stations in the locality ran out of diesel earlier today
Carbon based electrical grid ftl
Picked up some unleaded tonight €1.89, I remember during the depths of Covid paying €1.12, I still have the receipt 😁
@Beasty
I got 500L on Thursday for €550. I didn't want it delivered until Friday but my supplier said if I waited a day then it would be €670. He expects to run out of everything except green diesel today.
(He's also only been serving regular customers for the past week or so due to panic buying).
Eamon Ryan must have a horn on him that would beat a donkey out of a quarry. €2 a litre is a dream come true for those guys.
Most defiantly going to be a fuel shortage. ESB will be turning away a shipment of coal from Russia next week at moneypoint, electricity security especially with these data centres drawing untold power may also see hits. Most scary thing of all is the food shortage that will 100% come. Farmers journal reporting between Ukraine and Russia alone 29% of global wheat exports, 26% of global barley exports, 20% global maize exports, 65% of global sunflower oil exports. RUSSIA also accounts for 25% of global fertiliser exports with another 25% coming out of Europe which is dependant on Russia gas to make it. Because of a fertiliser shortage and ridiculous cost (urea €340/ton last year €940/ton now), grassland agro fertiliser ceo said urea may be in the region of 1400-1500/ton come summer. No fertiliser reduced yields hence food shortages couple this with Russia and Ukraines exports being diminished this may be catastrophic.
Absolutely hate these kind of threads and headlines - all they’re going to do is spread panic and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy then.
In that article the IRHA are quoted as being the source of concern, not a place I'd be going for my economic insights. The US and others will be releasing a lot of oil from reserves so our only concern is the absolutely inevitable price surge. OPEC+, Russia are aligned with them, are in no great rush to increase supplies. They have a small increase scheduled for this month.
Got to buy home heating oil and most companies are saying limited supply.
Threads like this will get seen by maybe 1-2% of the population, fuel companies putting on websites they have limited supply is the one to get concerned about
Even when I was filling yesterday, the garage had a queue by the time I was finished....putting in 100+ of diesel on those bloody pumps takes ages
We essentially gave away the rights to the oil and gas off our coast for exploration, people complained about how little tax Shell paid on Corrib, yet there's only been 2 gas fields that ever produced commercially. We may have a lot of oil/gas off shore but it's never been recoverable.
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