Are we heading for a fuel shortage?

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).

Whatever about fuel, i’ll start panicking when there’s no bog roll left.

Imagine we had potential as a country to supply our own oil and gas.

Wouldnt that be something ay!??

We'll never supply our own oil and our gas will only ever meet a small portion of energy demand.

Well we definitely won’t know now thanks to the greens.

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

Picked up some unleaded tonight €1.89, I remember during the depths of Covid paying €1.12, I still have the receipt 😁

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).

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.

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.

Good news lads. I've just placed some buy orders on oil. That should herald a certain collapse in oil commodities.

I’m sorry but I have to disagree here. Leaving sleepy Eamon alone for a minute, where is the infrastructure to accommodate the million EV’s the government want on the roads by 2030?

Maybe the forecourts are jumping on the gravy train to a degree but they have no control of the price of a barrel of Brent Crude. That price is rising rapidly and for me ANY move by the troika government here to reduce the pump price must happen. My local Centra has upped the price of 2 litres of milk from €1.49 to €2.00 a litre overnight. That’s a 33% increase. That’s only an example.

The same greens are party to BBC a government who stopped peat production and now we import the product from Germany.

Now that is bizarre.

yea, lets keep fcuking up the planet for your kids and grandkids!

Lady on the radio the other day was saying she'd have to walk a half hour to work instead of her 10 minute car journey. Oh the humanity.

Do you think our kids and grandkids are too thick to be able to deal with the planet they live on ?

This is what annoys the feck out of me about the climate debate.

This notion that the current generation know what's best for future generations, that the current climate is what climate should be, and the assumption that future generations will for some bizarre reason not be able to handle or adapt to the environment or climate they live in.

Has she a gofundme on the go? I'd like to help if possible!!

Waves of hysteria and panic seem to be de rigour now unfortunately. Everyone remembers the nonsense with bog roll two years ago. But with fuel hitting €2.00 per litre it it’ll soften a lot of coughs- driving will become more limited to essential only.