Are we heading for a fuel shortage?

Firstly calm down, you're way too hot, just chill as emotions don't let you think logically and read properly.

Secondly, you're comparing completely different products. Car price don't change daily. Crude oil does, similar to gold, let say. When there's a little change in prices, company is ok to absorb price increase suffering profit or covers the loss by not adjusting price in case of a price decrease. However, when price has jumped by 20 dollar for a barrel in just a week time while this same happened only last year but in 6 months time, we are now in a very different game.

Supply/demand has been disrupted by covid which made an impact to prices. Now, war in Ukraine brought uncertainty and panic to the stock markets which lead to drastic price increases.

You may see some car manufacturers increasing prices as they move their factories from Ukraine, e.g., BMW. But car industry is different and price structure is very different. Car parts' prices currently don't change daily. Oil price does.

Here you go, that's the basics from the oil industry. You're welcome.

I think we are into a time that’ll be “essential journeys” only. Trips out the country or to the beach will have to be rationed for many of us. Price of petrol/diesel is in insane territory now. And it wasn’t exactly cheap going into this. I’ll be walking more for sure or getting on public transport.

While the car is essential for most of us, I can see sales levels of fuel dropping at this level - elasticity of demand (?) from my college days.

Was speaking to local garage owner this morning. Trying his best to keep price as low as possible as it’s a local station. He normally gets a delivery once a week and price was low till he got his delivery on Friday then it jumped to near 1.90 ..

Now his supplier won’t let him order a full delivery to fill his tanks at current price and needs to order smaller loads 2 or 3 over the week .. this in turn will result in near daily increases. He was hoping to fill his tanks so he could keep price under the 1.90 for the week.

Fuel company told him stock is getting low because an expected delivery into Ireland is late or didn’t materialise at all so delivery are to be curtailed for a few weeks.

They don't take payment - they simply put a hold on an amount until delivery and then process the exact amount. When ordering oil it's always a Quote and not an agreed price. It's nothing new to the current situation.

It's a whole new ballgame now.

If you can get home heating oil, at any price, fill up, ration your heating and put a lock on your tanks.

Because, by next Autumn, you may get a ration of little, or not get any at all.

Those of us on mains gas supplies will be little better off, because the pipelines will be throttled, in favour of hospitals and vital industries.

You're free to continue behaving like Karens of course, but in a years time, you'll find it breathtaking that you were ever so naive, when you get 2 hours of home heating a day, 2 hours of Internet, queues for basic foods, maybe 30 miles a week of private car travel, schooling taking place outdoors to maximise the daylight, with pens and paper. Consumer services and modern conveniences drastically scaled back or gone forever. Tourism ended. Professional sport reduced to one simple competition per code, if they're lucky. Probably nightime curfews also, to cope with the upsurge in crime connected to the loss of non-essential jobs and runaway prices and scarcity.

The pandemic will look like picnic time at the petting zoo. Better get used to the idea.

I’d imagine in the above scenario lettuce seed will be impossible to find and bikes completely unavailable!

Buy wool jumpers and thermals - easy

Milford Haven in Wales as far as I know, they also ship to Galway.

Prices were going up long before Russia.

Sitting somewhere at a long table underground in Geneva or Monaco or some such place there's a bunch of politicians and billionaires watching their plans come to fruition.

"Look at all those stupid ordinary people with their silly ordinary houses, bending over backwards to their arsehole employers for a couple of quid to stay warm and keep their sh1tty cars on the road"

So what exactly is stopping me from importing 20,000L of diesel from Venezuela?