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0 pointsBLKNSLVR1d ago0 comments

The main thing that worries me about the use of fossil fuels is the heavy machinery where said heavy machinery is used for farming food.

There are service stations in rural Victoria that have run out of petrol[0]. If farmers can't run their machines, I don't want to continue that train of thought. I would hope that governments would obviously prioritise food production and distribution over, kinda everything else, but logic and government seem to have a strange relationship.

[0]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/victorian-petrol-stat...

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decimalenough1d ago

They're run out of fuel for the same reason we ran out of TP during COVID: hoarding, not lack of supply.

BLKNSLVROP1d ago

That is true.

What is also true is that media has been saying both:

- Don't panic buy, we've got plenty

- We'll start running out in mid-April.

So, unlike TP during COVID, which can be manufactured locally, there is a dark cloud on the horizon and precious little to encourage any optimism regarding the Strait of Hormuz.

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