Just heard about a diesel shortage?

I'm looking for some tallyho papers and tuning my guitar as we speak.

Why do I have a feeling that the US is headed into the same Marxist hole?

Two sides of the exact same s***** coin.

funwithfuel said:

I have to admit ignorance in what goes on down there. I only hear and read what's available, which usually means I only see the crimes and ridiculous laws passed. Is Australia slipping into the 'isms ?

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They elected a very left leaning prime minister.

Sorry, it seems we're all in the same soup.

Here is a non-political explanation, from the Horses mouth:
API | Gas Prices Explained

You know the API is an industry trade group don't you?

Folks, in order for this thread to remain open you all MUST refrain from political comments. This is a viable thread as current fuel prices are affecting us all but please keep the comments on the cause off the Board. We've had to clean things up here several times now and if it continues we'll be forced to close it permanently. I don't want to add to your frustration, so PLEASE do NOT post political comments. This policy has kept the peace here since we started and I'd like it to continue. Thanks

Local fuel supplier here told me couple days ago that the terminals are not allowing any overrides if someone exceeds their allocation. That's never happened before. Moral of the story is if he needs fuel for the station, and allocation is used up for that week, the station will sit with an empty tank until the following week.

The writing is on the wall of why and where high fuel prices are...

Must be an old map ? I haven't seen it under $6 for a month or so on the Maine/NH line.

Go to Gasbuddy.com , prices updated in real time by people on their phones. They have maps and lists of stations and a trip planner.

What is interesting is how wide the spread has gotten. It did not used to be this much difference between Ca and the civilized world before prices went crazy.

Birken Vogt said:

Go to Gasbuddy.com , prices updated in real time by people on their phones. They have maps and lists of stations and a trip planner.

What is interesting is how wide the spread has gotten. It did not used to be this much difference between Ca and the civilized world before prices went crazy.

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California “over $5.71”... yeah like $1 over!!!

It's a gasoline one but I'm so pleased to be taking a big RV next week... And through the north east. Woop. When the prices started going up I estimated 5 bucks per gallon, or 1 buck a mile. We'll see how close we get to that, though I probably won't track it since it make me mad.

OH !! Gas !
Then it's right. $4.75. Diesel $6.19.

I've been working on getting a 1999 RAV4 that's 2wd going. Gets almost 30 mpg. The poor thing inhaled a mouse nest made of the air filter !!! and I can't get the EGR code to quit coming up.....

No shortages or word of allocations in my OA. The Alaska market isn’t tied to any one particular pipeline or refinery like regions in the lower 48. It’s a more global perspective. It’s almost as easy to get a barge from Asia as from the PNW.

The funny thing is I’m seeing higher prices on the road system, in some cases, as I am in the bush. That’s because the bush fuel was purchased & delivered before the ever escalating price increases.

With a global market for diesel and high demand from countries seeking to replace Russian fuel, the free market will look for the maximum profit which can be made.

Even though some on this forum doubt electric vehicles there’s no disputing that the more electric vehicles there are, especially where they work best in cities, the more diesel would be available for agriculture and heavy transport.

The amount of lithium mines in Australia going into high volume production in the next few years will also drop battery prices significantly and electric vehicles will be very cost competitive with petrol/diesel vehicles.

We already have electric semi trailers under testing in Australia https://www.januselectric.com.au/
These trucks were already showing substantial savings compared to diesel before recent price hikes.

Our issue is not the availability of electric machines, are testing full electric trucks W Coast, AMAZON has full electric delivery vans and are Tesla Cars everywhere, HOWEVER our electrical system is in peril, plants are getting old, wind and solar are not cutting it as general Bulk delivery replacements, only new Nukes USA are in GA (2) with (2) in SC stopped newer fossil stations were built but the rants to get them closed are now working, and the newest wrinkle is Large Solar Arrays Reflect MASSIVE amounts of Heat BACK into the atmosphere causing warmer than expected regional temps around them. Nothing Humans EVER Do to "Fix" a problem have ever done more than exacerbate it or create worse.

Another type of fuel shortage looms over the US.
Is there something going on here that we've missed.

An updated list of USA-based destroyed Food Manufacturing Plants
1 ➖4/30/21 Monmouth Smithfield Foods pork processing plant
2 ➖7/25/21 Memphis Kellogg plant
3 ➖8/13/21 JBS beef plant
4 ➖8/24/21 Patak Meat Company
5 ➖7/30/21 Tyson River Valley ingredient plant
6 ➖10/21/21 Darigold plant
7 ➖11/15/21 Garrard County food plant
8➖11/29/21 Maid-Rite Steak Company
9➖12/13/21 San Antonio food processing, West side Foods
10➖1/7/22 Hamilton Mountain poultry processing Plant
11➖1/13/22 Cargill-Nutrene feed mill. Lacombe, La
12➖1/31/22 Winston-Salem fertilizer plant
13➖2/3/22 Wisconsin River Meats
14➖2/3/22 Percy dairy farm
15➖2/5/22 Wisconsin River Meats processing facility destroyed by fire in Mauston, Wisconsin.
16➖2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas
17➖2/15/22 Shearer's Foods Food processing plant explodes in Hermiston, Oregon.
18➖2/16/22 Indiana Louis-Dreyfus soy processing plant
19➖2/18/22 Bess View Farms
20➖2/19/22 Lincoln premiere poultry
21➖2/22/22 Shearer's Foods potato chip plant
22➖2/22/22 Fire destroys Deli Star Meat Plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.
23➖2/28/22 nutrient AG Solutions fertilizer facility burns
24➖2/28/22 Shadow Brook Farm & Dutch girl Creamery burns
25➖3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri
26➖3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
27➖3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware
28➖3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD
29➖3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA
30➖3/14/22 Wayne Hoover dairy farm, barn full of vows burns
31➖3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin
32➖3/16/22 Walmart Distribution Center burns for 76 hours in Plainfield Ind.
33➖3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas
34➖3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa
35➖3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware
36➖3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
37➖3/19/22 Walmart Food Distribution center catches fire in Plainfield, Indiana
38➖3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota
39➖3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
40➖3/24/22 Major Fire at McCrum Potato Plant in Belfast, Maine.
41➖3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
42➖3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa
43➖3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
44➖3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota
45➖3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa
46➖3/29/22 Maricopa, Az. Food Pantry burns down 50,000 pounds of Food destroyed in Maricopa, Arizona.
47➖3/31/22 Rio Fresh Onion factory damaged by fire in San Juan, Texas.
48➖3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa
49➖3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa
50➖4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
51➖4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
52➖4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
53➖4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
54➖4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska
55➖4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota
56➖4/13/22 Fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire.
57➖4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant
58➖4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
59➖4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.
60➖4/14/22 Salinas food processing plant
61➖4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
62➖4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota
63➖ 4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
64➖4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
65➖4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Colorado