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Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.
“In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world,” he said.
I’d love to use trains, but they’re so much slower and way more expensive. A return journey cuts into some very precious, limited time off.
I’m going to Berlin soon and I checked out the rail option first, it it’s just unfeasible.
This 100% is the problem with bad policy.
Maybe it will get at least bit more possible after the new railway EU legislation passes this year but I am not that hopeful because they are just bunch of idiots flying business jets and don’t understand the problems there.
Tbh it is big lobby by national railway companies like SNCF that slow the prgress way down, they should really pull out their heads from their asses and recognise that cross European travel isn’t that much competition.
Berlin?! What sort of a awful place you live that you want to go to Berlin? Its just gray and concrete, horrible place.
If rail could be cheaper I’d take the time to use it. But when a flight takes for hours is significantly cheaper it’s hard to justify 12 hours on a train or more