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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.
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can we stop calling it iran war and start calling it usa and israels expansionist war?
To be fair, we usually also call it Ukraine war instead of Russo-Ukranian war or just Russian invasion or Russia Expansionist war. Makes it not less wrong, but you need to admit Iran war is a little shorter than your suggestion.
Names with the same or fewer syllables as “Iran War”:
- Ego War
- Fossil Farce ^(you could take that a couple different ways hehe)
- Epstein War
- F*ck Kids War
- U! S! [eagle screech that sounds like “A!”, except it’s not an eagle it’s a hawk, because eagles don’t screech like that]
- Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Bananuclear? War
I am partial to “Operation Epstein Fury” or OEF2
Vietnam War
Iraq War
Ukraine War
Iran War
It’s just a continuation of the tradition of naming wars where a single country gets invaded by another after that country.
It’s almost like we name the war after the location where the fighting takes place.
Shorter is better, so how about UIE war? :D
Anyway it was more about calling it iran war makes it sound like iran started it
I see where you I coming from, but I think it is short for war in iran, which makes kind of sense. UIE war on the other hand is really hard to pronounce though lol
[you-ay-ee] war? :D
Epstein Files War? Wouldn’t wanna bait him with Trump War I
Technically, it’s the “Stop talking about the Trump and Epstein child rape crimes War”
Gulf War 3
This is a good time for the EU to get its shit together on their train networks. Make one central portal for booking trains Europe wide, remove the no fuel tax subsidies and no VAT for airlines and apply them for trains instead, and invest in a network of night trains.
The European Rail Passengers Union recently started and is looking to advocate for solutions to some of these issues.
This is great! I signed up to try to help. Thanks for sharing!
“Best we can do is Hydrogen jets”
So do people not understand that this is game over? We are in a zombie economy, it may still be walking but in reality it’s dead.
Even if the straits open tomorrow, planting season is ending with out the needed fertilizer. Smelters and pot lines for aluminum, iron and glass are going cold. They can’t just be restarted, cold idle make them giant bricks and damages them. Pharmaceutical manufacturing is shutting down, and also can’t just be restarted. Clean rooms must be re-certified before restart. Similar problems for micro chips production that uses helium from the gulf.
The global economy is having its Wiley E. Coyote moment. The floor is gone, but gravity isn’t doing its thing yet.
It’s fucking terrifying. And it makes me angry because it was all so avoidable. All the Untied States government had to do was enforce its fucking rules
Good. Excellent 👌
Why?
Less pollution. Maybe people will finally learn to use trains again.
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
How tf am I going to travel from India to Singapore? Or Vietnam? Or France?
(Not actually going anywhere but giving examples)
Don’t. Or pay premium. If it’s business let the company pay for it. If not, maybe just don’t go.
I mean, realistically, countries won’t run out. Ticket prices will rise and price out some users.
goes looking
There are also apparently a few large propeller-driven planes still out there that use aviation gasoline. Gasoline prices are also up, but I assume not as badly as jet fuel, given that diesel prices are up more than gasoline and jet fuel is close to diesel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-6
That’s still in use, technically can do a New York-London flight (though I imagine that in real life, you’d stop in Reykjavik to maintain a safety buffer), and uses aviation gasoline. It’s got a cruising speed of 315 mph, though, compared to a (jet-based) Boeing 777’s 554 mph.
EDIT: Oh, but the only DC-6s that are still in use are in a cargo configuration.
EDIT2: Red Bull apparently operates one DC-6 in a passenger configuration.
That’s missing the point of maybe we don’t need to travel indiscriminately?
Why the hell would you want to go to France?!
Jokes aside, boats, ships, trains, buses, bicycle, hitchhiking, kayaking, walking, crawling, doing cartwheels. Theres a whole bunch of options.
Or you could just stay home or travel locally until the situation improves.
The example you need is called Zoom, or face time or… Really this is just covid all over again.
edit: Wow, that’s a surprising amount of hostility. The fossil fuel world is ending, do people not realize this?
Video calling Eiffel Tower on WhatsApp is not a good alternative, imo
Official Eiffel Tower website:
https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/recreation/virtual-tour-eiffel-tower
On the occasion of the Eiffel Tower’s 130th anniversary, TV5 Monde created a 360° virtual reality tour that reveals every aspect of the Tower in 3 minutes, featuring sunrise from the Champ-de-Mars and a panoramic ascent to the top, both inside and out. See the Eiffel Tower as if you were there, and much more! TV5 Monde takes you beyond the summit and behind the scenes to discover an unrivaled view of the French capital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8
Though…hah. They don’t allow viewing it in the US. Very French.
investigates
country list
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EDIT: Here’s a link that bounces through Canada and can view it:
The fossil fuel world isn’t going anywhere. As soon as supply is restored no one will have learned anything and nothing will be done to reduce reliance.
World cup will be cancelled.
So it is all good news?
I can get only so wet pleaeese stap!
So it is all good news?
Because of a war started by the FIFA Peace Prize winner!
News keeps getting better.
Why? Players could take sailboats, games could be seen on screens at local stadiums, organized by cities. I hope it would be how future events go.
So corrupt Fifa would be fucked with their overpriced tickets AND bus fares to stadiums
So … maybe we should reduce the number of flights right now? And maybe check which flights are serving a real purpose and which are just flying people around who want to shop or get wasted.
Ban private and charter flights. Only high volume commercial flights
Did Europe thank the orange pedophile though?
The Epstein distraction war will have to stop.
Lot of people going to get stranded
Brothers in Arms will have to go Down to the Waterline with their Six Blade Knife to save us from Industrial Disease.
It’s not easy when the whole world runs on Heavy Fuel.
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road
Love the Dire Straits reference 🤘
All thanks to terrorists trump
So in six week we will have back out nights that were stolen some years ago by a dubious permission for night flights?
They said this 2 weeks ago. Forever running out, but never getting there
Few weeks ago it was a specific airline company CEO said that their specific company had 6 weeks of fuel left. Now its the head of International Energy Agency saying that the whole of Europe has 6 weeks of jet fuel left.
Two completely different things.
Same playbook: starve states until they not only bend the knee but kiss the dirt.
win
