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.
Lot of people going to get stranded
can we stop calling it iran war and start calling it usa and israels expansionist war?
Technically, it’s the “Stop talking about the Trump and Epstein child rape crimes 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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
The global economy is having its Wiley E. Coyote moment. The floor is gone, but gravity isn’t doing its thing yet.
Good. Excellent 👌
Why?
Less pollution. Maybe people will finally learn to use trains again.
