Monday marks seven months since the U.S.-Iran war began, which has restricted oil and gas exports from the Middle East, raising prices ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
I’m pretty sure the government has a hand in things since we’d grind to a halt pretty quickly (lots of things move by truck, farming requires diesel, and plenty of trains, particularly in rural areas, are diesel-electric). I don’t know any detail, though.
Japan is extremely sensitive to diesel prices and shortages. The government maintains about 200 days’ worth of 100% operations capacity reserves in order to mitigate any supply issues or price fluctuations.
As is Australia, we consume more diesel per capita then any other country on earth and don’t have a strategic reserve located on shore, we have small amount in some rented space in the US.
While some leeway should be given to the argument we’re a big country with a small population and moving shit around is problematic and energy intensive, we’ve not invested in electrification of rail transport or trains at all (we recently abandoned a 1/2 completed inland rail project)and have indeed gone the other way for 50 years and just built roads.
That’s surprising. Do you know why that is?
I’m pretty sure the government has a hand in things since we’d grind to a halt pretty quickly (lots of things move by truck, farming requires diesel, and plenty of trains, particularly in rural areas, are diesel-electric). I don’t know any detail, though.
Japan is extremely sensitive to diesel prices and shortages. The government maintains about 200 days’ worth of 100% operations capacity reserves in order to mitigate any supply issues or price fluctuations.
As is Australia, we consume more diesel per capita then any other country on earth and don’t have a strategic reserve located on shore, we have small amount in some rented space in the US.
While some leeway should be given to the argument we’re a big country with a small population and moving shit around is problematic and energy intensive, we’ve not invested in electrification of rail transport or trains at all (we recently abandoned a 1/2 completed inland rail project)and have indeed gone the other way for 50 years and just built roads.