Iran War & Fuel Rationing – are “Energy Lockdowns” on the way?
Kit Knightly
The war in Iran is having the impact that most people with any sense knew it would have: The price of oil is going up, and the supply of oil is going down.
Of course, whether or not the latter of these is actually true we will never know, and it’s beside the point. Oil companies will natural take the slightest excuse to price gouge and contrive scarcity for the basest of profit motives.
It also serves a political motive as well, since we know the global political machinery is –
against free travel
against fossil fuels and
against people being able to afford basically anything.
Which is of course another reason – we could say the ultimate real reason – why the head of BP is screaming about fuel rationing…
UK should brace for fuel rationing over Iran war crisis, former BP chief warns Starmer
Sri Lanka and Thailand have already brought in rationing measures. In Vietnam they will be grounding flights, beginning in April, due to jet fuel shortages.
On Friday it was reported that a “global fuel shortage may be just days away”.
Pakistan, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Thailand have also instituted remote work for government employees.
In Denmark, it’s not policy yet, only a suggestion. With government ministers begging – “please, please, please” – not to drive and to reduce their energy usage at home. Australia is going the panic-buying-causes-shortages route.
Bloomberg is warning that the fuel crisis may threaten the global food supply.
It’s all kinda familiar isn’t it…
In case you’re not picking up what we’re putting down here, the Financial Post is warning that…
Oil prices could get high enough to force a COVID-level lockdown
…yeah.
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“… we know the global political machinery is –
against free travel
against fossil fuels and
against people being able to afford basically anything.”
Then why are misc companies busy searching for offshore oil in Norway?
Is it wise to mention a “COVID-level lockdown”? I would have thought that by this time – and despite the terminal dumbasses – there would be enough who now see through the Covid Cavalcade to sink any such rhetoric.
La relation spéciale
https://uk.investing.com/news/economy-news/trump-says-macron-willing-to-help-unblock-strait-of-hormuz-93CH-4561123
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that French President Emmanuel Macron is willing to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking at a White House event, Trump said he spoke with Macron on Sunday about the situation. The U.S. president said Secretary of State Marco Rubio would announce the names of countries willing to aid the United States in the effort.
Trump expressed surprise with the United Kingdom’s initial response, saying he was not happy with the UK. He added that he thinks the UK may become involved in the coalition.
The U.S. president has previously invited other countries to participate, arguing that it is in everyone’s interest to ensure the strait is safe for the passage of tankers.
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Economic Sabotage
Are you seeing the pattern?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqyyly9v8o
10 March 2026
Volkswagen has said it will cut 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 as its profits dropped to their lowest level since 2016.
“Australia is going the panic-buying-causes-shortages route.”
Yes, petrol is the new toilet paper. (Remember the great toilet paper shortage of 2020? 🙂
Of course, it’s a gigantic con. Petrol prices skyrocketed here in Victoria days before the first bombs fell, and we supposedly ran out of oil about a week in. Who here believes that our incompetent government could be that incompetent?!
If 20% of the world’s oil must pass through the Strait of Hormuz, then that leaves 80% unaffected by closure of this key waterway. I know it’s not as simple as that, as oil does not flow freely across national borders, but still I wonder: How is it that the Western world is losing its collective mind over a relatively minor pinch?
And with the US producing so much oil that it is a net exporter of oil, why have gas prices shot up over there?
The headlines here in Victoria for the past couple of days have included dire reports of rural towns running out of petrol entirely. The residents are supposedly blaming the city folk, the unspoken solution sounding suspiciously like how a “smart city” is supposed to run.
Funny you should mention this… The penal colony called Australia has the blueprint already.
Following the 1973 oil embargo, the UK government faced severe fuel shortages, leading to the distribution of petrol ration books to all motorists on November 29, 1973, as a precautionary measure. Though voluntary driving reductions, 50mph speed limits, and supply cuts were implemented, formal, mandated coupon usage for petrol was ultimately avoided as supply issues eased by March 1974
Petrol rationing in Australia during the early 1980s was triggered by severe industry strikes, rather than wartime shortages, leading to states like South Australia and New South Wales passing emergency legislation in 1980 and 1981. Measures included odd-even, minimum/maximum sales, and threatened coupon use to manage limited supplies
1980 Acts: South Australia passed the “”Motor Fuel Rationing Bill”” in April 1980 due to strikes.
1981 Crisis: NSW introduced a $4 minimum and $8 maximum purchase limit in October 1981, with odds-and-evens systems enforced by licence plate numbers.
Staycations sold as safe and effective in an overpriced caravan park for the plebs.
It is all a brilliant ruse…
The actual goal is decentralisation and the return to sustainable systems of sustenance based on small scale local ecologies.
.
Whose goal is THAT?!
Iran is now letting a whole swathe of nations oil tankers safe passage through the Straits of Hormuz, such as Egypt, Pakistan China and others, apparently those nations that are NOT aiding and abetting Israel and USA, in illegally attacking Iran or hosting the planes and missile launchers, used against Iran, will be allowed to sail their oil tankers through the straits.
But I see quite clearly how any government could quickly become more authoritarian – and use the fuel shortage to impose strict laws on its citizens, such a no travel policy, ie a work from home policy, but without the masks, a stay off the streets after say 10pm policy.
Worse still – and I think it might happen is false flag attacks blamed on Iran, a for instance is that the USA has created a clone of the Iranians very successful Shahed drone, its called the Lucas drone, it looks remarkably like a Shahed drone, that could be used in a fag flag attack on US soil, which would allow Trump and his admin to clamp down seriously – on free speech and movement, using false flag attacks as the impetus.
I appreciate your term: “… fag flag…”
Well if nothing I’m at least original.
And Greta now loves Big Oil !
To live free from siege and economic sabotage.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u9vm273Qoyg
Kit. you hit the nail on the head again. As you always do. Love it!
Except for:
Dill, Baby, Drill !