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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Will the “global fuel shortage” stop the overlords from flying around in private planes as before?
If you are a hammer Kit, everything looks like a nail / lockdown.
Could be the government might seize upon widespread shoplifting as its excuse
to impose its built back better lockdown, should shoplifting become popular
among the lower classes as their response to the impact The Oli Crisis upon them.**
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/15/left-wing-activists-stage-nationwide-shoplifting-spree/
** Even though “right-wing activists” (and grannie) might join in, the corporate
propaganda media will still call all the activists “left-wing”. It’s par for the course…
So there I was following OffG on twitter in an argument with a hack covid/ anti-fossil fuel drone generator and I stumbled on this:
https://x.com/karamballes/status/2033456851426148483
Follow the link for an unbelievable “scientific” network analysis of how covid “disinfo” spreads. With scary diagrams.
Oh and the twitterer has links to superspook channel bylinetimes. Didn’t see thar one coming.
This covid shilling gang also extensively reference the World Socialist Web Site. It’s perfect Orwellian reversal, painting “covid denial” as a spook formation.
The supermarket chain stores in Australia will be supplied, because, as
during The Pandemic, they’ll be deemed ESSENTIAl… Small businesses ?
Well. they’re not essential…
One might expect, given the fragility of the global supply chains exposed
by the 2008 global financial meltdown, and, to an extent The Pandemic,
national government will decide to re-shore ‘essential’ industries…
Time to start a MAGA** movement in Australia ?
** MAGA – Make Australia Great Again…
Lookout Kit!!
tRump’s gunning for you. Literally:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-demands-death-penalty-for-reporters-in-unhinged-war-rant/?via=twitter_page
TRUMP’S FINANCIAL CONTROLLERS APPROVE OF HIS ACTS.
Some branch of TPTB are his direct controllers, reinforced by CIA.
Forces in addition to Netanyahu told Trump to start this war.
So we must conclude that all the following are wanted:
—Loss of US MidEast bases
—Continued depletion of American military readiness & supplies
—The cartoonish insulting & estrangement of all possible allies:
Scandinavia countries thru Greenland threats
Canada over & over & even freezing Canadian assets
Sneering at everyone for not confronting the Strait of Hormuz
Everyone thru tariffs
EU thru threats & insults
—Near-global energy crisis, possibly coming food crisis.
We don’t know how far this will be permitted to go. But when it is stopped
it may be that TPTB have gotten the results they wanted from the war.
Sometime before Trump’s first term part of an interview appeared on Mint Press. In it, being a blabber-mouth, Trump indicated that it had already been decided that he was going to be President, but just not whether it would be the next election or not. I believed him, but wondered WHY they would want HIM? Now I understand why: It would be difficult to ascribe to most people the acts, the speeches & the insults which it is easy to imagine are just a product of HIS personality. He was probably manipulated into sincerely doing it all. He’s the perfect patsy of the Controllers!
confronting the Strait of Hormuz
Exactly what would any military escort do to protect a merchant ship, and to get it past the 3 ships already sunk?
“Rationing – we’re all in this together”, though as George Orwell might
say, “those some deserve bigger rations than everyone else.”…
“…. though some deserve…”
The point no one seems to be getting is – the US was always supposed to lose. That was the whole point. The new globalist order has always involved ditching the US, crashing it and moving overseas to a nice new billet. This is what is in progress right now.
Covid was supposed to be the catalyst into globalism but they had to let it go because too many folks were waking up and cottoning on to the fact the governments of the whole bloody world were suddenly all in bed together and lying their asses of about the scamdemic, so they had to put the kibosh on that and start convincing people they were all enemies again by starting wars all over the place. And I guess at some point they got the idea of having another go at it, but this time they won’t make the mistake of making it too obvious they’re all in bed together, and war is the perfect cover for that.
So oops gorblimey Trump starts a stupid war and people assume it’s 2003 again and just totally miss the fake out, the big twist – America is going to lose this one. They’re going to be the bad guys and get reamed and the good guys are going to kick their asses and defeat empire and kickoff a new age. All the old US money pisses off to China and Russia and gets on with building the Great Reset and the 99% are so happy the empire’s gone they don’t realize they’ve been jiggered until it’s too late.
It’s happening right now boys and girls. Hold on to your hats.
That was the old US. However, the US went through regime change in 2016. This, now, is the new US.
Given that the new US is taking on the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy (aka Kissinger’s Multipolar World Order) it’s unlikely that it will conclusively win. However, it won’t come close to losing.
CIA confusion bot… go away.
This is how THEY live:
‘They wallow in unbridled hedonism. They go to private schools and have private health care. They are cocooned in self-referential bubbles by sycophants, publicists, financial advisers, lawyers, servants, chauffeurs, self-help gurus, plastic surgeons and personal trainers. They reside in heavily guarded estates and vacation on private islands. They travel on private jets and gargantuan yachts. They exist in another reality, what the Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank dubs the world of “Richistan,” a world of private Xanadus where they hold Nero-like bacchanalias, make their perfidious deals, amass their billions and cast aside those they use, including children, as if they are refuse. No one in this magic circle is accountable. No sin too depraved. They are human parasites. They disembowel the state for personal profit. They terrorize the “lesser breeds of the earth.” They shut down the last, anemic vestiges of our open society.’
Chris Hedges.
This is why wars continue.
The Beasts of insatiability Rule
President Trump sent out invitation to countries to help him start WW3, so far he has got no takers. Hormuz Dire Straits.
Pissed off that Iran is resisting his invitation to become a vassal state (again), President Trump has decided to bring Cuba to heel as compensation. Another scalp for his belt.
The new “Nato”!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl5jeg5r15o
11 March 2026
Teams of Ukrainian military experts have been sent to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to help them defend against drones being launched from Iran in retaliation for the massive US and Israeli air attacks.
Others are also helping the US defend its military presence in Jordan, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In a video address, Zelensky said Ukraine had “the greatest experience in the world in countering attack drones” – a reference to expertise built up over the more than four years of attacks by Russia on its neighbour.
Or: Dire Straits of Hormuz ?
UK also got the “invitation”, though Trump had claimed a week earlier that he did not UK involvement. He also added the insult that Starmer was no Churchill.
1973 Nobody remembers it. They rationed it with gas line down the block and around the corner. The corps made a killing. But eventually prices went low and they lost money for a while. I like when what goes around comes around.
The Empire of War Greed and Hypocrisy has lost another war:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/03/the-u-s-has-lost-the-war-whats-next/#more-167786
Slow learners or what?
I’ve seen so much smoke and air pollution around these bomb sites but haven’t heard a single thing about climate change….funny that! Where are these zealots now, whesrs Greta the Rothschild demon baby
Oil. Lubricating the coffers of the Fat Controllers.
Lockdowns are ideal for preventing angry crowds, armed with pitchforks
and shotguns, gathering, then marching on parliament house.
Fortunately for the politicians, there will be no petrol to make Molotov
Cocktails…
Australia’s Government For Social Cohesion cant decide
— “Rationing: Helping To Save Granny !” – or –
— “Rationing: Helping To Protect The Children !”**
** It goes without saying, both are (TM)
The War Against Iran will be eulogised as:
“The War That Saved The Planet from Global Warming” (TM)
Not sure if this is deliberate but… The article seems to imply end-to-end orchestration, with lockdown as a common goal. If not, my bad. If so, then this is pure, myopia-driven madness
I don’t think it’s myopia as much as centration. Could be deliberate relative to the lack of focus on and censorship, i.e., automatic pending, of the Greater Israel project and the role of the zee’s and their wealth and control. Better to say they’re all in on it to drive focus away from the real culprits.
There are reports of a new “flu virus” spreading throughout the US,
one it’s claim there’s no vaxxine for, even existing vaxx. As yet the
new flu virus hasnt been labeled “virulent” – but that labelling is only
a Press Release away from it becoming The Excuse for another
built back better (BBB) global lockdown …
“… 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?
Ask Grok. Grok Knows (Everything).
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.
Difference is that with the Covid lockdowns you could still travel domestically by car or public transport. Even international travel by plane was possible even if it meant jumping through a few hoops with PCR or antigen testing – which was easy to fake so long as you had a test identification number for the documentation, which didn’t actually mean needing to take the test. A rather nice loophole for those who figured it out.
However, if fuel is rationed and planes are grounded then travelling will become very difficult, unless willing to walk or cycle long distances. So them describing it as a “Covid-level lockdown” and the public seeing through it, still won’t make any difference. No fuel equals no travel.
Not really. The masses really haven’t woken up.
The masses are awake, and are awaiting a bellwether (aka – a Messiah)…
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.
—
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.
Cooked books. Economists and Book-keepers use every opportunity to act as crybabies.
Where’s Dictator Dan when we need him?
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.
If I were England I would send 5000 good British soldiers with officers out there to maintain a little order on this penalty Island of petty criminals and pocket thieves.
Gonna need more than four rifles, two drums, spears, swords and pretty costumes.
We’ve got attitude now!!!
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
That video has nothing to do with oil. It’s about Cuba. Greta is on Cuba’s side. Which is the right side. And she hates the you-know-whos, too. Hurray for Cuba, Hurray for Greta, Fie on that little shithole in the middle east that is causing all this.
She’s on the side of the Maoism-pushing overloads. And they understand that Maoism requires hydrocarbon fuels in order to function.
Kit. you hit the nail on the head again. As you always do. Love it!
He nailed it.
Except for:
Dill, Baby, Drill !
Fracking?
Indeed! It’s effectively banned in Europe. That ban being supported by the UK Fifth-Column in addition to the overt ecoloons.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/blogs/debi-evans-blog-13-september-2022
We must ensure that the monumental legacy of Ian R Crane, just honoured in Alternative View 12, continues. If you are not aware of Ian’s work to stop fracking, please do be sure to watch this short video and share it around.
Or, in the case of the MIC, ‘Kill Babies Kill’
ALL the power systems kill babies – and the vast majority of the populations go along with it!