We have between 20 & 27 days of physical onshore fuel stocks left. Here is an excellent guide written by the Wise Response Society to prepping for what's to come, should the fuel run out.
https://wiseresponse.substack.com/p/what-can-i-do-in-response-to-the?triedRedirect=true
A useful site of us and our neighbors:
18 days left of diesel is "good shape", he says.
National are banking on a just-in-time scenario where tankers dock and we're out of the deep end, at which point we will all be subject to grotesque gaslighting where they will fling open their prepared speeches whose TL;DR is 'See, we told you we had this sorted' and then parade on that self-congratulating flotilla into the next election, as the steely-tempered masters of the polycrisis.
This post (I know, on Reddit) explains in welcome detail why the situation is in fact far worse than the MBIE and gov are telling us. Because how and what they are telling us is detached from and or grossly skews the real picture.
The eerie silence of quiet roads. The local highway this morning was half the density of last week.
Based on our best available information, next week will be even quieter.
Notably most police, firetrucks, ambulances are ICE vehicles.
The ~3% EV civilian fleet will likely come under increased pressure and also opportunity. Carpooling, courier side hustles, emergency runs. Their utility will also mean increased theft; fuel theft for ICE's is already on the rise.
Collapsible Julian
