Hope that gets Europe to invest in renewables and leave oil behind.
Hasn't Germany and the UK been investing in renewables for years now? They must be feeling pretty happy about that decision right now unlike oil obsessed countries like the US.
Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah as if Europe doesn't have Oil it isn't exploiting because of renewable legislation..
Europe simply does not have enough known oil reserves to put a dent in current prices even if it exploited them all. There may still be good arguments to do so anyway, such as it being less carbon intensive than importing oil, but there is absolutely no magic lever we can pull that would fix this problem that we're just not pulling due to renewables legislation.
Sure just send the continental german army straight for the oil fields, worked out great last time.
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#14The local farmers came with 1000l+ tanks for diesel, foreigners with multiple gas cans, etc., and the local logistics couldn't handle the pressure.
Foreigners were coming to Slovenia just to buy gas? In such quantities that it strained infrastructure?
That definitely sounds like something that happened.
As if "multiple gas cans" wouldn't still be well under the 50 liter/day limit.
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#15Hope that gets Europe to invest in renewables and leave oil behind.
Electric cars aren't cheap, and electricity prices are very high in Europe.
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#16Ah yes, shared fuel resources controlled by the government. Sociafluel
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#17Hope that gets Europe to invest in renewables and leave oil behind.
Europe has no (meaningful amounts of economically viable to extract) lithium either.
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#18So... why is fuel 25% cheaper in Slovenia than in the neighbouring country while Solvenia is simultaneously having issues with running out of fuel?
Seems like the obvious solution is to raise prices so people stop driving to your country (wasting fuel, ironically) to take your cheap fuel instead of just paying for the fuel in their own country. More than that it's a solution the free market would actually find on its own...
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#20The local farmers came with 1000l+ tanks for diesel, foreigners with multiple gas cans, etc., and the local logistics couldn't handle the pressure.
Did they not have rationing based on odd/even number plates in 1980s?