Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells the AP
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The head of the International Energy Agency warns Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left. In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Fatih Birol expressed concerns about possible flight cancellations if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.

“In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world,” he said.

        • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
          112·
          10 hours ago

          I’d love to use trains, but they’re so much slower and way more expensive. A return journey cuts into some very precious, limited time off.

          I’m going to Berlin soon and I checked out the rail option first, it it’s just unfeasible.

          • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            10·
            7 hours ago

            This 100% is the problem with bad policy.

            Maybe it will get at least bit more possible after the new railway EU legislation passes this year but I am not that hopeful because they are just bunch of idiots flying business jets and don’t understand the problems there.

            Tbh it is big lobby by national railway companies like SNCF that slow the prgress way down, they should really pull out their heads from their asses and recognise that cross European travel isn’t that much competition.

          • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            If rail could be cheaper I’d take the time to use it. But when a flight takes for hours is significantly cheaper it’s hard to justify 12 hours on a train or more

          • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
            322·
            9 hours ago

            Berlin?! What sort of a awful place you live that you want to go to Berlin? Its just gray and concrete, horrible place.

            • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              6·
              8 hours ago

              Visited recently and I loved it! Met so many nice people and visited so many interesting things. And I come from a very pretty city. ;)

              • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
                11·
                8 hours ago

                I must have upset some Berliners with my silly joke :D Funny how I got upvotes when making the same joke about France :–D

                Anyway, I’m glad you liked it. But in these trying times, I’d suggest people to travel more locally. But as a misanthrope, the faster we burn ourselves off the planet, the better it is for the fishes and whatnot =D

                • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
                  3·
                  8 hours ago

                  My friend lives in the Netherlands, and we don’t see each other very often. It’s for a big birthday celebration for myself so it’s a bit of a one off trip, I’ve always wanted to go to Berlin. I think my last trip away was possibly 10 years ago!

                • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                  1·
                  8 hours ago

                  I agree, local travel is the way. I went there by train, so I guess that still counts. :D But I would wish train travel would be more affordable and EASY. So complicated to book trains which go borders. You really have to know all the tricks to get a good price. But I will train interrail that summer I think, let’s see how that goes.

                  • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
                    1·
                    8 hours ago

                    Yeah I really wished there was some EU wide train system thing that would make things faster and less complicated. In fact, I’m baffled how that wasn’t done decades ago. One of the best ways to deal with climate change and bringing down emissions would be to subsidize, simplify and make things easier with rail travel. But we are lead by donkeys, so whatddyagonnado you know

        • StillAlive@piefed.worldEnglish
          106·
          10 hours ago

          How tf am I going to travel from India to Singapore? Or Vietnam? Or France?

          (Not actually going anywhere but giving examples)

          • leave_it_blank@lemmy.worldEnglish
            223·
            10 hours ago

            Don’t. Or pay premium. If it’s business let the company pay for it. If not, maybe just don’t go.

            • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              I mean, realistically, countries won’t run out. Ticket prices will rise and price out some users.

              goes looking

              There are also apparently a few large propeller-driven planes still out there that use aviation gasoline. Gasoline prices are also up, but I assume not as badly as jet fuel, given that diesel prices are up more than gasoline and jet fuel is close to diesel.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-6

              That’s still in use, technically can do a New York-London flight (though I imagine that in real life, you’d stop in Reykjavik to maintain a safety buffer), and uses aviation gasoline. It’s got a cruising speed of 315 mph, though, compared to a (jet-based) Boeing 777’s 554 mph.

              EDIT: Oh, but the only DC-6s that are still in use are in a cargo configuration.

              EDIT2: Red Bull apparently operates one DC-6 in a passenger configuration.

          • bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish
            36·
            9 hours ago

            The example you need is called Zoom, or face time or… Really this is just covid all over again.

            edit: Wow, that’s a surprising amount of hostility. The fossil fuel world is ending, do people not realize this?

            • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              The fossil fuel world isn’t going anywhere. As soon as supply is restored no one will have learned anything and nothing will be done to reduce reliance.

              • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
                1·
                7 hours ago

                Official Eiffel Tower website:

                https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/recreation/virtual-tour-eiffel-tower

                On the occasion of the Eiffel Tower’s 130th anniversary, TV5 Monde created a 360° virtual reality tour that reveals every aspect of the Tower in 3 minutes, featuring sunrise from the Champ-de-Mars and a panoramic ascent to the top, both inside and out. See the Eiffel Tower as if you were there, and much more! TV5 Monde takes you beyond the summit and behind the scenes to discover an unrivaled view of the French capital.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8

                Though…hah. They don’t allow viewing it in the US. Very French.

                investigates

                country list 
                $ yt-dlp 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8'
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8
[youtube] hWKb5r-UMt8: Downloading webpage
[youtube] hWKb5r-UMt8: Downloading android vr player API JSON
ERROR: [youtube] hWKb5r-UMt8: The uploader has not made this video available in your country
This video is available in Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan,
Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Albania, Armenia, Angola, Antarctica,
Argentina, American Samoa, Austria, Australia, Aruba, Åland Islands,
Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium,
Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Saint Barthélemy,
Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Plurinational State of, Bonaire,
Sint Eustatius and Saba, Brazil, Bahamas, Bhutan, Bouvet Island,
Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Congo, the
Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo,
Switzerland, Côte d'Ivoire, Cook Islands, Chile, Cameroon, China,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cape Verde, Curaçao, Christmas Island,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Djibouti, Denmark, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Western Sahara,
Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, Fiji, Falkland Islands (Malvinas),
Micronesia, Federated States of, Faroe Islands, France, Gabon, United
Kingdom, Grenada, Georgia, French Guiana, Guernsey, Ghana, Gibraltar,
Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Equatorial Guinea, Greece,
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Guatemala, Guam,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
Honduras, Croatia, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Isle of
Man, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Iraq, Iran, Islamic
Republic of, Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Kenya,
Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Korea,
Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Cayman
Islands, Kazakhstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Saint
Lucia, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Moldova, Republic of,
Montenegro, Saint Martin (French part), Madagascar, Marshall Islands,
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia,
Macao, Northern Mariana Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Montserrat,
Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique,
Namibia, New Caledonia, Niger, Norfolk Island, Nigeria, Nicaragua,
Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, Nauru, Niue, New Zealand, Oman, Panama,
Peru, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan,
Poland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Pitcairn, Puerto Rico, Palestine,
State of, Portugal, Palau, Paraguay, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Serbia,
Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles,
Sudan, Sweden, Singapore, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da
Cunha, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, San
Marino, Senegal, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, Sao Tome and
Principe, El Salvador, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Syrian Arab
Republic, Swaziland, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, French Southern
Territories, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tokelau, Timor-Leste,
Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Tonga, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu,
Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Ukraine,
Uganda, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan,
Holy See (Vatican City State), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin
Islands, U.S., Viet Nam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, Yemen,
Mayotte, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
You might want to use a VPN or a proxy server (with --proxy) to workaround.

                I guess you could use a VPN with an exit node in Europe or a US territory — which, oddly-enough, they do allow — or something.

                EDIT: Here’s a link that bounces through Canada and can view it:

                https://inv.thepixora.com/watch?v=hWKb5r-UMt8

          • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
            55·
            10 hours ago

            Why the hell would you want to go to France?!

            Jokes aside, boats, ships, trains, buses, bicycle, hitchhiking, kayaking, walking, crawling, doing cartwheels. Theres a whole bunch of options.

            Or you could just stay home or travel locally until the situation improves.